It's actually not too bad, once, as you say, one realizes that people could be in neighbouring county, parish, etc. I have kin who lived beside a Pres. Church in 1820's yet travelled with 6 kids into Monaghan Town passing other Pres. Churches en-route..yet they are buried in local church g/yard! a lot of records were written weeks later from 'memory'. I love reading the comments.."No Service, insufficient notice',... 'No Service, buried by family during morning service'..'No Service, buried o/night by family'..no money to pay for funeral!! Having looked at registers and seeing how some are so badly written I presume other Ministers probably did not even note if someone buried a relative during the night!! Your local geography pretty much mirrors how things work in Ireland. Townlands were 'swapped' between parishes so one's kin could be in one parish today and in another tomorrow without even moving! Indeed, some of mine in US are in one state but the state lines were redrawn and they ended up in another state, without leaving home! <grin> If it was easy it would be boring! I can see how frustrating it can be for those not living in Ireland but it's all part of one's history. One of my lot was the Registrar of B.D.M's in Monaghan, yet his kids had to be registered in Co. Cavan as that was the office that covered his townland. Finding records is not the problem, trying to figure out how things worked is more difficult..like I know to go to the Co. Cavan register to get my Co. Monaghan kin. Then comes the renaming of townlands, no point in looking for people in a particular townland in 1700's unless one knows what it was called in 1700's, often completely different than in 1800's. Yes, we had shrouds which were rented for funerals, people often couldn't afford to allow someone to be buried in clothes as these had to be passed on to the living. No separate books were kept for these, perhaps a comment in register. Would we be doing this if it was easy?? Subject: Re: [S-I] BMD 1690 - 1800 records from CHEWEM To:scotch-irish@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1730840029.2387374.1321026302176.JavaMail.root@sz0165a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi D. H., yup, is anything easy in Ireland (genealogically related)? However on the plus side, it's also good to recall that sometimes people went afield to baptize children. So it's always good (the experts tell us, not that it has ever worked out for me<grin>) to check what does survive. Some of the Dublin church records start very early -- early 1600s, maybe earlier (can't recall).