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anyone who can look thru cork records

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Janet

Janet Report 4 Nov 2007 12:12

Cork is Ireland's second biggest county and for parish records you will need to know whether you are looking for Catholic or Protestant baps and marriages, and then the Diocese, followed by barony and townland that you are looking for before you can get any further. RC records are with the churches all over Ireland but have microfilm copies in the National Library in Dublin and Belfast and a digitised collection in Roscommon. Protestant Records where they exist are in the TNA Dublin and Belfast.If the Diocese you are interested in happens to be Cloyne then your next stage will be to write to the Mallow Heritage Centre and ask their permission to view the records.

If you can't or do not want to do it that way, then your next route is to look at the coverage of the IGI for Ireland which is extremely poor. Alternatively, you can go to the many hundreds of Irish websites and maybe "find" your possible ancestors that way, which is very hit and miss.

The Mallow (Cork) parish records,along with parish records from other counties have just come online, for which you have to pay to access the actual record, though they are free to browse initially with very little help, unless you have an unusual Irish name. The following website should help you with this.

http://leitrim.brsgenealogy.com/index.php?&set=yes

Once on to the site just click on map and all the counties that have been put online so far will come up. Once you have the map then you will see that only North Cork is available at present, but the rest will follow shortly.It will not be cheap at 10 euros/approx £7 a go..

Janet North London Borders

Rebekah

Rebekah Report 4 Nov 2007 06:33

Hi,
I am looking for Williams of Cork but Jane does not provide a match as yet. Do you have more details of her family?

Kay

Kay Report 12 Sep 2007 20:14

Hi can anyone help me I'm looking for someone who can look thru' the cork parish records.I want to find a Sylvester Barnes /barrons born Cork 1840 father Michel/Michael Barnes mother unknown ,Sylvester became a soldier was stationed in Athlone Barracks and married a Jane Williams in 1864 .Her father was a police-man called George Williams.
regards the liverpool lassie.