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From: "Richard and Bobbi Jo Hammond" <>
Subject: [MURPHY-ROOTS] Fw: Re: [GALWAY] IRISH CHURCH RECORDS
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:46:35 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)






As a free alternative or supplement to commissioning an expensive full study

to find records of our Irish Ancestors, I have acccumulated Irish Church

Records from my own research and from the research of many other generous

donors who have also contributed their records. I have formatted and

batched together and donated these records, over a couple of years to

Rootsweb, which provides free database server space to me and free access to

you, so that the information taken from these records, including many which

have never before been published by the LDS or anyone, can be accessed for

free.


The latest update, which occurred just last week, was an additonal new batch

of about 3,400 records. The total number of Baptisms and and Chruch records

of Marriages has now reached 9,511 which now puts the goal of 10,000 records

by the end of this year well within reach. The latest batch includes many

from County Galway and several generous Galway list members. Since the

index lately does not show counties, you have to look at the full record to

see the county. There are lots of Galway records among them, even though

the indexed ones are the original Tipperary and Limerick records. Please

take a look at this database; search all your surnames, and please spread

the word about this free access to a database of nearly 10,000 Irish Church

Records to other County lists you subscribe to. The site address is:


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishchurchrecords/index.html

ROOTSWEB'S IRISH CHURCH RECORDS DATABASE


They also may be accessed from other Rootsweb search sites, but I built this

one, which shows only the Irish Records and does not co-mingle them with

English or other United Kingdom records as Rootsweb sites do.


If you have any baptismal or marriage church records and you would like to

join in this effort to provide FREE access to thousands of Irish Church

Records, please note the link at the bottom of that page, on "How to donate

to this Database." It's all about people sharing and helping each other.


Enjoy,

Tony Riordan





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