HI Kathy, It depends. The FHL has the church records of several RC parishes from Co. Kildare on micorfilm. Go to www.familysearch.org. Click on Search. Then click on Library Catalog. The oldest records are for Allen Parish, going back to 1820. Other parishes such as Carragh, Kildare, Staplestown, Clane and Rathscoffey don't go as far back. The microfilm number you want is 926104 I think. You might want to write to the Kildare Heritage Center, too. I wrote them for an initial search, and once they found my family had been located in Killmeague in Allen Parish, I was able to continue the research on my own through the FHL. As of a couple of years ago, my understanding was that all the records from all the Parishes had been turned in to the Center except for one Parish in the north of the county. I have seen the address of the Parish Priest on the list. You can write him directly. He did not want to turn over his records to the Center because he thought they were making a lot of money off of them. Of course, they weren't. The link to the Kildare Heritage Center is: http://www.kildare.ie/library/kildareheritage/ Colleen Colleen

Dear Colleen, How did you get to the film number of Allen Parish? I tried but only got so far as the list of church records; the page says there is no circulation to local FHC's and it does not go further into the listing to show individual parishes. Did you do something else? The film notes only get as far as the general list film number, which is not the one you refer to. Kevin Kerwin ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Irl-Kildare] Research in County Kildare pre-1849 > HI Kathy, > > It depends. The FHL has the church records of several RC parishes from Co. > Kildare on micorfilm. Go to www.familysearch.org. Click on Search. Then click > on Library Catalog. The oldest records are for Allen Parish, going back to > 1820. Other parishes such as Carragh, Kildare, Staplestown, Clane and > Rathscoffey don't go as far back. > > The microfilm number you want is 926104 I think. > > You might want to write to the Kildare Heritage Center, too. I wrote them > for an initial search, and once they found my family had been located in > Killmeague in Allen Parish, I was able to continue the research on my own through the > FHL. As of a couple of years ago, my understanding was that all the records > from all the Parishes had been turned in to the Center except for one Parish > in the north of the county. I have seen the address of the Parish Priest on > the list. You can write him directly. He did not want to turn over his records > to the Center because he thought they were making a lot of money off of them. > Of course, they weren't. > > The link to the Kildare Heritage Center is: > > http://www.kildare.ie/library/kildareheritage/ > > Colleen > > > > Colleen > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >