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/YWC.2ACI/5392.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Sonja, To find Gordon Parker's birthdate and info as well as Freddie's marriage date and info you'd need to go through the Index of Irish Civil Registration Records. The Indexes are at the General Register Office Research Room in Dublin and I know the Indexes are also available on microfilm through LDS but I don't know how late the LDS records are since I don't use them. I use the original records in Dublin. I think the LDS records might be until 1926 but you'd need to check with LDS to see how far the microfilms go. That way at least you'd have the marriage and birth dates and could get copies of the actual certs to see what they say. Researching in Ireland is really no different than researching in the US. You need specific names, dates of events, places of events, etc. So you'd need to know the name of Jane's sister -- given name -- who married the Stinson and his given name, when they married and where they lived. it would really be impossible to find Jane's unnamed sister who married an unnamed Stinson on an unknown date and with an unknown location. There are Stephensons listed in the Leitrim 1901 census which have some names you've mentioned: Drumduff North Townland, Kiltoghert Civil Parish, Leitrim Barony, William Stephenson 65 farmer Isabella 61 -James 27 -John 23 -William McLean 30 son in law/farmer/married. Barr of Farrow Townland, Cloonclare Civil Parish, Drumahaire Barony, John Stephenson 54 farmer Maria 46 -William 20 -Fannie 18 -John 15 -Eliza Anne 11 Barrs West Townland, Cloonclare Civil Parish, Drumahaire Barony: Robert Stephenson 59 farmer Sarah 38 wife/born Co. Fermanagh, Thomas 1 Frances Ormsby 24 relative But without specific dates of birth and places where Isabelle/Isabella, Henry, Fannie and Harriet Stinson lived and when it would be quite difficult to find any possible information about them. There is a Thomas Stephenson living in West Bars in Glenfarne who might be able to help. You could write to him and see if he knows anything about the Stephenson family ancestry. You could also look at the 1911 Leitrim census records for the locations where the Parker and Stephenson families lived to get further detail about them that might further your research. The microfilms are available on order through LDS. Eilís O'Hara