My great grandfather was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1864 and I have a copy of his baptismal certificate from St. Vincent de Paul parish. It is a copy made in 1932 when one of my great aunts needed to prove her citizenship to get a passport. Willamsburg and the Flatlands are both in the Diocese of Brooklyn, so if you can find the parish, you could have a pretty good shot at getting baptismal records (assuming a cooperative parish clerk) http://dioceseofbrooklyn.org/parish_search.aspx good luck! Margaret On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:16 PM, ny-irish-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:22:04 EDT > From: MAS13751@aol.com > Subject: [NY-IRISH] NY Births 1868-1875 > To: ny-irish@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <bc2.52e11699.3806032c@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > My great-grandfather was Michael McMahon came over from Clare > Ireland on > the Antartic in 1864 and lived in the Flatlands, NY. He had 2 sons > John & > Thomas born in 1868 and 1871 before moving out to Iowa/Illinois. > Are there > birth/christening records available for those years - 1868-1871 - > anywhere > on-line? If not, is there any way to get those records? I'd like > to find > out his wife's name. Also, where would I find County Clare birth > records...I know his parent's names and that he was born in Dec. > 1841?? Mary Ann in > CT