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/5425.1 Message Board Post: You need to find Patrick Mahon's parents names and where he was born in County Leitrim to find a possible baptismal record in the local church register. There was no civil registration in Ireland before 1864 and so there would be no birth record. There are no census records for the 1800s. The local parish register for Patrick's birthplace would be the location to find his possible baptismal record. So you first need to find his parents names from his US records. If you can't find his place of birth in his US records, then you can have Leitrim Heritage research the records county wide to find a possible baptismal record. Since he had 5 children also presumably born in Leitrim, their civil and church marriage and death records in the US would be the sources to find their birthplace in the county . They may not all have been born in the same location and Patrick may not have been born in the same place as his children.