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Re: Ferrand/Farran/Ferns and Gill
Posted by: Ralph Connors (ID *****9163) Date: September 12, 2009 at 18:45:30
In Reply to: Ferrand/Farran/Ferns and Gill by Karen McCarron of 1356

Hi Karen:

I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,800,000 surviving rcds for abt 70% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800. Cos. Donegal and Derry were recently added to the database.

Note 1 - Without a KNOWN county, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 30%.

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 Unity Gill(McGill) M ????, Co. Donegal the closest rcd to this date is in 1782. Note 18th century rcds are very rare; less than 5% of the events were ever rcd'd or rcds survived.

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.


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