Hi, I looked at microfilms of St Johns records in National Library in Dublin. I may be wrong but I think National Library are only body with copy. Originals are in St Johns. U could ask secretary in St Johns to do a search with maybe a church donation as bait but its at their discretion. To view records in National Library u need permission from Bishop of Kerry. I think this can be done by fax on day but u can write to Bishops secretary before hand to be sure. Also note that microfilms in National Library only go as far as 1880 I think. If u have never seen catholic records before they are very difficult to read as entries are in latin. I've seen records from 3-4 parishes and St Johns were definately the most legable. Marriages easiest to search as there are less of them than births. Just scan for surnames (with possibly some spelling variations) amoungst the latin as suranmes werent translated to latin. Christian names however were but u can search web for lists of latin equivalents of Irish christian names. Regards, Fintan http://www.myirishancestry.com ----- Original Message ---- From: "Ptilley02@aol.com" <Ptilley02@aol.com> To: irl-kerry@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 18 June, 2007 12:31:35 AM Subject: [IRL-KERRY] St Johns, Tralee. Hello listers, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to find the records of St John's, Tralee. I have just seen on a web site that their records of from 1777. I have been looking for a marriage of Maurcie Collins and Mary O'Sullivan who had childred baptised in Tralee, the eldest that I have found is 1807 so I guess that the marriage was plus or minus 1800. So I was hoping to be able to look at St Joh's Records. Pat ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ___________________________________________________________ Web email has come of age. Don't settle for less than the All New Yahoo! Mail http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html