Are there independent public records (parish or sacramental) confirming Renee Good's membership in a specific Catholic parish?

1. Where the canonical records live — parish-by-parish custody, not a single public registry

The Archdiocese and diocesan guidance in the reporting make plain that sacramental registers are maintained at the parish level rather than in a single, public, searchable database — researchers are told to contact the parish that holds the record or consult diocesan lists of record locations if a parish has closed ^{[1] [2]}. This decentralized custodial practice is reiterated for multiple U.S. dioceses and states: “each parish maintains its own sacramental records” is the norm cited for New York, Texas, California and elsewhere ^{[4] [5] [1]}.

2. Digital indexes exist but are incomplete and gated

Commercial and non-profit digitization projects (Findmypast, Ancestry, FamilySearch and related Catholic Heritage Archive efforts) have made many parish registers searchable online, but coverage is partial, subject to cutoffs (for example a 100-year cut-off for some marriage indexes), and not every parish is online yet; researchers are advised to check parish lists and the specific coverage dates for any collection ^{[3] [6] [7] [8]}. Furthermore, some repositories require membership or on-site access to see original images ^{[3] [9]}.

3. Privacy and access limits — sacramental records are not straightforwardly “public”

Diocesan policy documents cited in the reporting explicitly state sacramental records are not public records and that certified copies or searches typically require direct requests to the parish or archives and sometimes proof of identity or a fee ^{[2] [1]}. Several diocesan pages warn that cemetery or death records may remain at parishes or other offices, complicating a researcher’s ability to confirm events via a single public portal ^{[2] [10]}.

4. What a positive confirmation would look like, and why it’s absent here

Given the structure described by the sources, an independent confirmation that Renee Good “is a member” of a specific parish would normally come from a parish register entry (baptism, marriage, confirmation, or a parish membership roll) or a digitized image/index entry from a trusted archive (Findmypast/FamilySearch/Ancestry) cited to a parish register ^{[3] [6] [8]}. None of the supplied sources contain such an entry naming Renee Good, and therefore the supplied reporting does not provide the independent parish or sacramental record needed to confirm membership.

5. Alternative possibilities that the sources allow — records may exist but were not supplied

It remains possible that sacramental records establishing Renee Good’s parish ties exist in an undigitized parish register, in a diocesan archive not included in the dataset, or in a commercial index behind a paywall; several sources note many parishes and periods are not yet online and that additional registers are continually added ^{[3] [11] [7]}. The reporting also shows diocesan archives are actively assisting genealogical searches and that request procedures exist for certified copies, so an absence in these sources is not proof of nonexistence — only an absence of provided evidence ^{[2] [1]}.

6. Practical next steps implied by the reporting to obtain an independent confirmation

The documented path to verification is procedural: identify the likely parish (using diocesan parish finders or local guides), consult digitized parish lists and indexes such as Findmypast and FamilySearch for the relevant dates and registers, and if indexes are silent, submit a records request to the parish or diocesan archives following their published genealogy policy ^{[3] [6] [2] [1]}. The reporting makes clear that in many U.S. dioceses the parish remains the primary custodian and the practical gateway to sacramental confirmations ^{[1] [5]}.