Searching for Healy Family County Cork - Josephine V.

Hi,

Thank you for roy ur message and for sharing this lovely photograph!

Perhaps you could try looking at church records in Shandrum to see if you can find your grandmothers.

Most Catholic records are held locally so you may need to write to the local parish priest for possible assistance. One website that you may find useful is the Irish Times where they give an overview of what records are available in specific parishes. For Shandrum parish, follow this link:

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Cork%20North-West&parish=Shandrum&churchid=95

As you can see from this web-link, there are copies of these records available in thr National Linrary and Mallow Heritage Centre.

Most surviving Church of Ireland records are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. Here are their websites: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ and http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42

Lists of these surviving registers can also be found at the National Library of Ireland.

www.familysearch.org have some records available online.

You may also be able to find her birth record in civil records. These are available from the General Register?s Office in Dublin. Here is their website:

http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

You can search the indexes to these records online at:

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347

Have you tried looking into Josephine?s emigration? Sometimes some good information can be found here. Information on immigration records can be found at the US National Archives at http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/

Some other websites that you may find helpful 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

Genealogy Links: http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/cork/index.html

If you would like to contact the Mallow Heritage Centre for assistance here are their contact details: (a fee may apply)

Mallow Heritage Centre,

27-28 Bank Place,

Mallow,

Co. Cork.

Phone: +353 (0) 22 50302 Email: mallowheritagecentre@gmail.com

I hope that some of these links are helpful and that you find something that helps you get past your brick wall.  Please be patient - as our programme has only begun to rollout across the island of Ireland and volunteers in some areas may not yet be organized.

Kind regards,

Genealogy Support