Re: John Patrick McAllen aka McAllan ancestry/decendants
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John Patrick McAllen aka McAllan ancestry/decendants
Veda Burridge 9/12/09
He Veda:
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,800,000 surviving rcds for abt 70% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800. Cos. Donegal and Derry were recently added to the database.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 30%.
Note 2 - Only 1/2 of Co. Cork's rcds are in this database.
Note 3 - The RC church kept control over most parish rcds from Tipperary (north). These are ONLY available thru the Tipperary Family History Research center at a substantial fee (regardless of outcome).
For John McAllen B 1814 (exact), somewhere in Ireland, with the father's forename unknown, I found 4 rcds: Westmeath, Limerick, Galway, and Antrim. The Antrim rcd is most likely the correct one as the rcds are listed in chronological order. The father's forename for the Antrim rcd is Robert.
Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and browse. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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Re: John Patrick McAllen aka McAllan ancestry/decendants
Linda Caldwell 6/22/12