Catholic Parish Records to go online in the Summer

[healyjfch]

Looking forward to be able to see Roman Catholic Records on line
I have seen the Microfilm version of a parish, some of the handwriting is difficult to read.
The faded ones are the worst.

Some priests wrote the Fee paid !

[hasta]

Release date confirmed by NLI as 8th July.
http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2015/04/nli-announces-date-for-launch-of-rc.html

I searched south Dublin records (Blackrock, Dun Laoghaire, Cabinteely) in NLI and they were in fantastic condition, really readable. The 1860's St Michaels, Dun Laoghaire in particular were meticulous. The priest had drawn little maps of all the areas he was responsible for. Each entry had it's own reference number and at the end of each year he had done a tally of records for every name. So for instance the name I was looking for was Hughes, so you could go to the end of each year and see the number of HUGHES baptisms and marriages that year and the reference number to find each. Brilliant ! The Wexford records I was interested in were a different thing altogether - I could hardly tell if I had the page upside down or back to front !

[Blue70]

Hopefully Ancestry will make this collection searchable as they already do with their links to various external records.


Blue

[healyjfch]

I have looked at a few parishes micofilm records in County Kilkenny
Some of the early Baptismal records have mothers names as Mrs, no maiden name given.
I saw a record that had Widow Kelly as mother, no first name for father or mother.
Not all have addresses either, mostly townland and street where it is given.

One bonus I found was marriage details written at baptismal record.
Stating spouses name and Parish where marriage took place.

[Sinann]

Release date confirmed by NLI as 8th July.
http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2015/04/nli-announces-date-for-launch-of-rc.html

A date a date we have a date YIPEEEE

Should be noted it says from the 8th onwards

But we have a date😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[Joney]

I second the YIPEEEE !
 It's good to hear that there were some obviously enthusiastic record keepers among the parish priests. Noting marriages against baptism entries and even helpfully noting the address in the margin is always good to see. A lot of English birth registrations in the 1850s don't have house numbers on them either in my experience. The registrars don't seem to think it matters. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the parishes I'm interested in had priests who were as keen on keeping the registers as we are on reading them

I have an LDS film of Catholic registers of Termonfeckin, County Louth which is mostly illegible to me.  My cousin bought it from PRONI after the then parish priest gave permission in the early 1990s, but only the researcher she paid was able to make out any of it.  The register appeared water-damaged and some images were just out of focus.
My hope is that at home on a computer I will be able to enlarge  images much more easily and make sense of more of what was recorded.

So it's stll fingers crossed, but getting closer at least.
Joan

[glensman]

John Grenham's blog puts the soon-to-be online R.C. records in a very positive light:

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/irishroots/

[Sinann]

John Grenham's blog puts the soon-to-be online R.C. records in a very positive light:

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/irishroots/

Thanks for that,
I like the sound of the map.

[LizzieW]

Hopefully I'll be able to find info on my husband's Irish ancestors prior to 1841 when they are in England.