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Armagh
Genealogy
- Armagh (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 Castleblayney, they immediately think
of County Monaghan - they'd never think of it having anything
to co with County Armagh and genealogical research in County
Armagh. My version of the Griffiths Primary Valuation differs
from that which you find in the Griffiths CD in that I list
the names of the people who were the 'Immediate Occupiers'
and how many times a persons name is listed as having land
in any townland.
There
is more to do with Armagh Genealogy on the History & people
tables
Marriages,
1st Keady Presbyterian Church, Co. Armagh, 1861-63. Donated by
Dick Dunlap, click on image
Irish
Genealogy Research Service
(fee based)
England
Top Databases 
Ireland
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County
Armagh, 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 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 loking 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. The Frenchman's Walk gives me impressions of places at
that time, the names of people he met - genealogical & historical.
O.C*
= Official Authorities. Other county links are given when people
from Antrim are mentioned on those county pages
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