My 2nd Great Grandfather, Bernard O'Neill (1816-1871) and my 2nd Great Grandmother,Elizabeth McLaughlin (1833 - 1909) were born in Ireland.
Bernard & Elizabeth settled in Randolph, New York, USA.
Their son, Charles O'Neill (1832 - 1934), married Ida Neilsen from Denmark. They were married in South Dakota, USA.
I'm trying to locate the Parish or County they were from in Ireland.
Saturday 9th Feb 2013, 06:32PM
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Hi,
Thank you for your message.
It will be hard to find the parish that Bernard and Elizabeth came from without more information.
Do you have any documentation belonging to the family-official or unofficial- that mentions any place name at all, even a county? Documentation such as census records, marriage records, wills, letters, diaries, family bibles may have something recorded. Sometimes a townland or parish may even be inscribed upon a tombstone.
Do you know any of their parents? names? If you do you could try looking for their birth record online. You may even be able to find their marriage record or a birth record for one of their children born in Ireland. Any of these would give you a parish name.
www.familysearch.org has a large collection of church records available.
www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html Records are currently being uploaded here frr of charge. However this is an ongoing project so not all records are available yet.
www.rootsireland.ie a large collection of records are available here however you have tyo pay to use this site.
Some other websites that may be helpful in your search are:
The National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/
The National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx
The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm
Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/
Genealogy Tool-kit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/index.html
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Kind regards,
Genealogy Support
Tuesday 16th Apr 2013, 03:19PM