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/3734.1 Message Board Post: There aren't any emigration records in Ireland. There are no census records for the 1800s. Vital records begin in 1864 except Protestant marriages in 1845. Vital records aren't computerised. You need to know where Jeffrey Brennan was born in County Kilkenny to find what church might have his baptismal record. Jeffrey is a somewhat unusual given name for Ireland and would be rarely found here. Church registers aren't computerised or centralised -- the same as the US. You need to know the specific location of birth to find the church record. You'd also need to already know where Patrick and Mary Brennan married to find the church marriage record -- unless they were Protestant and married after 1845 when there might be a civil marriage record -- and you would also need to know when each one died to find any death record for their dates of death. There might be a civil one if they died after 1864 but many churches kept no burial records. So you need to research any of the emigrants records in the US to find the specific location of their births in County Kilkenny.