The St. Louis County Library now has a binder that contains an index to baptisms at St. Patrick's Church - a predominantly Irish parish. The index only runs from 1853 to 1862, so it is limited. This would be helpful to anyone who is researching the Irish during those years , but I think it would be especially helpful to those who live out of St. Louis and who are researching those years. A lookup by library personnel in this index would be fairly easy and I think they would probably be happy to check. Diane Shaw