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Hi Artie

Here are a few suggestions for tracing your LONGFORD  Bartons / Bardens

There are 12 birth/baptism records on www.rootsireland.ie for Barton & surname variants

http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie/quis.php?page=0&prevStartQuery=0

There are also 6 marriage records & 5 death/burial records

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If you know first names or birth, marriage or death years you can add those criteria to your searches to narrow the results

The other sites to try would be Tithe Applotments (free online) 

There are 13 Bardens and 2 Bardons but no Bartons in Longford in the Tithes

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?surname=Barden&firstname=&county=Longford&parish=&townland=&search=Search

Griffiths Valuation 1848-64 Free online  has 1 Barton, 3 Bardons & 7 Bardens in Longford

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=doNameSearch&Submit.x=31&Submit.y=10&Submit=Submit&familyname=Barden&firstname=First+Name&baronyname=&countyname=LONGFORD&unionname=&parishname=

The Irish Censuses 1901 & 1911 are free online

They have 26 Bardens in the 1911 and a few of the other names; 1901 has 17 Bardens & 6 bardons in Longford

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?searchMoreVisible=false&census_year=1901&surname=Barton&firstname=&county19011911=Longford&county1821=&county1831=&county1841=&county1851=&parish=&ward=&barony=&townland=&

There are also a few public member trees on ancestry.com (chrages) which has people of each of the 3 names born in Longford

Col