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emmsthheight
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Hi!
Barbara is an absolute gem!!
She's told us about a
There are | quite a number of entries for Ireland including the Dublin area. |
Thy one of the newspaper archives for a good start.
I've seen it elsewhere on Rootschat, but it's a huge database with entries in many newspapers, regional and national. Mine were large regionals. It also gives a full search with links to articles, and the search term is hi-lited on the scan.
I've just found thirty odd scans for two gggrandfathers of my own and one of my friends. They my have been famous or infamous, but even just had announcements for marriages etc .
Time's limitted. I couldn't just see how long or when.
Go to the link and give minimal info to register and you're straight in!
I got details for towns and cities in this country and Australia.
Good hunting!
Emms
http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/login.html
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Maggott
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Yup, it certainly looks promising - except that you need an institutional adress to register. So, no use to private researchers. Pity
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spof
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Hi Maggott
I tried it a few months ago and simply put in an address and keft the area for "Institution" blank. Maybe they hope word of mouth will make people ask for it at libraries etc.
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Bezant (London/Suffolk), West (London/Essex), Walker (Yorkshire), Phillips (West Country - believed Bristol area), Tibbetts (Warwickshire), Armstrong (Co Fermanagh), Harvison (Co Wexford), Neeb (Germany), Becker (Germany), Jakobsson (Finland). Kanneworff (Germany and Denmark)
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silvery
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Just put 'home' in for the institutional address. It works! (and everyone gets the same logon and passoword) Forget what they are now, password is 'books' I think.
ed: I think it's 'virtual' and 'books'.
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Maggott
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Thank you, everybody, for the advice (I give up too easily  ) I got into the site but couldn't find anything useful. So must try again tomorrow. So far lots of publishing info & booklists....
Thanks again
Maggott
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kidja
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Hi
You do not need an institutional address - i put my surname in the namwe of institution field and the first line of my address in the address field and it works fine.
Kidja
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bellew, neary co. meath, gleeson, shannon,shanahan, smythe co kildare, murphy, clarke, higgins, twyford, farrell co. wicklow
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Maggott
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Hi Kidja Yup, I got in ok. Yet to find anything really useful-any tips on navigation??
Best Maggott
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emmsthheight
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Hi
Glad you got in okay.
I've mainly used the various UK Newspapers and magazines.My Irish relatives mainly ended up nin the Salford and Manchester area of the UK, so those papers have come up, also lIVERPOOL.
I've also had quite a few entries from the Dublin and Belfast papers. No certs yet, but there hardly ever are wioth my Hoeys, you just keep plugging at the clues!
Some 19C marriages I knew about and were possibilities, I now have more detail and a church for.
If you've got an ancestor who rellay distinguished himself in the courts you're in with a really good chance!!
If you have too many results, and you really just want BMD's, click the people button on the left to limit the list.
Good hunting!
Emms
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Maggott
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Hi Emms & thank you for the encouragement. I'll keep looking
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kidja
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I found lots of useful information but the search criteria are key. For instance if you have ancestors in Dublin, Kildare or Wicklow key in the parish and the surname and you will find newspaper entries from 1890 to 1900 listing the donors for each parish to Pope Leo XIII's collection. This was published on 1st August for each of those years and it can help to pinpoint when your ancestor died for example.
I also used place names to good effect. Townlands are often too small so i went for the nearest larger town together with a surname and again found some useful information.
Kidja
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bellew, neary co. meath, gleeson, shannon,shanahan, smythe co kildare, murphy, clarke, higgins, twyford, farrell co. wicklow
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kidja
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hi ,
another thing - if you want to search on a full name enclose it in quotes eg "James Murphy"
Kidja
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