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Hi Dennis

During my own search for family in Tuam, Galway and fruitless I might add! I did collect two baptisms for Higgins that you might like to keep in case they miraculously might later fit in. They are from the R.C. Register.

The baptisms only went up to 1804 and I did not collect any other information that would be relevant to your search as I am only looking for c1790. I did check the marriages to about 1815, nothing there I am afraid, and I was not specifically looking for Higgins.

25 Oct 1803 Michael son of Bernard Higgins and Mary McCormick,
Sponsors: James Mc Cormick and Catherine McCormick

18 Nov 1803 Patt. son of Michael Higgins and Cate Toole
Sponsors: Patt.Toole and Cath. Mann

Miracles do occasionally happen!
Best of luck,
Pat

Could anyone please advise me if they have heard of Ross Keen? This is from the 1851 Census.

I have tried the Irish Time placename search etc.

Any advice, or perhaps a phonetic translation of this name, may help me.

Thank you,
Pat

I went to the LDS Centre today and asked for some clarification of what I was told earlier.

Second time around it had changed to pretty much the same as described above but that it will include all filmed records. A huge job and will take many years to complete because of the millions of records involved.

I was told that it will be searched by Country, By County, by Parish etc, and the viewing will be direct from the films, frame by frame, pretty much like a census can be viewed. Work has already begun. He was unsure if names would be indexed first so that you can search only the pages that contain your ancestors names.

That is all for now, but I am sure even when only partially completed any help to Irish researchers will be a great improvement to what we have now.

With that I will end my news, and hope it will not be too long before we have something more definitive from the LDS that will give us some hope?

Regards,
Pat

Dear Mac

His full name was Thomas William Ingham, born Hulme and spent almost all his life in the Manchester region. He was a very good driver, and motor cyclist, but worked most of his life in clerical type positions, but did also drive.
He had plates in both wrists, and I can recall seeing these. I had his name checked in a book index written about the young men in the RFC without result.

Thank you Mac,
Pat

Dear Wendi
I did not download the images because his first names did not match. There were no Thomas William's, and the only ones I could find were two Thomas's in the Manchester Regiment and one Tom on the Accrington Absent voters list, but I do not think this one is him, even though he was the only one in the RAF.
Thank you both very much for replying,
Pat

Dear Anne

Having fallen foul of the copyright conditions on this forum, it is not something I would like to do again however innocently.

The medal cards are really another trap I think. But I take the view that you have paid out good money for these on the slimmest of evidence provided in the initial look ups by the National Archives, unless your soldier has an unusual name and you know his regimental number it is a guessing game to pick the right one, and frequently leaves you with expensive information that could be useful to someone else.

I do not know the answer, perhaps you could seek advice on this one before you post the names?
Not sure about baptisms/marriages,burial records either as often these are obtained at great expense via a researcher. Does a Church own the copyright or the diocese of the parish? And, what of those lucky people that live close to archived documents, like parish registers, they must amass massive amounts of information during there own searches, that is of no use to them, but very useful to other people when broken down into individual names.

So sorry I cannot help you really but it is good to hear from you.

Kind regards,
 Pat