Leitrim-Roscommon

Did you check the handwritten 'late registrations' at the back of the index books? Was the marriage Catholic or Protestant? They are recorded in separate index books at the GRO. A search of a 2 year time span is quite narrow, I'd extend it a bit further either side of the year in question. Another p...

The GRO has indeed relocated to Roscommon, but the research room has remained in Lombard Street in Dublin. Access to the Birth, Marriage & Death indices and photocopies of entries therein, continues as always. Contact with Roscommon is only necessary when actual certificates for events outside D...

Thanks Roger, as always, to you and your team for the fantastic resource that you have provided (& thanks, as always, for providing the cause of my rapidly progressing torment, frustration and insanity - a glimpse of granny on the 1901 census started me off)!!!

CA

Hi Anne The Irish Times web site www.ireland.com has a genealogy section which includes the distribution of surnames throughout Ireland i.e. where particular surnames were most commonly found. It might be worth a look. A lot of the names you mentioned sound more English than Irish, or at least Anglo...

Well done for getting back on line - I was getting withdrawal symptoms! Fingers crossed.

CA :

Hi Carole I am not familiar with the resources available in the area you mentioned but many records can be consulted in Dublin. Where to start researching can depend upon the years you are looking for. State registration (for Catholics) began in 1864. Birth, Marriage and Death records can be consult...

Thanks (as always) for your hard work on this site Ed & Shaun. The changes will take a bit of getting used to. Is there a problem with your e-mail link? I tried sending a query to you but received an error message. I'm wondering how much of the archive you have transferred over - I've had no luc...

May I take this opportunity to thank you Roger, and your staff, for the fantastic resource that you have created (even if I do blame it for starting my blasted addiction to family history).

CA