Longford County, Ireland, ©Jane Lyons

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.

There is more to do with Longford Genealogy on the History & people tables

Lewis Topographical Dictionary Longford Co Index. (Parishes, towns, villages)

Longford Civil Registration Districts

Presbyterian Exodus Co. Longford 1729

The Great Hibernian Central Junction Railway

1931 directories : Granard

Diocese of Ardagh Will Index - some Longford people Ardagh Will index

St. Marys Graveyard, Delvin, Co. Westmeath - Bond name

Termonfeckin graveyard, Co. Louth - Bowyer name

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.