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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.
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is more to do with Longford Genealogy on the History & people
tables
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County
Longford, 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 Longford. 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.
Discovery
Map 33
: parts
of Co's Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo & Longford (General area:
Carrick-on-Shannon, Boyle, Roosky, Mohill & Strokestown)
Discovery Series Map 34:
parts
of Co's Cavan, Leitrim, Longford, Meath & Westmeath. (General
area: Cavan, Ballyjamesduff, Granard, Arvagh, and Killeshandra)
Discovery Series Map 41:
parts
of Co's Longford, Meath & Westmeath. (General Area: Oldcastle,
Castlepollard, Edgewardstown, Granard, Longford)
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