Re: William Egan
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In reply to:
William Egan
ellen Brasier 10/18/07
You are missing a bunch of DOB, and DOM. Would help if you were more precise.
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,000,000 surviving rcds for abt 65% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN parish, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 35%.
Note 2 - Only 1/2 of Co. Cork's rcds are in this database.
Note 3 - The RC church kept control over most parish rcds from Tipperary (north). These are ONLY available thru the Tipperary Family History Research center at a substantial fee (regardless of outcome).
For William Egan B ???? in Youghal, Co. Cork, with father's forename William, I found 0 rcds. If this William emigrated to the U.S. in the 1830s, this implies he was born ca 1810. Rcds for this era are extremely poor. The chances they survived are less than 10%.
Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and browse. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.
Hope this helps. Good luck.