Re: Cornelius John Daly of Everett Massachusetts

I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,000,000 surviving rcds for abt 65% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800.

Note 1 - Without a KNOWN parish, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 35%.

Note 2 - Only 1/2 of Co. Cork's rcds are in this database.

Note 3 - The RC church kept control over most parish rcds from Tipperary (north). These are ONLY available thru the Tipperary Family History Research center at a substantial fee (regardless of outcome).

For Johanna Fitzgerald B 1852 +/- 4 yrs somewhere in Ireland with the father's forename unknown, I found 50 rcds - too many to list here.

For Cornelius Daly B 1849 ditto, I found 9 rcds: 1845 CRK, 1845 GAL, 1846 CRK, 1847 CRK, 1848 LIM, 1851 LIM, 1852 CRK, and 2-1853 CRK.

Searching for a marriage of Cornelius and Johanna in 1869 +/- 4 yrs, I found 2 POTENTIAL matches in 1868 and 1873 CRK. However, when I screened at the parish level, I found 0 matches.

Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and browse. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.

Hope this helps. Good luck.