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I can be considered first generation American. My mother was born in Ireland.

All my grandparents came from Ireland in the early 1900s and were stereotypical immigrants .... a policeman, a stonemason, a seamstress.

I'd like to get an Irish passport. I am qualified, but the difficulty is proving it. There was a large fire in the registry in Dublin in the 1920s, and many records were destroyed. Without a birth certificate, it's a problem.

My sister and brother-in-law were in Ireland last year, and could find no records of either birth, or christening in the local churches where my mother was born.