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Ireland / Letter from GRO confirming a birth was not registered
« on: Friday 24 November 17 13:24 GMT (UK)  »
A family member wants to apply for Irish citizenship, to which she is entitled because her grandfather was born in Ireland. The difficulty is that her grandfather's birth appears not to have been registered. I read (in a recent copy of Irish Roots magazine) that she should get a letter from the Irish GRO confirming that the birth was not registered.

Does anyone have experience of obtaining such a letter?

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Sligo / Looking for a marriage in Riverstown or Taunagh
« on: Friday 17 November 17 18:19 GMT (UK)  »
I found a civil registration marriage certificate on irishgenealogy.ie, but can't find the corresponding Church marriage.

The marriage of Michael Reilly and Bridget McDonagh took place on 12th May 1874, at the Roman Catholic Chapel of Riverstown, Registration District Sligo.

I searched for Riverstown on https://registers.nli.ie and found it was an alternative name for Taunagh. There is a marriage register for this parish, covering 1874, but it doesn't seem to contain the marriage I want.

I think I must be in the right area, because the priest's name on the civil reg. certificate is given as Owen Feeny, and several marriages on the Church register (which is in Latin) have priest's name Eugene Feeny.

Can anyone help me find the Church register? I have checked the indexes on findmypast and ancestry, but found nothing.

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London and Middlesex / Updated London Poor Law records on ancestry
« on: Saturday 13 August 16 21:35 BST (UK)  »
I noticed this morning that "London, England, Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, 1430-1930" on ancestry has been updated.

I have found some good information in this record set in the past, so naturally I wanted to see what had been added, but I can't find any details anywhere. Can anyone help?

Looking through, the only new data I have found so far is in:
   Borough: Hackney
   Parish or Poor Law Union: Hackney
   Record Type: Register of Inmates
There are 8 new sections:
   1781-1807
   Register of inmates in the Workhouse, 1791-1807 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1887-1905 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1887-1931 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1899-1904 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1899-1926 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1904-1906 
   Workhouses and Institutions, 1906-1910 

If anyone else has noticed anything new then please post details here. It is a huge collection, mostly unindexed, so very time-consuming to search.

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