You can easily find out what parish your ancestors attended by writing the Diocesan Archives. Give them the address and the time from. These churches were built at different times-- a family might have belonged to one parish, never moved, and found themselves in another parish a few years later. They have records of that nature at the Diocese. Churches were Irish or Polish or whatever because of the neighborhood composition, not because someone made a decision to attend there because of their ethnicity. The church used to be very strict about attending outside the neighborhood parish, and parochial school attendance related very strictly to that. I belive also that Celveland State University published a book about the Irish in Cleveland a while back. Much of the inforamtion came from the Church; at least half the book concerned the church in Cleveland, when & how parishes were developed. Here is the information on it from the catalog at Kent State: Author Callahan, Nelson J Title Irish Americans and their communities of Cleveland / by Nelson J. Callahan, William F. Hickey ; with an introd. by Andrew M. Greeley Publish info Cleveland : Cleveland State University, 1978 You can try interlibrary loaning it through your local library or writing a library that owns it but will not loan it and ask them to look up something for you. Send a SASE for their trouble. There is NOT detailed stuff in here; but you will find talk about lace curtain Irish, the Angle, irishman's Bend, shanty Irish, etc. Good hunting. Judith in OH