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