Re: O'Leary family County Cork, Ireland
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O'Leary family County Cork, Ireland
Karen Rose 3/02/09
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 the surname O'Leary in the part of Cork which is in the database, I found 4,189 B rcds dating from 1792 and 1,737 M rcds dating from 1757.
For the surname Riordan in the same region, the figures are 5,951 and 2,390 respectively.
Looks like you need some forenames, relatively precise DOB, and/or placenames to continue your research.
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.