Be really careful with this site. First you need to know what records are available. Here is a site that will give your the years that RC church records exist: http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/rcmaps/ Then you need to know that there are gaps in these records that are not mentioned. I have searched many Irish RC records in both Belfast and Dublin and know that the original registers can be in terrible condition with pages ripped out or just missing. Take county Laois, for instance. I searched every church register from the county both in Belfast and in Dublin and not one parish is complete! Therefore, if you do a research in these records and your family is not found, it is not conclusive, because there just might not be records available for your baptism or marriage that you are searching. Another thing... the database that is being used is faulty. The records were transcribed by unemployed people who had no experience in either genealogy or old time handwriting. If anyone has looked at old censuses, you know names and other data can be mis-transcribed. Then there is the search parameters on the site. For marriages, you can only search on one name. If you are looking for a John Ryan in Tipperary, there are probably hundreds in the same time period. But they don't give you the parish or the other name, so you would have to pay for each record to see it. Same problem with birth/baptisms, you can only search for the child's name, you can't put in the parents' names. There's more. While County Tipperary shows the whole county is online, there are no records for the Emly & Cashel Diocese included and anyone who does research in that county knows that about 2/3's of the county is in that diocese. So, while some have found their families, I recommend you be careful when using the site. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com