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Donegal
County, Ireland
There
are over 2000 pages on this web site, created over the last six years,
new pages are added constantly. It is not possible to link all these
pages to any one section of the site. Please use the search
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Donegal
Genealogy
- Donegal (History & people etc) - Donegal
Maps, Old & Current
Geography
Index - St. Cronan's
school. If you want to check out mountains and rivers in Ireland.
Some of the links on this page do require that you are a student
in St. Cronan's, but then some do not
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19th
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Genealogy
Donegal
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 Londonderry, they immediately
think of County Londondery or Derry, or Strabane, they think of
County Tyrone- they'd never think of it having anything to do with
County Donegal and genealogical research in County Donegal.
There
is more to do with Donegal Genealogy on the History & people
tables
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County
Donegal, 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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