Seeking Fitzsimons relatives

Hi,

Thank you very much for your message. I am very sorry for the delay in responding to you. I hope that you have had a lovely visit and that you were able to find some information on your ancestors while you were over here.

Did you know that Irish Genealogy have started a project to upload church records to their website free of charge? Only a small number of counties have been completed so far including Dublin and part of Cork. Hopefully you should be able to find records pertaining to Charles here. Also, if Anne was from Bandon, records from this parish are also available:

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/

Another useful website when it comes to Catholic records is the Irish Times where they give an overview of what records are available in specific parishes. For Clondalkin follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Dublin&CityCounty=Dublin&parish=Clondalkin&churchid=470

For Bandon follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Cork%20South-West&parish=Bandon&churchid=17

Also, civil registration began in Ireland in 1864 so any births, deaths or marriages in the family after this date would be recorded in these records. Civil records are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

Have you tried looking in the 1901/1911 census records to see if there was any family still in the area at the time? You can do this online at:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

Some other websites that you may find useful when researching your family history are:

The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/

The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx

Dublin Heritage: http://www.dublinheritage.ie/

Genealogy Links Dublin: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/dublin/index.html

Genealogy Links Cork: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/cork/index.html

Family Search: www.familysearch.org

I hope that some of these are helpful and once again I am very sorry that we missed your visit. Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support