It is my understanding that the Ministers, Parish Priests etc, would travel to the smaller Canadian communities to do the Baptisms. Therefore, many Baptism records would be recorded at one time - each month. They may not have know the actual birth date. Liz in sunny Space Coast Florida In a message dated 9/16/2010 4:09:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Nancy: Your answers so far may be right, however the church records I received, not only in Ireland, but later in Canada, are baptisimal dates. Sometimes the birth date is also noted with the baptisimal date, in the church register, but not always. Baptisms could occur a couple of days to a month after the birth. One situation I have in Canada is the first four children being baptized on the same date in 1859 with estimated ages being from five to a few months. Andy in Kitchener, Canada _______________ --------------- 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