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there are three counties that have shown up in my research, roscommon, mayoand sligo

JIm,

What date range?

Anne

hello anne, thank you for getting in touch unfortunately i find the website hard to use but i will persevere

i will keep trying though and get my family tree together. ihave joined ancestory uk. and canada, also  myheritage sites .to be honest i can,t remember what i posted now and you asked what date range

i am seeking would you please get in touch again.

                                       kind regards.

                                                            jim.

Hello Jim,

Most of the church records are between two websites.  www.irishgenealogy.ie  (free site)  and www.rootsireland.ie (most records here at pay per view site.)  Look also at www.askaboutireland.ie

You need to have information gathered before you start your search.  It s great if you  have and idea of dates and parents names etc.

I don't know what country you are in but there were marvellous records kept of passengers' arrival at most port of call. 

Most people who emigrated were illiterate and undocumented.  They didn't know how to spell their names and hadn't a clue as to what age they were.  At the port of arrival their names were recorded phonetically, their ages were only guessed, and this is the information that followed them for the rest of their lives.

The proof of this occured in 1909 when the old age pension was introduced into ireland.  People had to prove their ages and were forced to go through baptismal records to establish when they were born.  That is why there is such HUGE discrepancies between ages in the 1901 census and the 1911 census of Ireland.  Dates were found to be out by as much as twenty years in some cases.

Hope this is of some help to you,

~Regards, Anne Dennehy