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From: pat lewis <>
Subject: Fwd: checking birth registrations
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:28:43 -0400

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> From: pat lewis <>
> Date: July 3, 2005 3:27:00 PM EDT
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> Subject: checking birth registrations
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> Just because you do not find a birth registration in area you are
> looking does NOT mean they weren't in the area, you are checking.
> Many Irish didn't register children because for different reason IE:
> they didn't trust the English ways, and/or didn't want information
> given out because of taxation rules, or just didn't want to be found,
> and that held true even as to the USA and census.
> And they often registered the child years later than when born. It is
> unfortunate that registration for Irish wasn't recognized until 1864
> and therefore data cannot be found unless you actually know for sure
> that family was in a certain parish and the registers of parish are
> open for searching, be it England or Ireland
> I have had this problem for over 40 years of research, as my family
> just did NOT register
> I only have one census record of them actually existing back in 1910,
> and never found again in a census of 1920 or 1930, altho they stilled
> lived in same area.
> I had one organization tell me the family could NOT have been in
> England in 1861, as they found no registration of birth of 2 children,
> one in 1858 the other in 1859.
> Tho, the family as a whole were found on the census with the children
> listed in 1861 with ages of children and births stated in W. Drayton,
> Moddlesex. Two others born in Harlington where they moved found in
> 1871 - 1881 & 1891 census.
> Just keep plodding along eventually the wall has to come down.
>

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