Hi Pat, I have worked with a couple of people at the Tralee library and they were very helpful, though ultimately unsuccessful. I am going to email them and tell them I'll be there in October--I'm looking forward to finally meeting them! I have an LDS library about 15 miles away so will put in my order. Do you know if it will give me the name of other children? If not, it probably won't be very helpful. I have heard from others that Kerry airport is the one but wondered if it was worth seeing Cork (even if it is only driving out of and into) since I will be so close! I will go ahead and book the flight to Kerry and do Cork on another visit. Thanks, Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: PMcH532@aol.com To: donnarussell5@comcast.net Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Trip to Killarney Hi Donna, I saw your post about your trip to Killarney and thought I'd tell you to check out the library there. Here's the website with the Kerry library branches listed. Just click on Killarney and you can email them. http://www.kerrycountylibrary.com/ I emailed the Tralee library and asked if they had any catholic church records for Currow and Knocknagoshel which is where my ancestors are from. Michael Costello emailed me back and said they had the baptismal and marriage records for Currow there which were freely available but that the Knocknagoshel records were held at the catholic church (St. Mary's) in Knocknagoshel. I know that to search these records at the church I'll need a letter from the Bishop of Kerry so I emailed him and am waiting for the letter to arrive in snail mail giving his permission. Hopefully it will get to me before we leave for Ireland on Sept. 10. We'll only have a limited time to do research on our trip which is mainly for golf but I looked up some possible places to visit or get information from if I have time. Kerry Genealogical Society 119 120 Rock Street Tralee, County Kerry 066-21200 (calls within Ireland) Kerry Diocesean Genealogical Center % Fr. Ciaran O'Shea Castleisland, County Kerry 066 41598 (within Ireland) You said that you found a baptism in the Family Search database that could possibly be your g uncle. If you found this information on the Family Search website of the Family History Library than those batch numbers are for the microfilm which has the records of his birth on it and other information about parents, etc. Find the closest Family History Library and call them to order the microfilm and when it comes in go and view it on their microfilm machines. Ask whoever you talk to for help ordering the correct film number. It takes about three or four weeks for them to get it from Salt Lake City and it costs you about $5. Then it's available to you for 2 to 4 weeks. I've done it and the people we very nice and helpful. If he is your g uncle it should give you the info you need. By the way, the Kerry airport is only 11 miles from Killarney so that's the airport you should use. The Cork is 56 miles away. That's too far. Good luck and I hopes this helps you in some way. Pat McHale looking forward to my own trip to the 'old sod'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com.