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/5382.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Ross, Leitrim Genealogy is a research service for County Leitrim which provides fee-based research services. It's not an online source for you to research from Cloone RC Church registers, for example. Its list of parish registers and dates are the registers which the Genealogy Centre itself has access to and which they use for their fee-based research service. However, if you do want to research Cloone RC registers, even though you haven't as yet determined from Mary and her children's civil and church records in the US who her parents were and the town/townland where she was born in County Leitrim, you can look at those registers yourself on microfilm on order through a LDS Family History Centre. It's film#1279223 item 12-14 but verify those numbers through LDS before ordering. The LDS charge $5.50 (US currency) for each film. Alternately, you can complete research in Mary's civil and church records in the US to find her parents names as well as her specific place of birth in County Leitrim. The records would include: a) Mary's civil and church marriage and death records, her obituary, cemetery record, will and possibly her US naturalisation records if she personally applied for US citizenship. b) Her children's civil and church birth, baptism, marriage and death records which may include her place of birth in County Leitrim. If you also believe Thomas and Patrick Fox might be her brothers, you can also research their civil and church records in the US, as well as their children's, (see list above for all), in addition to Thomas and Patrick's US naturalisation records, to identify Thomas and Patrick's parents names and place of birth in Ireland, i.e.the town/townland, civil parish and county. All the siblings -- if they are indeed siblings -- may not have been born in the same location. The siblings may also appear as sponsors for their other siblings marriages or even the baptisms of their respective children which may be another indication of their family relationship. Once you have the specific location(s) of birth and parents names, you can then identify if available church registers for that location might indeed include their baptismal information as well as where and how those registers might be accessed. Regards. Eilís O'Hara Ireland