Ruth, It looks like they only exist for beginning 1797 for baptisms and beginning 1799 for marriages for RC records. If you are looking for Church of Ireland records, they might go back much farther. There are, at the moment, only 3 ways to access them: >From the films at the National Library in Dublin for RC records >From the local parish priest (with donation recommended) for RC records, and it is iffy on how long it might take to get an answer as they are truly very busy. >From Waterford Heritage for either RC or C of I records: http://www.iol.ie/~mnoc/ You can also get C of I records from the church office in Dublin. Eventually, with luck, all the records should be on-line with the Irish Family History Foundation, but Waterford is not there yet. Those IFHF records can be difficult as it costs 5 Euro a peek and unless one is very sure which record one wants, the cost can add up fast. Waterford Heritage, although pricey, is probably the best and fastest way to go unless you are going to Dublin anyway, although looking at the films can take many hours or days. If you look at the Heritage website (link above) you can see all the records they will look at, and they do good research. Janet On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ruth Charlton <mistsoftime@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Janet > > Thank you very much! > I am looking for a baptism for an Alfred Browning, born in 1838 - > father Thomas. Are there surviving parish registers for Tallow? > > Ruth > Please double-check subject line & snip your messages when replying. > > Please search the Archives of this list for your surnames at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=waterford > > ------------------------------------- > The Ireland GenWeb County Waterford website is up for adoption.  Check it out at:  http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat/ > If you would like to take this site over, contact:  Waterford-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WATERFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Just a comment: The only records I had were a son's death record where it mentioned the parent's birthplace (Grange & Newcastle) and the names of the children with what turned out to be incorrect birthdates. I sent a request to the Waterford Heritage Center with the information I had. They were able to find baptismal dates for 11 of 13 children of my ggg grandparents, dates ranging from 1816 to 1834. Unfortunately, they did not find the only child who (family story says) remained in Tipperary. It cost about $200 (less than $20 per name for those they did find) but all in all, it was a good thing as it verified or corrected information - dates and names. Subsequently I was able to visit Newcastle Parish and was able to view the actual record at the church and as I now had the actual dates, I was able to go to the right page for each child. The records are in Latin, but it's not too hard to translate. Doing all this research myself would have been impossible without going to Dublin as Janet says. My families records are in Waterford Heritage center because they were from Newcastle Parish which is part of Lismore Diocese. Sandra Hawley On 4/24/2010 8:55 AM, Janet Crawford wrote: > Ruth, It looks like they only exist for beginning 1797 for baptisms > and beginning 1799 for marriages for RC records. If you are looking > for Church of Ireland records, they might go back much farther. > There are, at the moment, only 3 ways to access them: > > From the films at the National Library in Dublin for RC records > > From the local parish priest (with donation recommended) for RC > records, and it is iffy on how long it might take to get an answer as > they are truly very busy. > > From Waterford Heritage for either RC or C of I records: > http://www.iol.ie/~mnoc/ > You can also get C of I records from the church office in Dublin. > > Eventually, with luck, all the records should be on-line with the > Irish Family History Foundation, but Waterford is not there yet. Those > IFHF records can be difficult as it costs 5 Euro a peek and unless one > is very sure which record one wants, the cost can add up fast. > Waterford Heritage, although pricey, is probably the best and fastest > way to go unless you are going to Dublin anyway, although looking at > the films can take many hours or days. If you look at the Heritage > website (link above) you can see all the records they will look at, > and they do good research. > > Janet > > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ruth Charlton<mistsoftime@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Janet >> >> Thank you very much! >> I am looking for a baptism for an Alfred Browning, born in 1838 - >> father Thomas. Are there surviving parish registers for Tallow? >> >> Ruth >> Please double-check subject line& snip your messages when replying. >> >> Please search the Archives of this list for your surnames at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=waterford >> >> ------------------------------------- >> The Ireland GenWeb County Waterford website is up for adoption. Check it out at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat/ >> If you would like to take this site over, contact: Waterford-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WATERFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > Please double-check subject line& snip your messages when replying. > > Please search the Archives of this list for your surnames at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=waterford > > ------------------------------------- > The Ireland GenWeb County Waterford website is up for adoption. Check it out at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwat/ > If you would like to take this site over, contact: Waterford-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WATERFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Hooray! Sandra. Always good to hear someone has pinned down their family with records. Hope you enjoyed every minute of the search! Janet