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Thanks Heywood.

These are Ancestry hints relating to William Murphy b. 1872 Castlebar, brother of John and son of Thomas Murphy & Mary Kelly.

There's a hint for an 1872 birth in Claremorris, although I will disregard this as I already have the birth in Castlebar.

Then there is a death of a William Murphy in 1945 in Claremorris (a birth about 1872) - presume thats the chap above.

There's a petty session court register for William Murphy in 1898 who is resident in Ballyhaunis.

And finally a dog licence registration for a William Murphy of Ballyhaunis.

I am inclined to ignore all these hints, but I just wan't sure.

Pheno

Thank you for the info.  I have managed to trace the info through and there seems to be several trees on Ancestry containing some of these people that I will study - although the names are common.

Could I just ask, are the places Ballyhaunis and Claremorris in the Castlebar localityas there are some events recorded here but I am unsure as to whether they are near enough to consider?

Pheno

Am trying to create a basic tree on these people, a descendant of whom has a 35cM dna match with me on Ancestry.

Have not done any Irish research previously and really don't know where to start.  All I have is the above marriage from the Irish Civil Registration Marriage Indexes and I believe from looking at various Ancestry trees that there were 9 children of this marriage.

In order to make any kind of connection I need to go backwards from Kathleen & John and would be grateful for some pointers on where to start.

Although I have been doing genealogy for years I feel like a complete novice here.

Thanks in advance,  Pheno

But the principle is the same, Ancestry is only going to find the same dna matches to anyone whose dna is already in your tree, apart from any new matches which come through occasionally.

Pheno