Irish records

[Daryl]

Can anybody tell me how the vital records are recorded and what cival
registration means.
Im searching Ireland for my great grandparents and was wondering just how
many churches allowed the latter day saints access.
I have found a McGill in Gurteen Sligo but I was more expecting my great
grandmothers name O'Gara to be there, it is but only a few Im sure I could
connect these people, as the William Thomas McGill born Gurteen Sligo 1869
and parents sound like mine, but with a name like Mary Ellen O'Gara I was
hoping to find her around as she was from Ireland too. her dates are 1871-2
fathers name was Thomas on her marriage cert a collier, im told all the
O'Gara's are from Sligo Rosscommon and Mayo, is this correct, could anybody
help out.
Regards Julie

[GFS Linda]

<< Can anybody tell me how the vital records are recorded and what cival
registration means. >>

Civil registration is the recording of birth, marriage, and some..
deaths/burials (not too prevalent, I'm told). It began in Ireland in Jan of
1864 and like most records, in early days not all were registered. Children
born at Christmas were recorded after the first of the year.

<< Im searching Ireland for my great grandparents and was wondering just how
many churches allowed the latter day saints access. >>

Most churches allowed their records to be filmed with the exception of the
Catholic church. I understand even some of the Catholic records were filmed.

MacLysaght in his Surnames of Ireland says of O Gara or O Gadhra (gadhar, dog)
Akin to the O'Haras in Leyney. Lords of Coolavin up to 1650. The prefix O,
formerly widely dropped, is now usual. There's more in his Irish Families. He
also shows on his map that the family is from both Mayo and Sligo.

The birth records (civil registration) ought to show you the townland where
both were from.

Linda

GFS Linda, Co-leader Scot and Irish SIG, AOL Genealogy Forum.
Keyword: Roots
"If all the world were genealogists, there would be no wars! No one would take
a chance on the records being burned!" :D

[TonyaHarris]

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free for 10 days at Ancestry.
http://shop.ancestry.com/ancestry/irishrecords.html

tonya harris

[Len Duffy]

'Irish Records' at
http://shop.ancestry.com/ancestry/irishrecords.html
is $39.95!

That's free???

Len

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[TonyaHarris]

Please accept my apology. I get the ancestry newsletter and this was
included in the databases that are free for 10 days to search through. I
didn't realize it was a book for sale. I'm sorry.
tonya harris
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[Scotty]

All this took me to is a place to buy the book, how did you get in to look
at the book for free?
SF
> http://shop.ancestry.com/ancestry/irishrecords.html
>

[Frank Gebhart]

For free???!!! Get serious!!