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FREE access to Ancestry UK and Irish records this weekend
« on: Sunday 27 July 14 00:06 BST (UK) »
Can't see that this has been posted before (apologies if it has) but just spotted that Ancestry.co.uk has FREE access to all their Irish and UK records this weekend. So only tomorrow left really.
via Claire Santry's blog
http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2014/07/ancestrys-uk-irish-collection-is-free.html

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Re: FREE access to Ancestry UK and Irish records this weekend
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 27 July 14 18:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks! I saw it on the Common Room (I think) ...
 I've been looking at London Electoral Registers for the few family who emigrated to London.
 I found a few .. but it's one of the worst transcribed sites I've seen. Well, the names are ok, so I shouldn't complain, but the addresses are woeful! And it's a printed source.
Begg - Dublin, Limerick, Cardiff
Brady - Dublin
Breslin - Wexford, Dublin
Byrne - Wicklow
O'Hara - Wexford, Kingstown
McLoghlin - Roscommon
Lawlor - Meath, Dublin
Lynam - Meath and Renovo, Pennsylvania
Everard - Meath
Fagan - Dublin
Meyler/Myler - Wicklow
Gray - Derry, Waterford
Kavanagh - Limerick