Birth Charles Allen

[Tees]

Hi Margaret,

It seems that the LDS "expects" your friend to identify which street or address her Charles Allen lived at then get a correct microfilm to view the actual censuses from that area.

That is why they have an index as there are many, many microfilms--they just need to know which ones to get for your friend.

They are supposed to explain all of this to her. If she was in Ireland, there would be no indexes but helpful staff which will look up in their special database to identify correct microfilm to look at (this is at the National Archives in Dublin). It is very difficult for someone to proceed without knowing where one had lived in 1911.

You generally are expected to know which townland they live in or which street if it is in city.

Surprised that the LDS staff did not explain this to your friend in the beginning.

Kind regards,

Tees

[aghadowey]

Tees is correct. I said on 20 March that the 'index' probably wouldn't help.

[maggie65]

Too bad they didnt explain it to her. She has no idea what street they lived in. Baffled what to do next??

Margaret

[Tees]

Hi Margaret,

Well...I think we should ask Zander to share further information with you--to see if we can verify the information through other sources since we honestly do not know where Charles Allen was in 1911.

It will be some time before we will be seeing 1901 & 1911 Irish censuses online--a long wait. They are in the process of bringing them online. The only trouble is they could not fix the date when they will get it online and they are starting with Dublin first then adding other counties as the work progresses.

Let's see what Aghadowey has to say on this subject. Do not lose faith!! We are going to find another way to help you.

Kind regards,

Tees

[maggie65]

Thanks Tees. Think I should ask my friend to order in the films for  births in Ireland from before 1906 and after or is that an index too??. I had sent a message to Zander to ask her what she had and she was going to check and see what she had. The mother of the charles that she has was her gg aunt.


Margaret

[aghadowey]

Margaret- if your friend orders the microfilms for birth each district will be divided into quarters so she'll have to order 4 for each year. Even to do that you need to know which district birth would be in.

[maggie65]

Thanks for that information. I guess thats not a good idea.

Margaret

[zander]

hi sorry about the delay getting back
found out about the charles allen on my side but the bad new's is it is not the same one as mine was never married.he also lived with 3 sisters and his mother.

[maggie65]

Thanks Zander. Thats that theory shot now.

Margaret