Diane, I was able to get in. I clicked on your link and then chose the link I wanted and eventually it gave me a page to sign up for a free three day trial, no credit card needed! Thanks, Kathy G. ----- 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 > > >