Hi Barbara, I'm just getting started in Ireland too, but since I found a few websites the other week, I'm completely obsessed. For Co. Mayo, http://www.mayoancestors.com/default.aspx?DepartmentID=MA allows you to search marriage records by the names of both spouses or either spouse. You do have to enter a year though. http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com allows you to search across Ireland (although a few counties haven't digitized their records yet), and there are very few entries for Jane Ryder plus variants, so that's very lucky!: Church Marriage Ryder Jane 1833 Co. Mayo Church Marriage Ryder Jane 1833 Co. Galway - No John Malley in Galway that year. Church Marriage Rider Jane 1846 Co. Mayo Civil Marriage Ryder Jane 1878 Co. Mayo - too late Church Marriage Ryder Jane 1878 Co. Mayo - too late Church Marriage Malley John 1833 Co. Mayo Church Marriage Maly John 1846 Co. Mayo Then on the county specific site at http://mayo.brsgenealogy.com/ you can search through the individual parishes to narrow things down: 1833 Jane Ryder Mayo entry: Parish: AGLISH RC PARISH (RC), no John Malley that year 1846 Jane Ryder Mayo entry: Parish: BACKS/KNOCKMORE (RC), no John Malley that year So unless one of them was transcribed wrong or married under a different name it looks like your couple did not get married in Mayo! Looking further: >From the mayoancestors site I can see that the 1846 Jane Rider married Terence Rotchford (by searching just for Jane in 1846). And that 1833 Jane married Michael Malley. Is it possible that your John Malley had a second name or changed his name later in life? Do you know the names and approx ages of any children that might've been born to them in Ireland to help correlate, or their ages at death in the US that could possibly rule out the 1833 marriage if they would've been too young then? Anyway, hope this helps! Rachel ----------------------------------- Message: 7 My 3great grandparents were Jane Ryder and John O'Malley from County Mayo. They show up on the 1860 US census in Cincinnati, Ohio, so they emigrated before 1860 and were married in Ireland. Their death certs say only County Mayo. I'd like to find their townland in Co. Mayo and connections in Ireland. Isn't there a way to do a comparison of households in Co. Mayo prior to 1860 that had the names O'Malley and Ryder? Thanks in advance to anyone who can advise me. Barbara in St. Louis, Missouri USA