| Genealogy - Family history
studies. |
| This will be where people can submit queries
or family history information for inclusion on the website.The links to
Mayo and Galway
genealogical sources contain information relating to census , census subtitutes
, books , journals and estate records. |
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| Genealogy record for the Egan family from Shrule and Brackloon |
| Genealogy record for the Carty family from Brackloon |
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| Genealogy guestbook. |
| You may add a comment or query relating to family
history issues here and hopefully somebody will be able to assist in your
enquiry . |
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You chose the John McGing entry |  | John McGing | | Columbia, Maryland USA | | Nice site! While my people are from Tourmakeady, I do McGing surname genealogy and we have people from the Shrule area, and this site helped me get a feel for the town and environs. Keep up the good work. | | http://www.mcging.org | | | John McGing
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| Search for your ancestors. |
| There is an ancestor
search page which allows you to search Griffith's Valuation (1855) as
well as baptism and marriage records (1833 to 1899). There is also a
placename search page which allows you to find a local placename and
its details . There are maps available for each civil parish aswell as parish
location maps for Mayo and Galway
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| There are two ways to search for genealogical
or family history data on the site . The first is to use the ancestor search
page and look for a name. The other option is to search for a placename
and when you view the townland record for this place you will have the option
of viewing all the records in the database for that place. EG you can view
all records from the Tithe Applotments (1830's) , Griffith's Valuation (1850's)
or the 1901 census for a townland and any records which do not have a definite
townland will be available as an option on the Civil Parish details page..
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| Therefore if you wanted to view the records from
the Tithe Applotments database for the Civil Parish of Shrule you would
do so in the following manner : |
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Search for Shrule in the placenames search page. |
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Select the Civil Parish of Shrule from the list of matching entries. |
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The page returned will give all details of the Civil Parish of Shrule
including a list of official townland names. |
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Select the view records from this parish where the location is unknown
. This gives all records for the parish where the placename in the
records is no longer used and it's location is now unknown. |
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The rest of the records are available under the official townland
detail pages . So if you want all the tithe applotment records for
Dalgan Demesne , select it from the townland list . |
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In the townland detail page for Dalgan Demesne select the View All
option for tithe applotments . |
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| Obviously if you wanted all the records for Shrule you
could systematically go to each townland and select all records BUT
if you want a copy of the Griffiths or Tithe applotment records for
a parish just email me and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet
or text file - which ever is required . |
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| Acknowledgements |
| Fr.Michael Crosby P.P. for typing
in baptism , marriage and death records and his ongoing work computerising
the Shrule parish records and preserving the heritage of the area. |
| Michael Carroll and Joe Lalley
for access to their
Lalley.com database of Griffiths Valuation and 1901 census information from Killursa
and Headford DED's. |
| Robert Dooley for the 1796 Flax
Growers List . |
| M.Johnson , J. Doherty , E.Finnerty
, J.Muldoon , S.Ryan , T.Moran and hopefully lots more ... who have sent
photographs to the site. |
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| General information
pages. |
| Here follows some general information
relating to family history and Irish records available to the public . Most
of the material is sourced from the internet and links to the original sites
are included . The information is summarised so a visit to the relevant
sites is worthwhile if you are interested |
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| Genealogical information. |
| Records of many kinds have been kept in Ireland since the
Middle Ages. Unfortunately fire, carelessness and theft have caused the
loss and destruction of much of this material. |
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| Many records of the Court of Chancery were lost
by fire in 1304. In the mid 1530s, records maintained in Dublin Castle became
so subject to pilfering that they were moved to the more secure Bermingham
Tower, which then became the main repository of Irish records; unfortunately
it burned down in 1758 with the loss of many documents. Other records had
already been lost in 1711 when another fire, this time in the Customs House,
destroyed books belonging to the Surveyor General. |
| The creation of the Commission of Public Records
in 1810 made provision for the systematic collation and archiving of national
records. |
| The Public Record Office was opened in 1867 and
from then until around 1922, the Office was the centre for the collection
and cataloguing of national records. Unfortunately, this building suffered
devastating damage during the Civil War in 1922 and many records were destroyed,
in particular the nineteenth century census returns, Church of Ireland parish
records and the enormous collection of original wills. In the years following
this loss, great efforts were made to unearth substitutes and many of the
gaps can now be filled through the use of secondary material collections
- partial transcripts or abstracts, researchers' notes, census substitutes
etc. In 1988, the Public Record Office was amalgamated with the State Paper
Office and renamed the National Archives of Ireland. In 1992, it moved from
its old home in the grounds of the Four Courts to new custom-bulit premises
in Bishop Street |
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| One further factor also needs to be borne in
mind by any genealogical researcher. Northern Ireland was established in
1921 and the Irish Free State in 1922. Some of the records concerning the
six counties, which were previously held in Dublin, were moved to the North
- so a researcher may have to follow such records, although copies of most
of the records moved can still be found in Dublin. Some anomalies do still
exist, such as the fact that the Census Records covering the six counties
for 1911 are still covered by the 100 year rule North of the border but
these census records including the six counties are freely available in
the South |
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