On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jocelyn Braddell <[email protected]> wrote: > The Passport Office is no longer recognizing the babtism of a child in > Ireland as legitimating an Irish person when born abroad. Hi Joyce, thanks for telling us. My mams grandparents were born Co Wicklow, she will be gutted to hear that as she is longng to get an authentic baptsm record so he can have Irish ctzenship. At least now she wont be dissapointed by my efforts now. I feel for all those who are busy collecting costly evidence for that reason. And I say that in our hearts we are Irish as I stood no chance as my mam would have had to have got herself sorted before I was born and its a bit late now:) Carol