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Hello Paul:
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,700,000 surviving rcds for abt 70% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 30%.
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 Mary Hannan (exact) B ???? somewhere in Ireland with the father's forename unknown, I found 254 rcds.
For John Cummins (exact) B ditto, I found 401 rcds dating from 1756.
Suggest you find some DOB from either the censuses or naturalization papers. This will help eliminate the many false positives. It would help even more if you KNEW if they were married in Ireland.
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.
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