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- Cavan (History & people etc)
Google
Groups: Carlow,
Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly Ireland Genealogy A new
group that I set up recently. It's only got one member - me,
but then again, once upon a time Y-IRL the Yahoo group which
I created back in 2001 had only a few members and today, it's
one of the largest Irish Genealogy groups on the internet
Yahoo
Group : Ireland
Genealogy (Y-IRL) A group set up by me in 2001 and currently
with over 1700 members
I
don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting of
names on a family tree, instead I like to know about the people,
how they lived and the places they lived in. There are lots
of people who are not like me, who do like to know just the
names and where they came from. The pages linked to below
are pretty much to do with pure genealogy (but a little bit
of the other thrown in!).
To
my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one of the
most valuable and ignored tools for genealogists or family
historians because it gives us alternative names and spellings
of parish names, also, most importantly it names the religious
parishes which cover any civil parish. I find that people
generally do not understand the Civil Registration Districts
and the fact that a district can cover townlands in different
counties. If anyone (myself included before I got to know
all this) thinks of Enniskillen, they immediately think
of County Fermanagh, same for Granard it would be Longford
- they'd never think of it having anything to co with County
Cavan and genealogical research in County Cavan.
There
is more to do with Cavan Genealogy on the History &
people tables
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Antrim, history, geography, genealogy, people
Every
time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything about
education or emigration on any of the mail lists I have been
subscribed to I always think of the 1931 descriptions of the
counties in Ireland which I have on line. At the end of every
county description there are tables listing the figures for
emigration from the county, education in the county, whether
or not the people speak Irish, and a breakdown of the religious
denominations in the county taken from various census returns
from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions are of historical
and genealogical importance.
The
Official Authority listings for the counties listed below
include the addresses of the people named, some of whom
were lviing in County Cavan. The Diocescan listings were
one of the first sets of pages I created for this web site,
because sometime way back then I had read that when a man
qualified as a priest he was usually put back into his own
parish, originally I had considered these tables of importance
because they told us the names of the Roman Catholic parishes
in a Diocese in 1836 (which sometimes changed over the years)
and they also told us the name of the closest post town
- this never changed. So, to me, these lists help if I am
looking for a Roman Catholic parish which no longer exists.
I find the name of the closest post town to where-ever it
is I am looking for information about and then I find the
records which co exist for that area, regardless of the
name.
Lists
such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers, the
Admiralty Examinations, the General Synod, the Presbyterian
Synod - these can apply to any county - they are of genealogical
& historical value.
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