Re: Donohue/O'Rourke/Lyons RI
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Donohue/O'Rourke/Lyons RI
Corby O'Connor 10/11/08
Hello O'Rourke:
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,000,000 surviving rcds for abt 65% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 35%.
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 Mich(ael) Lyons M 1848 +/- 1 yr somewhere in Ireland, I found 4 rcds: 2-1847 Limerick, 1847 Galway, and 1848 Cork.
For Ann Donohue M ditto, I found 4 rcds: 1848 Cork, 1848 Cavan, 1848 Longford, and 1849 Mayo. This is a NO match situation. Suggest you expand the search range.
For Ann Donohue B 1827 +/- 4 yrs somewhere in Ireland with a father forenamed James, I found 8 rcds: 1824 Limerick, 1826 Dublin, 1827 Meath, 1829 Wicklow, 1829 Westmeath, 1829 Dublin, 1831 Westmeath, and 1831 Longford.
For James Donohue M 1823 +/- 4 yrs somewhere in Ireland, I found 11 rcds: 1819 Limerick*, 1820 Cavan, 1821 Tipperary, 1822 Limerick, 1822 Mayo, 1824 Galway, 1825 Leitrim, 1825 Meath, 1825 Westmeath, 1827 Galway*, and 1827 Kilkenny.
For Mary Rourke M ditto, I found 33 rcds. Only the asterisked items are POTENTIAL matches. Will leave it to you to search the parishes within Limerick and Galway for a match at that level.
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: Donohue/O'Rourke/Lyons RI
Corby O'Connor 6/14/09