Re: Meehan roots
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In reply to:
Meehan roots
Mary Cooksey 3/29/08
The Tynans seem to be concentrated in the Kilkenny area. A search for Ellen Tynan b 1830 +/- 4 yrs gives 4 hits. The same search for James Meehan gives 15 hits, but only one in Kilkenny. For working purposes, assume they were married in Ireland a year or two before the birth of their first child (hopefully you have this data).
The IFHF is digitizing all BMD rcds for Ireland. It is 1/3 to 1/2 complete. It has 9,000,000 rcds now. More will be added soon. You may want to wait until the database is more complete.
The database is at http://brsgenealogy.com/http://brsgenealogy.com/. Go there, register, and see what rcds are, and aren't, there. When you search, you want to find the case(s) where A James Meehan, and AN Ellen Tynan have marriage rcds for the SAME county, AND the SAME parish, AND the SAME year. This MAY produce one or more matches.