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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 parish, 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 the surname O'Meara (+variants) there are 9,047 B rcds dating from 1705 and 3,476 M rcds dating from 1750 in this database.
To find your Irish roots, get all the info you can from living relatives, ESPECIALLY older ones. They should remember their grandparents and possibly g-grandparents and yrs of birth of many.
Then find these family members in the U.S. Censuses for the relevant decades. When you come to the notation "born in Ireland" note the ages for these at the time of the census. From these, compute the DOB, and est the DOM.
From there, google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and search. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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