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Hi Elizabeth:
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,000,000 surviving rcds for abt 65% 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 35%.
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 Cat(herine) Conroy M 1881 +/- 4 yrs somewhere in Ireland, I found 17 rcds: 2-1878 Galway, 3-1878 Down, 1878 Roscommon, 1878 Sligo, 1878 Roscommon, 2-1879 Roscommon, 1880 Louth, 2-1880 Galway, 2-1882 Mayo, 1883 Galway, and 1884 Kildare.
For Pat(rick) Regan M ditto, I found 43 rcds - too many to summarize here. However, NONE of these are even potential matches to those for Catherine. This implies: 1) the search range was incorrect. 2) The event wasn't rcd'd. 3) The rcds haven't been transcribed. 4) They married in America.
For Cat(herine) Conroy B 1860 +/- 4 yrs somewhere in Ireland with the father's forename unknown, I found 32 rcds - too many to summarize.
For Pat(rick) Regan B 1858 ditto, I found 92 rcds - waaay too many.
Suggest you scour naturalization papers (Google NARA), U.S. censuses (1880 & 1900), church rcds, other civil rcds, obits, etc, for more exact DOB, parent(s) name(s), and/or placename(s), etc to eliminate most of the false positives.
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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