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"Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thainig thu"
~Remember the men from whom you are sprung ~

An Irish Blessing
 May you be poor in misfortune,
 rich in blessings,
 slow to make enemies, 
 quick to make friends, 
 but rich or poor, 
 quick or  slow,
 may you know nothing but happiness
 from this day forward.

Jan 23, 2002

Barbara Lavin
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Hi, my name is Barbara Lavin, and I am your county coordinator/hostess. Please bookmark this site, as things could change regularly. Hopefully you'll see new and exciting things. I hope you enjoy your visit, and come again soon.

Useful Irish Information:
Griffiths Valuation, a property assessment of all properties in Ireland, took place during the years 1848 to 1864.

Need a birth certificate or a marriage certificate from Ireland??

Birth certificates include the date and place of birth; the name; the sex; the name, surname and residence of the father; the name, surname, maiden surname of the mother; the rank, profession or occupation of the father; and the name and qualifications of the informant, usually a family member. A given name was not obligatory, so some entries are Kelly, Male or Clarke, Female. The FHLC holds microfilm copies of the index and certificates for 1864-1955.

Marriage certificates include the date and place of marriage; groom's name, age, marital status, occupation or title, and residence; bride's name, marital status, age, occupation or title, and residence. The names of the fathers of both parties and their occupations or titles are given which makes them particularly relevant to genealogy. The church and the names of two witnesses are also listed. Witnesses to the marriage are commonly family members and may add clues to family linkages. Full age indicates that the person was at least 21 years old.

Registration of non-Catholic marriages began in 1845 in Ireland. Registration of births, marriages and deaths, regardless of religion, began January 1, 1864. Certificates for births, marriages and deaths for all of Ireland until 1922 and for the Republic until the present are housed in Dublin. Belfast has the records for Northern Ireland from 1922 to present.
General Register Office
Joyce House
8-11 Lombard St.
East, Dublin 2

Fees are payable in Euro Dollars. A photocopy of an entry will contain the same details as a certificate but is not suitable for administrative matters. However, it is ideal for genealogical purposes. What is required for search: Name in full, date of event, place of event.
http://eurotrip.com/exchangerates.html or
http://quote.yahoo.com/m3?u or
http://www3.travelocity.com/converter/ to get the currency exchange rate for the day.

Looking for your seaman?
For those wishing to trace the career of a British merchant seaman, the following information may be useful.
Official Logs of British Merchants
Seaman's Career
Death of a British merchant seaman at sea.
Tracing a seaman in any one of the census years
Tracing the career of a Customs or Excise Officer
Trawlers
20th Century career of a British Merchant Seaman
Researching the career of a British Master Mariner
Master Mariner
First Steam Ship to cross the Atlantic
The White Star Line
Crew lists and related documents
contributed by Debbie Beavis
To find out more join The Mariner's Mailing list
Need a picture of a ship - type of?


List of contact addresses for various archives, maritime organisations or institutions whose collections include the primary documents required in tracing British Merchant and Royal Navy ships and seamen.
The Public Record Office,
Ruskin Avenue,
Kew,
Surrey, TW9 4DU
0181-876-3444

The Family Record Centre,
Myddleton Place,
London EC1 1UW
0181-392-5300

The National Maritime Museum
Romney Road,
Greenwich,
London SE10 9NF
0181-858-4422

The Guildhall Library
Aldermanbury,
London EC2P 2EJ
0171-606-3030

The Registry of Shipping and Seamen,
Anchor House,
Cheviot Close,
Parc-Ty-Glas,
Llanishen,
Cardiff CF4 5JA

Lloyds Register of Shipping
100 Leadenhall Street,
London,
EC3A 3BP

Maritime History Archive
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John's,

Newfoundland,
Canada A1C 5S7

Ministry of Defence
CS(R)2E,
Bourne Avenue,
Hayes,
Middlesex


What are Sealings for Dead?
"Sealings for the Dead" have to do with the LDS religion. They believe that if they search and find their ancestry they can take each ancestor into the temple and have them baptized and sealed.

The Ancestral Files found on the LDS family search are generally families who have been sealed.

Lookup Volunteers:

You are cordially invited to sign up to be a Mayo Volunteer. We could not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to find Angus ancestors. We would love to have your help.

Willing to help? What do you do?

You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information.

Please e-mail me if you are interested
Barbara Lavin

An alternative to lookups...Indices:

Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the old Kildare history books? This would be a once and done, permanent help to all of us doing research

New Mayo Queries:
The new queries will be posted automatically.

The instructions are below:
    1...Place ALL SURNAMES (within your query) in CAPS.
    2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear.
    3...Please, KILDARE QUERIES ONLY..
    4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your whole queryis in caps
    5...No more then 3 surnames per query please. It makes it to hard to follow

Visit our query Board

If you have any additions or corrections to this list, please let me know. Send email to Admin
 


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This page orginally created 01 October 1998 for
the IrelandGenWeb/ BritishIsles GenWebProject
and is now the proud participant in the Ireland Genealogy Project

 

 

IGP

Former Admins

Loretta Barnard

Barbara Lavin

Ireland Coordinator:
Don Kelly

Mayo Archives new

Cemetery Transcriptions new


Mayo Homepages

HAGERTY-LAVERTY--COSTELLO-JOYCE

O'CONNOR ~ Ó CONCHÚIR ~ Ó Conchobhair

LOFTUS Family website
Not just a homepage but has some great Irish links too!!!

Seans Irish Adventure

Paflika Family
Irish names:
GAUGHAN,GADWAY,MULLADY

"James Kelly Sites" jimkell16@verizon.net


Moyne Abbey

Catholic Encyclopedia -  Killala

Tour of Killala and Ballina

Views of Killala

Wikipedia Killala

Pigot's Directory 1824

Slater's Directory 1846

Ceide Fields

Ballycastle

Mayo Towns & Ballycastle
 


Mayo Links

Adoptees from Mayo

Mayo Genealogy Queries

County Mayo Genealogy Links and Chat

Mayo - GenForum

Irish Genealogy - Mayo
Has some cemetery records on it

Mayo Irish To America

Mayo Links

Family Heritage Centre,  near Crossmolina, on land of Enniscoe Estate home to a forge and a heritage museum.

The Mayo South Family Heritage Centre,  on Main Street, Ballinrobe. If your people came from the Westport and Clew Bay area (Achill Island to Louisburgh) you should also contact the

Clew Bay Heritage Centre.

Mayo Map

History of County Mayo on the West Coast of Ireland

FULL NAME INDEX TO HOUSEHOLDERS FOR GRIFFITH'S PRIMARY VALUATION, COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND

History of County Mayo on the West Coast of Ireland

County Mayo Roman Catholic Church Records

Out of Mayo Ireland

Mayo Family Research Centres
has some great information on where to do genealogical research in County Mayo. A must see

Unoffical Mayo Website

The Professional Genealogical Research Service... Mayo

GenUKI - Mayo

Mid West Radio, Mayo, Ireland


Resources

Genealogy Resources on the Internet
pages maintained by John and Chris Gaunt


Media


Passenger Ship Lists
On Rootsweb

Search the Archives of RootsWeb mailing lists

Except those withdrawn by the listowner

Surname Helper


Irish Resources
1824 Survey of Irish Schools

 

The IGSI Bookstore -- Maps

Ireland Map & Placename Index

Irish Ancestors
For the 1851 Townlands Index.

Irish Family Gatherings
The A to Z guide of Irish Genealogy

Irish Genealogy and Coats of Arms
A place to buy how to guides

Local Ireland

The Tide of Emigration to The United States And to The British Colonies.
 

1845 - 1852 YEARS OF INFAMY

The Irish Times

The National Library of Ireland

Libraries in Ireland to 1850
2 are listed

The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA)

Index to Irish Genealogy Guide

Ireland & Northern Ireland - Cyndi's List

Irish Ancestors
a comprehensive genealogical guide for those interested in exploring their Irish heritage.

Genealogical Guide to Ireland

The Fianna: Irish Ancestry & History Research
maintained by Janet Cowan

Irish Passenger ships
maintained by Janet Cowan
Military Sites & Records
maintained by Janet Cowan

Irish Surnames and Irish Descendants' homepages
maintained by Janet Cowan


United Kingdom and Ireland

List of seamen, captain, crew,firemen, pursers, etc

National Maritime Museum

Public Record Office - National Archives

Royal Naval Reserves

Ancestor Registry Index

UK and Ireland

The UK Street Map Page
Mapquest
both offer online contemporary maps of the UK and the world respectively. As far as the UK goes, UK Streetmap provides more detail.


International Resources

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars.

Ships Arriving US From Europe (1797 - 1930)
If you know the date,
and the name of the ship
you can find the port of entry!!!
Has:
Ships 1890 - 1930
Early Records Prior to 1890
All Ships by Date -
new as of 12 Apr 98
IRISH Immigrants
German Immigrants from Russia
Emigrants from the Waasland
(Flanders, Belgium )

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

Library Sources
It is identified as:
WWW Interface to Manuscript files in RLIN/Eureka:
The Library of Congress has made available this web site of approximately 400,000 records from archival collections in libraries, museums, state archives and historical societies throughout North America.

The Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies
It directs you to the home pages of the different countries you're researching. For example, there is a "Prussia Home Page" for those whose roots are in "Germany."

Libraries,Societies,and Museums in North America with French-Canadian Genealogical or Historical Collections
In text format.
May help you with both your Canadian and American Ancestors. Has many addresses in both countries which may help you with your search

Irish Emigrants
Wonderful site!!!! Has some lists of ships - BUT it has the entire list of the passengers where they came from and where they landed

Accessing Telephone Records
International People finder
International Phone Book

 

Genealogy Resources on the Internet
Has Adoption and other great information

Translation of documents
This Altavista site will translate several languages. Text can be copied & pasted into the translator and you will get the translation. I thought it may be of some help.


Misc. Resources

FamilyTree
A MUST see!!!

Genealogy Charts and Forms
Ancestors Charts and Records

GebCom Files Revealed
Ever want to know about Gedcom files??

 

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