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Who else can't wait for the 1940 census to come out (4-2-2012)?? I'm so excited about it!! It was a time when a lot of things changed in the lives of my relations, so it may answer a lot of questions for me!
Is there anyone else putting together the list of things they're going to search once it comes out? What are you hoping to find??
And if someone could wave a magic wand and bring back the 1890 census. That's the one that has really my play-house.
Amen.
But every time I grind my teeth about that, I remember that there are NO 19th century censuses of Ireland left due to battle for the Four Courts between the opposing sides in the Irish Civil War in the 1920's in which these records were all needlessly and thoughtlessly destroyed....taking with them a major source of the country's history.
kevxu, totally agree! Not only the census, but birth, marriage, death records too! :-/ I'm in that boat with my ancestors from Galway. But that's when you have to start looking for local knowledge. I'm hoping to head to the town in question to talk to the Parish Priest and locals next time I'm over to see if I can glean any more info that way...
I have to agree with the others - I have all the info the 1940 census would give me of my ancestors at the time anyway. I'd rather see sites like Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org add more BMD records than census records.
And if someone could wave a magic wand and bring back the 1890 census. That's the one that has really my play-house.
Yes, the attempt to reconstruct is a worthy cause, but clearly nowhere near as complete as an actual census. Many of the sources in the 1890 Substitute are based on city directories. Thus, many rural areas are completely unrepresented at a time when a much larger percentage of the population was rural than it is now.
I have to agree with the others - I have all the info the 1940 census would give me of my ancestors at the time anyway. I'd rather see sites like Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org add more BMD records than census records.
Agree.
Many sites seem to focus on census, possibly because it's already compiled. BMD needs to be collected and entered into a database. But that could definitely fill in some gaps for a lot of people.
kevxu, totally agree! Not only the census, but birth, marriage, death records too! :-/ I'm in that boat with my ancestors from Galway. But that's when you have to start looking for local knowledge. I'm hoping to head to the town in question to talk to the Parish Priest and locals next time I'm over to see if I can glean any more info that way...
Check the National Archives in Dublin first, they have many 19th century records. I found half of my grt-grtgrandfather's children's baptisms there....it was helpful as it also gave their sponsors, and this has supplied leads on other family members.National Archives of Ireland (http://www.nationalarchives.ie/index.html - broken link)
This is their home page, from there go to the genealogy section and browse over what their resources are. One problem is that some churches became derelict during the Famine, and their records may not necessarily reside in a new church in the same village.
National Archives of Ireland (http://www.nationalarchives.ie/index.html - broken link)
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