NOTE this is Catholic registers and a bit tricky to find your way around in that the maps to guide you do not list where specific towns are. SO using this site takes a LOT of perseverance and patience. Suggest to use it you keep 2 windows of the site open at one time. Thanks for this useful tool for Catholics Sheila--too bad most my guys are COI :-( Joyce On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Sheila MacAvoy Block via < ny-irish@rootsweb.com> wrote: > The National Library of Ireland has put up parish records for free at > > http://registers.nli.ie/ > >

In Tony McCarthy's book about sleuthing down your Irish ancestors, he recommends searching RC and COI records, especially during the Irish Holocaust era. Then, if a RC "took the soup" during the famine era, they may have been considered COI. Also RC folks visibly converted to COI to receive food. Barb MizScarlettNY@aol.com -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Presnall via <ny-irish@rootsweb.com> NOTE this is Catholic registers and a bit tricky to find your way around in that the maps to guide you do not list where specific towns are. SO using this site takes a LOT of perseverance and patience. Suggest to use it you keep 2 windows of the site open at one time. Thanks for this useful tool for Catholics Sheila--too bad most my guys are COI :-( Joyce On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Sheila MacAvoy Block via < ny-irish@rootsweb.com> wrote: > The National Library of Ireland has put up parish records for free at > > http://registers.nli.ie/ > > ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NY-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message