The best place I have found to find birth records since most were burned in the 1922 fire is in church records of baptisms. Catholics and Presbyterians baptized infants most of the time. I have found my relatives in many of the churchs. Some of the records are held in Local Custody or by PRONI. HOpe this helps. Diane >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: NIR-DERRY-D Digest V03 #124 >Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:00:21 -0600 > ><< message2.txt >> ><< message4.txt >> ><< message6.txt >> _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

On 7/26/03 12:20 AM, "Diane Bland" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The best place I have found to find birth records since most were burned in > the 1922 fire is in church records of baptisms. Catholics and Presbyterians > baptized infants most of the time. I have found my relatives in many of the > churchs. Some of the records are held in Local Custody or by PRONI. HOpe > this helps. ... Actually, the records for civil registrations of births, marriages, and deaths have survived. Information about the availability of civil BMD records can be found at: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/birthsmarrdeaths.html ... the National Archives in Dublin. http://www.groni.gov.uk/index.htm ... the General Register Office for Northern Ireland in Belfast. Many records were destroyed or partially damaged in the fire at Four Courts in Dublin in 1992, but other historical events led to the loss or destruction of various public records, too. However, great efforts have been made, both in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, to recover original records or copies that had been made of these records prior to those events, and to store those copies in national archives. For more information, I suggest referral to the following online resources, but this is only a limited selection: http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/census19.htm ... what the PRONI says about the survival of 19th century census returns. http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/census18.htm ... what the PRONI offers in the way of census substitutes. http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1.html ... Many, if not all, of these census records are also available for viewing at either the National Archives in Dublin. There are some differences in the holdings between the PRONI in Belfast and the National Archives in Dublin ... not many, but it does mean that a thorough check of their holdings before visiting is very worth one's while. http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/records.htm ... for a general listing of the records held by PRONI. ac