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From: ConnorsGenealogy <>
Subject: Re: [NY IRISH] recommendations for researcher in Ireland
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:37:04 -0700
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>I'm interested in getting feedback from others on whether it's wise to use a professional researcher when I don't know where in Ireland my family comes from.
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I don't recommend this unless you have the county. Doing your work here
is most important before going to Ireland. Try finding his death date
to look for obituaries, death cert, graveyard transcriptions...not all
give county of birth but *some* do and you just never know.

The reason I don't suggest you hire a researcher in Ireland is that most
of the censuses from before 1901 have been destroyed. So they rely on
church records for family research and they are indexed by diocese but
not by the country....so if you know the county, each county has a
research centre with the church records indexes. There is the
Griffifths Valuation conducted in Ireland 848 to 1865, the years are
different for different counties. This is a list of head of
householders who leased property. With a name like John O'Neil,
however, it would be impossible to figure out which is yours.

If you use this surname website, you can find which counties your
surname was found in the GV and the number of times it was found:
http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm
Using this and putting LOUTH, a much less common name, you find it only
in 8 counties. Using the Second Surname search to see where both LOUTH
and O'NEIL were found, none were found but if you put in O'NEILL, you
will get some. These counties might be where you would want to start
searching.

All the county research centres can be found at this website:
http://www.irishroots.net/

--
Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
http://www.connorsgenealogy.com
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