Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alison Kilpatrick" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [ARMAGH] Clare Presbyterian Church > On 2010-04-27, at 9:31 AM, Karen wrote: > >> Hello - >> I am tryng to contact anyone at the Clare Presbyterian Church, as my >> grandfather's grandparents were married there in 1840 and I am trying to >> find any records of their marriage. Do you know of an email address, or >> a person's name, or any way I could contact them? Is that church still >> functioning as a church? Would its records be there or somewhere else? > .............. > > > Hello, Karen: > > Go to the following link on the web site for the Public Record Office of > Northern Ireland [PRONI]: > > http://www.proni.gov.uk/guide_to_church_records.pdf > > The PRONI's "Guide to Church Records" will download as a pdf document. > Refer to page 90 of that document. That page says that a copy of the > records for the Presbyterian congregation at Clare is held on microfilm > reference number MIC1P/329. According to the guide, that microfilm > contains baptisms for 1824-1945 and marriages for 1825-1936. > > In order to study that microfilm, you will have to attend the PRONI in > Belfast or hire a local commercial researcher to make transcriptions of > the entries of interest to you. The PRONI provides a list of commercial > researchers at the following link: > > http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/research_and_records_held/can_someone_else_do_research_for_me/independent_commercial_researchers.htm > > I do not know the answer to your question as to whether the church is > still functioning. Someone else will have to write in and answer that. > Even if the church is still operating, the minister may have the charge of > at least two congregations. In this case, he or she would not likely have > the time to search the church records for family historians. > > Hope this helps. > > Alison > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message