Try the GRO - you can apply for certificates on-line. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "McWilliam, John T" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: [Derry] Birth records in Coleraine 1829 > Where might I find the birth records of an individual born in Coleraine in approximately 1829? > > > > John McWilliam > > > > > > ==== NIR-DERRY Mailing List ==== > Visited the *NEW* RootsWeb Message Boards yet? Take a tour soon & see > how time-saving "Gateway" messages can be compared to finding *new* > ones on your own. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw . > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

On 7/25/03 11:07 PM, "ANNE DUFF" <[email protected]> wrote: > Try the GRO - you can apply for certificates on-line. > > Anne ... except that civil registration of births in Ireland did not commence until 1864, so an application to the GRONI [General Register Office of Northern Ireland] for a birth in 1829 would yield a null result. For births that predate 1864, the research objective would be to locate a baptismal entry, by establishing the religious denomination and the parish/congregation of the ancestor, and then locating the church register for that parish ... which, in turn, assumes that the records for the parish or congregation of interest date back that far. See the following URLs for more information about church records for County Londonderry: http://members.aol.com/lochlan2/parish.htm ... scroll down to the "Londonderry Registers" section. http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/presindx.htm http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/cofiindx.htm ... for information about microfilm copies of Presbyterian and the Church of Ireland registers held at the PRONI [Public Record Office of Northern Ireland] in Belfast. http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/county/derry/ldyrc.html ... for information about the availability and archival locations of Roman Catholic records for the County Londonderry. http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/county/derry.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~nirldy/ http://members.aol.com/Manus/nirderry.html http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/LDY/ ... for online resources/pointers regarding County Londonderry genealogical research. http://www.coleraine-nifhs.org.uk/ ... for the Coleraine Branch of the Northern Ireland Family History Society. http://www.irishroots.net/Derry.htm ... for information about the County Derry or Londonderry Genealogy Centre, a fee-based research service. ac