Two guys in the US doing a surname/two specific Y haplogroups study in to my surname/Y haplogroup messaged me via GEDMatch and want to pay for a full Y panel.
It's not like I'm hiding my DNA testing info online as it is, and I was going to do it anyway but I still find it just a tiny bit odd! Going to go for it though.
Delighted to see it's back in action again!
It's rockin' for me now!
Hopefully, I have my list at the ready for when it's back.
I've just tried it now and no joy.
Hopefully they sort it out early Monday.
Thanks @Hermy. I still can't get into the site. Hopefully it will be back again soon.
Haven't been researching much the last couple of days so hadn't noticed any issues.
Just wondering if anyone has heard about work being done on the irishgenealogy.ie website. It was down on Thursday night, was fine last night, and now it's down again this morning. Thanks.
The offer seems to be for some only. My cousin, also in the US, didn't get it. She did get an offer to upgrade at a discount.
I've seen it mentioned in some FB groups today - available on the .com only, but not sure if that means you can just avail if you log in there.
I am paying for it all the time: it's fantastic.
It appeared on my Ancestry page yesterday evening when I checked my matches, which I do several times a day. It was just there in my matches. I didn't have to click on anything to apply it. Pro Tools are free thru 3 September as well as a 30% off the usual price offer for Pro Tools, also thru 3 September. I would have to sign up for that offer.
I have texted several cousins here in the US to see if they have it but haven't heard back yet.
Where did you see that offer Virginia?
Was it on the website or was it mentioned elsewhere?
I'm not seeing it either via the .co.uk site or the .com site.
I don't know if this is limited to certain areas only but as of this evening, Ancestry is offering free access to its Pro Tools through 3 September. I am in the US and do have a worldwide membership, if that makes any difference. It's the first time I've seen such an offer.
Drove myself (more) mental trying to find a family on the 1911 census.
Had a lightbulb moment and there they were, as Gaeilge.
It took me quite a while before the lightbulb came on.
Not an expert, but if your ancestors were Catholic, the ideal FMP records for you are the Roman Catholic Parish baptism, marriage and deaths records. Free to browse on nli.ie but indexed on FMP.
Thank you, the information is only four years more than the census but everything helps .
John Grenham has his copy of those online
https://www.johngrenham.com/dcla/burgesses/
Just discovered the online electoral registers for 1908-15 were taken down back in March (maybe everyone here knew this already). Can only be accessed in person at Pearse St library now. So dissapointing.
FMP has a different selection of newspapers to INA so you might be lucky and find newspaper refs to ancestors, FMP also has trade/street directories, although searching them can be very frustrating because of the way FMP displays the search results.
I am not a subscriber to Findmypast at the moment. But it can be used to search for church records where it will throw up results that I can then use to access the free microfiche records on the Irish website. Much easier to find a record when you have a year/parish suggestion.
Thanks for that. I have signed up. I would welcome advice from the experts here on what might be beneficial to try.
I have developed a reasonably extensive tree based on using irish genealogy.ie (for baptisms and marriages which are happily available for the area that interests me in Cork plus civil registrations), ancestry.com especially for US links, irish newspaper archives and Census of course. I can trace a direct line back to c.1800 and am reasonable happy I have good detail of the immediate linkages from c. 1860 (siblings of grand parent - yes I am of an age where my grandfather was born in 1860) but would like to be able to get more on 1800 - 1860 (siblings of direct ancestors, etc). Does FMP have anything in particular that may help?
Claire Santry posts on her website today that all of FindMyPast's records are open and free this weekend thru Monday 10 June 2024 at 10am. There are just two exceptions. This is to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. You can read the details here https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/
Thanks, that sounds useful. The website suggests up to 5 queries per consultation, I will choose carefully.
If you have an address, DCLA will do a look up on them for you, but nothing speculative.
I found out that he died in late 1954, so not too far off, the register definitely narrowed down my search, I also found his wife's death based on her disappearance from the register, Murphy's are not easy to track!
I have one of a woman record with her sister up to 1945 but she married in 1940, she doesn’t appear on the register under her married name until 1949 with her husband.
Her husband was very political and spent time in prison during the 1940s so that may explain it, but clearly she didn’t inform them of her change of surname, perhaps because of who her husband was.
Registers used to be quite up to date, the rates collectors updated them. DOB is not recorded
Since the end of domestic rates, they have been appalling. Former rental house a few doors down from me has ten people registered none of whom still live there - it's empty!
That's disappointing alright, I had made a couple of discoveries, but hadn't recorded them sufficiently to follow them up and now I can think of so many more searches I would like to have done.
How well maintained were the registers, for example, I was able to see a person in them at the same address up to 55/56, but not in 56/57 (but another member of the household continues to appear), given he was born in the 1880's it is reasonable to assume he died around then, but how long would it have taken to be removed from the register. He has a common enough name but is not one of the 10 people with that name who died in 1956.
I had a second example of a man who died in 1936, but was still on the register in 1944, I am told he had a son with the same name, who I have never been able to find a trace of, wondering if this is just non-removal from the register or possibly evidence of a son?
Do the actual registers contain any additional information like age or date of birth?
Is there any way to get information from the registers without going in person, I don't live in Dublin.
I wasn't aware that anything had changed since the last time the registers were taken down so, though I'm very disappointed, I'm not at all surprised that they didn't stay online very long.
Marketing purposes recently stopped, but any register pre 1990s was signed up for in full knowledge that it was open season
