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Family Tree

  • 24-03-2013 7:29pm
    #1
    croninmccarthy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Hello all.

    I am looking to trace family members beyond the census of 1901.
    Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,181 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The sticky at the top of the forum has most of the advice in it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055756331

    As does this site: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/

    Simplest thing to do is to try and find the birth and marriage certs for any ancestors you've found on the 1901 census. These will contain the details of their parents, and you can work back from there. Registration started for everyone in 1864 although some births weren't registered in the few years after that. You can get 'research' certs for €4 each if you know the references, which those two sites will explain how to find.

    Also, some form of software for recording what you've found and taking notes is fairly essential unless you just want to work on paper. Paper becomes next to impossible when you have 'interesting' events such as brothers marrying sisters or remarriages or someone marrying a woman, then her cousin, or other such oddities that I've hit...


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