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The following book contains information about the history and records of many Irish religious denominations:  

The following books also have excellent information about church records:  

== Church of Ireland Records  ==

Request a copy of the record from the Representative Church Body Library. A list of this library's parish records is found in:  

The library also has biographical sketches of Church of Ireland ministers. The address is:  

6. Grenham, John. ''Tracing Your Irish Ancestors''. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan Limited, 1992.  

9. Refaussé, Raymond. ''Church of Ireland Records Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History ''Number 1, Dublin Irish Academic Press, 2000.  

10. Refaussé, Raymond. “The Representative Church Body Library and the records of the Church of Ireland,” ''Archivium Hibernicum'' 49 (1995).  

12. Ryan, James, compiler. ''Irish Church Records, Their history, availability and use in family and local history research''. Glenageary, Dublin: Flyleaf Press, 1992. <br>

The Family History Library has microfilm copies of many Catholic parish registers. These are listed in the catalog under IRELAND, [COUNTY], [PARISH] - CHURCH RECORDS, where [PARISH] is the civil parish in which the Catholic parish is located. Maps showing Catholic parish boundaries for every county in Ireland can be found in:  

=== Selected Bibliography  ===

In the 1700s and early 1800s several groups split off from the Presbyterian church. Seceding, non-subscribing, and reformed congregations were formed in many areas of Northern Ireland. These congregations kept their own records. In 1840 most of these congregations rejoined the main body of Irish Presbyterians. For a discussion and the names of the seceding, non-subscribing, and reformed Presbyterian congregations in Ireland, see the following book:  

The following book lists Presbyterian congregations in Ireland and their ministers:  

Records kept by Presbyterian ministers include birth, baptism, and marriage records. These records are similar in content to Church of Ireland records except that mothers' maiden names are often given in the birth and baptism records.  

Presbyterian ministers have custody of original Presbyterian records. See:  

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland at http://www.proni.gov.uk/ has microfilm or paper copies of most of the Presbyterian registers for Northern Ireland and for the counties of Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan. For a list of the office's Presbyterian records, see James G. Ryan, ed., ''Irish Church Records'' referenced above.&nbsp; Further, if you get a permission letter from the local minister, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland will make a copy of the film for you for a reasonable cost.&nbsp; See&nbsp;[http://www.proni.gov.uk/index_to_presbyterian_records-2.pdf '''http://www.proni.gov.uk/index_to_presbyterian_records-2.pdf'''] .&nbsp; This is only available for Presbyterian parish films at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.  

Records for either of the Connexion groups after 1905 and 1910, respectively, are held by individual churches in Ireland.  

Other Methodist records available at the Family History Library are listed in the Place Search of the catalog under the following headings:  

'''Quaker Monthly Meetings'''<br>Quaker records are not kept by parish, but rather by “monthly meetings”. Births, marriages and deaths were recorded at these meetings. Monthly meeting records extend from the late 1600s to the present, with the earliest record from Cork in 1675. Today records exist for 16 Quaker monthly meetings.  

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IRELAND, [COUNTY], [PARISH] - CHURCH RECORDS  

== Jewish Records  ==

Records of other churches are primarily in local custody (except for Latter-day Saint records, which are mainly in Salt Lake City, Utah). Huguenot church records have been published in:  

Copies of records for other churches can be found at the Family History Library. These are listed in the Place Search of the catalog under:  

''Hayes's Sources'' can be used to determine if and where church records were deposited before 1977. Look in the subject indexes of:  

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has published:  

The descriptive catalog of holdings of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland details that archives' holdings of church records. The Family History Library has a filmed copy of the descriptive catalog. The sections describing church records are found on films 1,701,904-5; 1,701,989; 1,736,433 items 5-9; 1,736,434 items 1-2.  

Local heritage or genealogical centres throughout Ireland are currently indexing church records. To determine if a centre has indexed the records you need, consult:  

Additional church records have been indexed since the directory was published. Contact the appropriate centre for more current information and to determine the fees charged for searching and copying index entries.  

*http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/church.htm