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Donegal
County, Ireland
Donegal
Genealogy
- Donegal (History & people etc)
Google
Groups: Carlow,
Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly Ireland Genealogy
A new group that I set up recently. It's only got one
member - me, but then again, once upon a time Y-IRL
the Yahoo group which I created back in 2001 had only
a few members and today, it's one of the largest Irish
Genealogy groups on the internet
Yahoo
Group : Ireland
Genealogy (Y-IRL) A group set up by me in 2001 and
currently with over 1700 members
Genealogy
Donegal
I
don't like 'pure' genealogy per se, that is, the putting
of names on a family tree, instead I like to know
about the people, how they lived and the places they
lived in. There are lots of people who are not like
me, who do like to know just the names and where they
came from. The pages linked to below are pretty much
to do with pure genealogy (but a little bit of the
other thrown in!).
To
my mind, the Lewis Topographical Dictionary is one
of the most valuable and ignored tools for genealogists
or family historians because it gives us alternative
names and spellings of parish names, also, most
importantly it names the religious parishes which
cover any civil parish. I find that people generally
do not understand the Civil Registration Districts
and the fact that a district can cover townlands
in different counties. If anyone (myself included
before I got to know all this) thinks of Londonderry,
they immediately think of County Londondery or Derry,
or Strabane, they think of County Tyrone- they'd
never think of it having anything to do with County
Donegal and genealogical research in County Donegal.
There
is more to do with Donegal Genealogy on the History
& people tables
Irish
Genealogy Research Service
(fee based)
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County
Donegal, history, geography, genealogy, people
Every
time I have seen someone ask if anyone knows anything
about education or emigration on any of the mail lists
I have been subscribed to I always think of the 1931
descriptions of the counties in Ireland which I have
on line. At the end of every county description there
are tables listing the figures for emigration from
the county, education in the county, whether or not
the people speak Irish, and a breakdown of the religious
denominations in the county taken from various census
returns from 1821 through 1926. So, these descriptions
are of historical and genealogical importance.
The
Diocescan listings were one of the first sets of
pages I created for this web site, because sometime
way back then I had read that when a man qualified
as a priest he was usually put back into his own
parish, originally I had considered these tables
of importance because they told us the names of
the Roman Catholic parishes in a Diocese in 1836
(which sometimes changed over the years) and they
also told us the name of the closest post town -
this never changed. So, to me, these lists help
if I am looking for a Roman Catholic parish which
no longer exists. I find the name of the closest
post town to where-ever it is I am loking for information
about and then I find the records which co exist
for that area, regardless of the name.
Lists
such as the 1832 Military list, the Revenue Officers,
the Admiralty Examinations, the General Synod, the
Presbyterian Synod - these can apply to any county
- they are of genealogical & historical value.
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