You have to know the parish. Chris Krossel who is the head archivisit at the Cleveland Diocese can help you determine probably which parish they belonged to. She has done a chart showing which churches started and when. Can determine by the address of your ancestors probably the church they would have attended. This is how I found where mine and which church they went to. Carole Lubbers, Marietta, Ga. researching Willard: Tuscarawas, Stark, Summit, Portage & Henry Counties, Ohio Immel: Burlaswagen, Germany to Holmes Co., Ohio Thomas G. Kemp: Cornwall, Engl. to Dover, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio Paczkowski/Paszkowski/Patzkowski: Prussia to Russia to Marion Co., Kansas Ruth Lloyd b. 1847 Merioneth Co., Wales, Father was John Lloyd b. 1816 Gwyddelwern Joseph Roberts b. 1848 husband of Ruth, can't locate anything for Joseph Dennis Hogan b. 1850 Ireland to Cleveland, Ohio abt. 1870 Mary Ellen Gleason b. 1852 Ireland to Cleveland, wife of Dennis Hogan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 8:22 AM Subject: Parish information > I'm an expert at searching census and other public information, but a complete novice at church info. Can anyone advise me how to find out what parish my family would have belonged to if I can determine their address. I do know that they seemed to move around ... did people change parishes as they moved around the city or did they continue to go to their original church? > > Is it necessary to know the exact parish or will the diocese have all the records in one central file? Will they have the records at all? I am particularly interested in baptismal and marriage records from the 1860s and 1870s. > > Thanks to anyone who can advise me. > > Janet >