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From: Linda Merle <>
Subject: Re: Scotch-Irish-D Digest V00 #210 No. 6
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:29:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: <34.4229416.2631b1e1@aol.com>


Hi Evelyn,

The Presbyterian records in Belfast are a special case -- there are political
reasons why many of them are not filmed. However many of them ARE.

You can find them:

1 Searching the county and parish using Locality Search
2 Searching "Presbyterian" and "Ireland" using the fiche "Subject" Search.
3 Searching collections of records -- ie some are in collections that were
filmed from other locales. You search Ireland-Archives - and then the
calendars.
4 Searching Hayes, and Smith's Inventories. Here you are searching for
published records . Some, like the early Templemore (Derry) records, are
published in books.
5 And then searching the "Vital Records" fiche too. Search them right after
# 2 because its easy.

The Ulster Presbyterian records are not in Dublin. In Dublin you will only
find (with some exceptions that I guess prove the rule) southern Presbyterian
churches.

The reason, as I said, is politics.

>To use the films of the actual records of some of those local churches, you
>must travel to Belfast or Dublin and use them at PRONI in Belfast or PRO in
>Dublin.

Best regards,

Linda Merle

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