I am trying to find the birth record of my grandmother, Bertha or Bridgit Mara. Born 1880 to Timothy Cornelius Mara in County Kerry. Mother unknown. I found emigration records of them arriving in Boston in 1883 and settling in Holyoke, MA. I always knew my Grandmother as Bridgit, but early records show her as Bertha. I am trying to find Irish birth records to document my application for Irish citizenship. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful. Jack Clark [email protected]

Jack Have you tried the Kerry parish records online at www.irishgenealogy.ie Also if you haven't already done so you could search the Irish civil registration index for an birth entry for Bertha/ Bridgit. There is an entry for a Bridget O Meara born in the quarter Jul-Sep 1880 Killarney registration district Vol 5 page 301 that might be a possibility.But you would have to get a copy of the entry to see if it is the correct one. You can get the application form online at www.groireland.ie (photocopies of the entry give the same information as a cert but cost less) See Irish registration index http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordResults&placeId=8003252&alivePlaceLoc1=Kerry%2C%20Ireland&surname=Meara&searchType=close Hope this is of use Clare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Clark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:24 PM Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Timothy Cornelius Mara Bertha/Bridgit Mara >I am trying to find the birth record of my grandmother, Bertha or Bridgit > Mara. Born 1880 to Timothy Cornelius Mara in County Kerry. Mother > unknown. > I found emigration records of them arriving in Boston in 1883 and settling > in Holyoke, MA. I always knew my Grandmother as Bridgit, but early > records > show her as Bertha. > I am trying to find Irish birth records to document my application for > Irish > citizenship. > If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful. > > Jack Clark > [email protected] > > > > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the > Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a > wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is > at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 684 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message