Has anyone here had any luck getting records out of Fethard, Tipperary, Ireland or Thurles, County T
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Unfortunatley, this area falls in to an area that the Bishop took out a copyright on the records so it is very difficult to find parish records for the area. You can try this link to see if there are any records for the parish. https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0263
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Wendy, how would one go about finding out who this Bishop is, as I am assuming he is with the Catholic church? I realize it is a long shot, but if we could contact him or whoever is over that area, maybe they would be willing to let us research those records. Thank you for the link as well. We will check it out.
Shannon
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The NLI link has images for this parish from 1806 onwards. Many Catholic parishes only started keeping records in 1828 when Catholic Emanicipation occured. So already you have a 22 year advantage over most places in Ireland.
If there are other records not on NLI, then the two links at the bottom of the page may be helpful. Irish Ancestors is run by John Grenham and is a very good website. It lists for each place all the available records. Note you are limited to 5 pages per day unless you subscribe. RootsIreland sometimes has parish records that NLI doesn't has. The NLI images come from 1980s microfilms. Since then, some records have gone missing or have disintegrated while others have been rediscovered due to very poor storage and conservation practices by the Catholic dioceses and parishes in Ireland . On that note, you may wish to sign a petition I started on this issue: https://www.change.org/p/irish-catholic-bishops-conference-preserve-and-protect-irish-catholic-church-registers
If you want to get access to the original records (e.g. due to poor quality images from NLI), then I'd suggest first contacting the parish office or secretary since records are often held by the parishes and not the dioceses. The parish probably has a website with contact details.
The Catholic Church in Ireland is extremely fussy about access to their records because they don't want the information to be used to perform Latter Day Saint ordinances. They are likely to be very protective of any records that are not online.
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I've manage to get info from the actual registrar in Northern Ireland for free. She even contacted the family. Be aware this does not work for everyone. I've had registrars who helped me out all round the country. Even abroad . from birth to burials. I guess it's down to experience.
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In this situation, we are dealing with Catholic records rather than civil records. The Catholic Church in Ireland is very reluctant to make any genealogical records available online in case the information contained in the records is used for Latter Day Saint ordinances. Whereas registrars and staff in the government archives are likely to be much more helpful- the Irish government tries to attract tourism from the tens of millions of people around the world with Irish ancestry.
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Thank you for those of you who responded to helping me. I appreciate the comments and direction to search. 😊
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