This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WWC.2ACI/3742.1 Message Board Post: Hello Mike, You need to know where in County Kilkenny they were born, dates of birth, their parents names and religious denomination to find possible baptismal records in the local church registers. Church registers aren't computerised or centralised. There are no records in Ireland of who emigrated, where they went or what happened to them after emigration. There are no vital records in Ireland before 1864 (Protestant marriages in 1845). Vital records aren't computerised. They're in date order. There are no surviving census records for the 1800s. The first Irish census records are 1901 and 1911 and neither is computerised as yet. They're only available on microfilm. Ireland in Irish (Gaeilge) is spelled Éire. Erie would be a city in Pennsylvania or Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes in the US. Since 1949 when Ireland became a Republic the preferred reference is Republic of Ireland or Ireland when speaking English. Regards. Eilís O'Hara