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Offline moscan

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Re: what are good rc sites
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 24 April 07 21:17 BST (UK) »
Records of the Church of Ireland, generally start much earlier than those of the Catholic Church. From as early as 1634, local parishes were required to keep records of christenings and burials in registers supplied by the church authorities. As a result, a significant number, especially of urban parishes, have registers dating from the mid seventeenth century. The majority, however, start in the years between 1770 and 1820; the only country-wide listing of all Church of Ireland parish records which gives full details of dates is the National Archives catalogue, copies of which are also to be found at the National Library or by contacting the RCB ( Representative Church Body Library) direct see the link below and also the e-mail direct for the library.

http://www.ireland.anglican.org/?do=information&id=36

library@ireland.anglican.org

Hope this helps Erin.

As for Catholic records before 1864 they too are available at the National Library and some individual County web sites.

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Mo
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« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 24 April 07 22:31 BST (UK) »
Thanks Mo.  very interesting information here .

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 05 August 07 04:28 BST (UK) »
Rosanne,

I spotted a three page article offering some good advice regarding  Roman Catholic Records, Research and their Locations. The first sentence is an excellent summary of the problems facing researchers of Catholic Records in Ireland. It says that due to the disadvantages suffered by the Catholic Church from the 16th to the 19th centuries, record-keeping was understandably difficult and as a consequence very few registers survive from before the latter half of the 18th century.   

There's another page of advice - Research in Catholic Records - on the Irish Ancestors site which warns the researcher of the horrors of "a mass of spidery abbreviated Latin, complete with blots and alterations, and cross-hatched with the scratches of a well worn microfilm which can strike terror into the heart of even the most seasoned researcher".

If you get stuck I'm sure one or two of the older RootsChatters remember some of the Latin phrases they learnt at school many moons ago. "Caesar ad sum iam forte. Brutus ad erat."

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