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Clare
County, IRELAND
Clare
Genealogy
- Clare (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 Limerick,
they immediately think of County Limerick - they'd never
think of it having anything to co with County Clare and
genealogical research in County Clare.
There
is more to do with Clare Genealogy on the History &
people tables
Irish
Genealogy Research Service
(fee based)
England
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County
Clare, 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.
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