Tonight marks the debut of the Rootsweb collection of Irish Church records they have just set up. I have donated the 2,835 complete transcriptions of County Tipperary and Limerick marriage and baptismal records which are now on Rootsweb database. It is comprised of 1,765 baptismal records and 1,070 marriage records. These records were collected from nearly 100 generous donors, primarily Tippreary List and Limerick List subscribers, who had acquired these records as a result of their own search. I compiled them and put them in the place where I feel that they will reach the most researchers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishchurchrecords/index.htm Search Rootsweb's new Irish Church Records; Tipperary and Limerick This was begun over a year ago, to overcome the problems encountered in trying to access church records of the Archdiocese of Cashel & Emly. The current and previous Bishops had withdrawn permission to find the records anywhere, including The National Library, which has an excellent collection of church records form Cashel & Emly but can no longer, at the insistence of the Bishop, allow researchers to view them. This gave the Tipperary Heritage Unit nearly a monopoly on the records. And if researchers thought things cound not get worse, now The Tipperary Heritage Unit itself has closed! This is why we have been pooling all of the available records to make this information. If you have ancestors who may have been from Tipperary and the parts of County Limerick covered by the Archdiocese of Cashel & Emly, you must spend some time with these records. It is not nearly a complete listing of the records of these Tipperary and Limerick parishes but it is far better than NOTHING. We are also still accepting record donations if you have complete transcriptions of the above described type of church records. The additional ones will be submitted to Rootsweb periodically. Contact me for details. Thank you, Tony Riordan triordan@msn.com _________________________________________________________ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishchurchrecords/index.htm Search Rootsweb's new Irish Church Records; Tipperary and Limerick