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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 15 Send Message	Catherine	Report	9 May 2004 14:06
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 15 Send Message	I am tracing my birth mother who is living in Cork, I have only her maiden name and roughly how old she is Once I find her birth cert, how do I continue to trace from there. Thanks Cath
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 2,513 Send Message	Sheila	Report	9 May 2004 14:23
	Hi Catherine, I have just e-mailed you. Regards Sheila
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	9 May 2004 14:24
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Catherine I believe it's more tricky tracing Irish records (I currently have an adoption researcher looking for my birth father), but once you have the birth certificate, you would need to start looking through electoral registers then onto marriages to see if there was a name change. Back to electoral registers again and also looking for any further births under her married name. I'm sure there will be someone a bit more knowledgeable than me, as due to various circumstances I had an adoption researcher doing my tracing rather than doing it myself. Hope that this might be a bit of help though.