Catholic Church Records

[mightymum]

hi does anyone have access to Catholic Church Records for Co Westmeath,or can they only be viewed at GRO?i am searching for marriage in 1871/2 up to 1875 somewhere in Co Westmeath.
cheers

[tucson mike]

Some Catholic Church records for Westmeath are now available online at:
http://westmeath.brsgenealogy.com

I found my grandmother's baptismal certificate and her parents' marriage certificate there.

The system is shall we say odd, with respect to payments. Index searches are free, but generally do not provide enough information to determine whether a record is one you want to see. Viewing a record costs 5 Euros regardless of whether it is or is not one you were looking for. No flat-fee or subscription service is available.

For my grandmother I already knew her birth date, so I could be assured it was her baptismal record. For her parents' marriage record I could search for them individually to ensure there was one record for two people with those names married in the same parish at the same date. But in general the price is too high, for me, to allow me to use the database well.

The staff at Dun na Si Heritage Centre was helpful but the IFHF staff was not.

[Notinpastyet]

YES I find this site can be very much a hit or a miss  sometimes it is a totally  disappointment eg I was checking out a John Daly's marriage the only info I got was he married  someone called Doyle everything else on the marriage recored read not recorded ,so basically I paid 5 euro for the name Doyle which I think is very expensive don't you agree? Nippy

[aghadowey]

If you know the name of the church where the marriage took place you can check the LDS catalogue online (www.familysearch.org) to see if they've microfilmed the records. If so you can order them for a small fee from your local LDS library to be viewed there.