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FindMyPast--How to search records by parish?

  • 03-01-2022 7:17pm
    #1
    VirginiaB
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭


    This is in regard to New York Archdiocese parish records on FindMyPast which of course are full of Irish people. I was told there are many more images than transcriptions of parish baptisms and marriages and these are not indexed so you can't search by name. I did stumble on a way to get to the list of parishes and succeeded in finding a long-elusive record. But I cannot for the life of me find out how to get there again--to that list of parishes. I have spent a lot of time clicking all over FMP, to no avail. I don't see an FMP forum such as Ancestry has. Any thoughts?

    Just found the answer and posting here in case anyone ever needs it. Click on the link below and search only by parish name. Don't add any other info or you will get 'No results' even tho it's there.

    https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-Records/new-york-catholic-parish-registers-browse

    Post edited by VirginiaB on


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  • #2
    mrslancaster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭mrslancaster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058225691/findmypast-how-to-search-records-by-parish

    theres nearly two hundred on that list 😂😂😂



  • #3
    VirginiaB
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭VirginiaB


    The hope is that you've narrowed your search down to a parish or two and a time frame. Then the search is not so overwhelming. Searching by the parish if the person's record is not yet indexed--and many are not--is the way to go.

    That goes for Catholic parish records in Ireland too, especially in view of the errors and omissions in the FMP and Ancestry indices.

    Post edited by VirginiaB on


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