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