So the reason I’m blue in the face is not apnoea or an impending heart attack, it’s from telling people over and over and over that it makes no difference whether your Quin family have been insanely fussy about spelling…
Continue reading →When I get a chance (which won’t be until after Christmas), I’m going to post an entry about searching the Tithe Applotment Books for various ancestors. I think I have found my Lahey ancestors, for example, who emigrated to Upper…
Continue reading →Fiona Fitzsimons on the importance of Griffith’s Valuation as a “gateway” resource.
Continue reading →Here is the marriage record for Jeremiah McCarthy and Honora Donovan, who married on 5 February 1823. Witnesses to the marriage were Patrick Donovan and Richard Tobin; and the priest, the Rev. Richard Quinn, noted that a dispensation ‘in quarto…
Continue reading →In his Irish Roots column of 25 October, John Grenham writes of the NLI’s plans to digitize its collection of RC parish records: The National Library has recently put out a request for tender for the digitisation of all of…
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