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Offline angelan

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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 05 February 09 15:46 GMT (UK) »
Pursebearer

Many thanks for the tips for Mc names. This seems to work as it has located a few more variations of the surname I was looking for. I had already tried a few variations of spelling, but hadn't though to put a space in.

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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #10 on: Friday 06 February 09 10:36 GMT (UK) »
This thread mentions several mistakes with placenames in 1911 census:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,353649.0/topicseen.html
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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 10 March 09 18:47 GMT (UK) »
Hope I am posting on right thread. Any tips on searching Catholic Marriages in Northern Ireland after 1920. Or is there an equivalent to BMD like there is on Ancestry.


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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 19 March 09 00:15 GMT (UK) »
If you are searching for a Mc surname, you have to search under McXXX, Mc XXX (ie. with a space) and M'XXX (with an aprostrophe) to get matches for various dates. Still there is a gap in the 1930s so there may be yet another format there.

I have found that omitting the Mc returns all (?) variations - works on McNamara pretty well.

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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #13 on: Friday 06 November 09 10:02 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Had a look at this pilot site and sent the link to so many people! - very interesting. Are the index numbers for look up of the actual documents at the General Reg Office in Belfast and Dublin??

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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #14 on: Friday 06 November 09 10:11 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Had a look at this pilot site and sent the link to so many people! - very interesting. Are the index numbers for look up of the actual documents at the General Reg Office in Belfast and Dublin??

Kathy

yes.

the details on the pilot site are basically a transcription of the Index books, which are available in the GRO research rooms. These are split by year/quarter and contain the same details - name, registration district, volume & page. To order a cert from these you give these details to the staff there, and they locate the details in the registration volumes - photocopy the details and you get your cert. If you order using the index details from the familysearch pilot site, the GRO use the same process to find the register details.


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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 17 December 09 10:40 GMT (UK) »
Has anyone noticed a gap in the data?
Is it meant to be incomplete?

I found one marriage using the full name.
Then I decided to look at all marriage for that year in that place and there were none.

It was a wide scope.
It seems to lack marriages in Wexford for the years 1866 to 1868
Yet I found one using a full name.

(I came across a short fall for sligo as well but I can't remember what year it was now)

Anyone know how complete it is ?
Rafter, Smith, Hession, O'Gara, Leech, Durkin, McManus, Eustace, O'Brien, Hyland, White, Hoey, Maher, Martin, McConaghy, Flynn, Davy.
Ballybough, Ballina, Ballyinaglea, Sligo , Casleconner, Killucan, Royal Canal. Ballymoney(wex).

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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 17 December 09 10:43 GMT (UK) »
It is supposed to be complete but I've noticed that if you put in only a surname and then go to refine your search results by type that marriages may not be listed. Perhaps this is connected to the problem you had?
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Re: Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 17 December 09 11:02 GMT (UK) »
I've use the site before to find out who married who. But with those 3 years it just won't play the game.

Yet if you put in a very common wexford surname for those years there's no problem.  The data is there but it won't pull it in on those 3 years without a name.
Rafter, Smith, Hession, O'Gara, Leech, Durkin, McManus, Eustace, O'Brien, Hyland, White, Hoey, Maher, Martin, McConaghy, Flynn, Davy.
Ballybough, Ballina, Ballyinaglea, Sligo , Casleconner, Killucan, Royal Canal. Ballymoney(wex).