Diane, This was great, I got right to it thru the URL that you gave. I have a lot of the early French and Spanish, which I really couldn't read. But I did find my great grandmothers marriage record, but I did have the date, which made it easier, but I was not for sure she was married at Old Cathedral, now I know she was. I think I had more problems with the burials, All my Alvarez/Alvares records were hard to read, but this is a great place to look. Many many French names that I recognized. Do you know why the 1870 plus St.. Louis buriels aren't there? Are they still filming them or did something happen to those records? Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane" <lilirish@earthlink.net> To: "ST. Louis Rootsweb" <MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L@rootsweb.com>; <IRISH-IN-SAINT-LOUIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 3:13 PM Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Some St. Louis Church records are in Ancestry >I was looking around in the Drouin records of Ancestry's Canadian > Collection and found a link to "French Catholic Church Records-Drouin > Collection 1695-1954. I looked at the listing on the page and it > included some states in the US. Missouri was one of them. So I > clicked > on Missouri and found a collection of records of early churches. So > I > clicked on the late 1800's and found that the cathedral records are > there! I went into the records to see how well they are photographed > and they look very good. The first records I saw were for baptisms in > 1856 for a families named Boyle, McNabb, Kerns, Curran, etc. These > are > all records - not just French ones. This is exciting for people who > don't have access to St. Louis early church records. I must say it > was > hard to find, though. > > http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=1111&path=Missouri > > The above URL is the one I used to find it. I don't know if it will > work without a log in. As I said, I was searching Canada when I found > them. You will need a full access subscription to Ancestry to access > these files. I wish I had had more time to find out how many churches > were there. > > If anyone else finds this treasure, please write down how you got > there!!! > > Diane Shaw > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >