Tom I wish all churches would do this, I do think that in the Catholic Church the priest, say, in the brides parish is supposed to write to inform the priest in the grooms parish that the marriage is going to take place. In a catholic marriage you have to show your baptism certificate to prove you were baptized in a catholic church and I suppose they are just checking on this. But it does make it much easier for family history researchers. My daughter is married to a Brazilian of Italian descent and the girls are named after the mother as well as the father and it makes genealogy much easier. Best wishes Moira On 21 Mar 2008, at 03:02, Tom LaPorte wrote: > Hi Moira > > We haven't talked for a while. I've been busy in other counties. > > I think it is a great thing that the parishes recorded events from > other > parishes as in your case where the marriage in another country was > added > to the baptism record. In my case, researching my family in co. Laois > (Queen's county back then), I found a reference in the local church > register for an Uncle who had died and was buried in Dunleckney, co. > Carlow, quite a ways away. I just thought that was interesting but > eventually checked the Dunleckney register and found several other > family entries including my direct ancestor's missing baptismal > record. > I would never have checked there if the Dunleckney burial hadn't been > recorded in the register back home at the family church in Queen's > county. That was one of my biggest breaks ever. A little more > research > and I established that the family had lived there for 7 years just > prior > to taking passage to Canada from nearby New Ross. > > Tom > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-LIMERICK- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message