If your folks were Protestants there are records starting in 1845, if not, then 1865. If you are near a Morman FHC, you can rent the index to births, marriages, deaths and save yourself the wait & the search fee. Once you have the volume & page from the index, you can rent the film with the actual record. My FHC has the indexes and I am going tomorrow, so if you want a few names searched, I will do it for nothing. Joan David O'Daly wrote: > The fire in 1922 destroyed the existing pre-1901 censuses > (e.g.1821,1831,1841) held at the PRO in Dublin, and I think many old wills, > but not the civil registration records from 1.1.1864. I was able to get > copies of birth, death, marriage register entries back to 1864 for Monaghan, > by asking for a search by post and waiting three weeks or so. They search a > year or two back and forward of a date, and need some information on the > name to be able to supply a copy of the register entry or a certificate > copy. They will supply a leaflet if you write to Joyce House, giving details > of services and charges. Best wishes, David O'Daly. > > >From: Sandra Whittaker <elmoilsw@telusplanet.net> > >Reply-To: IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com > >To: IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: IRL-MONAGHAN-D Digest V00 #16 > >Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:21:07 -0800 > > > >I am confused, I thought that since the 'record office' had burnt in 1922 > >there > >were no records - or were those only the records for Northern Ireland? And > >if > >so, would the records for the Parish of Errigal Trough, Emyvale, Glaslough, > >Tonynumery, etc. be in Dublin or Belfast? So if I had an ancestor born in > >1865 > >or married in 1865 in Co. Monaghan I could write the address below and get > >the > >certificate? What about searches? Thanks for your help, Sandra Whittaker > >(Northern Alberta, Canada) > > > > > >"Jean L. Mattox" wrote: > > > > > As far as I know, there is no ancestry centre in Co. Monaghan where you > >can > > > gather family histories or records. > > > Birth Certificates may be obtained from > > > Office of the Register General > > > Joyce House > > > 8-11 Lombaard Street East > > > Dublin 2 > > > Republic of Ireland > > > > > > The fee is 5.5 Irish pounds plus 1.5 pounds for postage. > > > The current conversion is about $1.20 per Irish pound - but that changes > > > daily. Your bank will charge you an arm & a leg to exchange your dollars > > > for pounds but I know of no other way. You could write to ask about > >using a > > > credit card. I've no knowledge about that. > > > Send all info you have in order to give them a better chance to find the > > > cert you want. > > > > > > The records began in 1863 by Brit Decree, so, you won't get birth certs > >but > > > you may have someone else in your line (a sibling?) that was born > >anytime > > > during or after 1863. > > > > > > The names you have don't sound Irish. Were they, perhaps, Scots? What > > > church do you s'pose they attended? Some of the RC church records have > >been > > > filmed. That's how I found my family in Carrrickmacross. > > > Have you checked the LDS catalog online to see if they have any info > >that > > > might help you? > > > > > > www.familysearch.org > > > jean > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== IRL-MONAGHAN Mailing List ==== > If you'd like to read all previous messages that have been sent to this > list, go to the archives of the list that are located at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/IRL-MONAGHAN-L/ > and > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=irl-monaghan