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A bit of spring cleaning ...

28/2/2016

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Having recently added some new finding aids in the form of my LDS Townland Indexes Timelines to each county page, I realised that they were becoming a bit cluttered and taking ages to load.  So, I've simplified things by creating 2 new pages below every county page to host my unique finding aids.

The Church of Ireland Parish Records Finder will take you to my original comparison spreadsheets, which I am in the process of updating to new versions to include more information - Check any of those for the Ulster counties and you will see what I hope to add to all the others in due course, namely missing parishes highlighted.

The aforesaid LDS Townland Indexes Timelines are also now on their own sub-pages for each county, with 8 counties also having specific indexes for their major town so be sure to scroll down further to see these for Belfast (under Co. Antrim), Drogheda (under Co. Louth), Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny, Limerick, Londonderry and Waterford.

Just a word of warning with these spreadsheet resources - please be patient as they might take a few moments to load (check out the messages on the bottom left of your screen) but hopefully they are worth the small delay.  Also, I'm afraid occasionally the server on which they are hosted misbehaves and they may not load successfully, so please try again a little later.
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Registry of Deeds Townland Indexes - LDS microfilm numbers for all counties chronologically ordered

20/2/2016

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OK, not my catchiest headline, but perhaps some of you may thank me for my latest efforts as the Spreadsheet Queen!

The LDS London Family History Centre (currently sub-letting from the National Archives at Kew) has a huge and, in my opinion, quite wonderful resource in the form virtually all the Grantor Indexes, Townland Indexes and Abstracts of Deeds from the Registry of Deeds in Dublin, 1708-1929.  I've written extensively about my experiences with these microfilms on the LDS Registry of Deeds microfilms page on this site.  However, when I was trying to create a timeline of land transactions in relation to specific townlands, I found myself going squinty-eyed trawling through the on-line catalogue to try to find the films for particular counties in chronological order.  So, I decided to create my own lists for each county that hopefully makes it much easier to move forwards or backwards in time when searching for deeds connected with particular townlands.

Every county page now has an additional spreadsheet added that presents the microfilm numbers in chronological order.  Organising them in this way also highlights the multiple filmings that were made especially of the later films, so if your first choice film is not available you can choose another.
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Keep Calm ... and just relink EVERYTHING!!

2/2/2016

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Just give me a minute while I calm down, stop hyperventilating, banging my head against the wall and keening like a professional mourner (drama queen?  Moi?!)  I've just read a story on Irish Genealogy News about the demise of John Grenham's Irish Roots column in the Irish Times, which he bemoans himself on his own website (where he will thankfully carry on delivering his words of wisdom on all things genealogically Irish.)  

The really bad news however, is the enlightened eejits of the Irish Times are also going to be evicting his most excellent Irish Ancestors site from their servers.  According to Claire Santry's news story, this won't happen until sometime around April though and it is hoped that all those wonderful pages of advice and invaluable data will find a new home on John's own site too.

So, why am I upset?  Irish Geneaography has hundreds of links to the Irish Ancestors website, particularly embedded within the spreadsheets for Church of Ireland parish registers on every county page.  So, when I finally find out where the data is relocated too, I'm going to have to re-link every single one of them!  If there is a significant gap between the Irish Times eviction and John Grenham getting it all back on-line again, I'm afraid you are going to get a lot of "Page not found" errors too.  I will endeavour to get everything back in shape but it will take some time ... * sigh *! 
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