Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Topics - DarrenO

Pages: [1] 2 3 4
1
Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / DNA testing is it worth it
« on: Tuesday 15 November 16 14:26 GMT (UK)  »
This maybe a continual topic, a quick glance only shows links or subject matters about specific DNA results. So onward with my question...

Per my subject matter, what are the advantages of having my DNA tested, would it be as with normal genealogy you are reliant on people researching a different branch of the same tree to find the links to get any benefit in terms of finding connections.

Do the results refer to a particular period in history, my paternal line through std genealogy goes back to Carlow around 1800 and suggests a Viking O'Rourke connection travelling up thru Wexford as opposed to the Leitrim/Offaly O'Rourke's.

For a more pressing genealogy issue we've managed to go back to the 1850s only for my maternal Adamson's, would a test discover the origin of this line as we don't know anything about them prior to an 1854 marriage and it's not an Irish name but presumably an Anglicisation of MacAdam so Scottish/English connection.

Does it success also depend on which DNA test you use, i.e. if more people have used Ancestry's test would that be the one to select.

Thanks in advance for any response to my concerns/questions and possible justification of spending more money on the past instead of the future.

Regards
Darren

2
Dublin / John Joseph Dwen
« on: Friday 28 October 16 12:58 BST (UK)  »
John Joseph Dwen was a postman and received an Imperial Service medal in 1925, I can locate him in the 1901 census but not in the 1911 census, are there still streets missing from the National Archives website.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rotunda/Temple_Street/1331931/

Apologies in advance if there is a resource thread listing this already

Regards
Darren

3
Dublin / Railway employees
« on: Monday 05 September 16 08:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Are there any records existing that covers employment on the railways, even down to basics like name and where they worked?

Regards
Darren

4
Carlow / Donohoe
« on: Saturday 11 June 16 00:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Researching a family tree for a friend, just wondering if anyone has come across this marriage while researching their trees.

Marriage is between Julia Dunne and John Donohoe - 30 June 1864, Carlow town.

Regards
Darren

5
Dublin / Robert Walker marriage
« on: Saturday 11 June 16 00:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I'm looking to get a marriage for Robert Walker, he's recently married per 1911 census (house 4.2 Arran Quay). Can't find anything in terms of civil registration.

So I'm wondering which would be an appropriate church to contact. Really looking to determine date,witnesses and primarily bride's father's name so I can work back on the right Westmeath connection on the 1901 census

Any help gratefully appreciated.
Darren

6
Carlow / General Carlow research questions
« on: Friday 13 April 12 22:56 BST (UK)  »
I've really gone as far as I can with online searching for my O'Rourke ancestry. I've established a connection back to Anastasia Best who married Michael Rourke and she is listed in Griffiths. In more recent times (i.e. 1900 +/-15) I can see my Rourke's between Clogrennan, Cloydagh, Raheendoran, Tomard, Ballygowan and Staplestown based on census and civil records.

My question is in the absence of church records on line, can you advise which churches in Carlow would cover these areas and does anyone have experience of approaching the church(es) to confirm if they don't mind giving access to the records, would they entertain general searches if you don't have exact dates.

Also which graveyards would likely be the burial sites for these areas.

Regards
Darren

7
Dublin / marriage cert address help
« on: Monday 23 January 12 20:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Can you identify the bottom address in the attached, the marriage took place in Dublin in 1911, only the address is captured but none of the participants are alive anyway.

Thanks in advance
Darren

8
Armed Forces / uniform recognition help
« on: Sunday 11 December 11 14:54 GMT (UK)  »
Please take a look and see if you can recognise the uniform in the attached

Thanks in advance
Darren

9
Australia / Tracing the children of Thomas BRADFORD and Mary De LACY
« on: Saturday 03 September 11 19:24 BST (UK)  »
Thomas and Mary got married in December 1921 in Queensland, I have them on the 1925 electoral roll in Cairns. But I'm trying to find out if they had any children. Is there an index for births in the 1920s I can check.

Thanks in advance
Darren

Pages: [1] 2 3 4