Hi Tom. Thanks very much for sharing your experience. This sounds like excellent advice for anyone working back to Ireland from Ontario records. Best wishes, Frances >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:58:02 -0500 >From: Tom LaPorte <tlaporte@mts.net> >To: CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Re: [Ontario Irish] Finding birth place from ON death >registration > >I would say even having Armagh as a starting place is pretty >fortunate. In my experience tracing my own surnames, county and >township death registrations, census forms, church b/m/d records >seldom go beyond simply stating Ireland. I think your chances would >be pretty slim but that's what we do, chase after that slim >possibility until it's found. One place I have found where birth >place is often more specific is in any legal document where they had >to make a specific claim about themselves. Land transactions or >court declarations have been particularly fruitful and are most >likely to be correct. >> >> From: Frances Bishop <bishad@direct.ca> >> Date: 2005/09/20 Tue AM 09:47:34 CDT >> To: CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [Ontario Irish] Finding birth place from ON death registration >> >> Thanks Pat. I'm still hoping to learn more about the kinds of birth >> and possibly immigration information one can obtain from Ontario >> death registration records for 1877. >> >> Best wishes, >> Frances >> >> my original letter-------------------- >> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:27:06 -0700 >> From: Frances Bishop <bishad@direct.ca> >> To: CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Finding birth place from ON death registration >> >> Has anyone had any luck finding an actual place of origin/birth place >> in County Armagh by viewing 1877 death registrations for Simcoe >> County or any other part of Ontario? >> >> Death registration seems the most sensible place to start. Family >> lore simply states "County Armagh". This covers lots of places. Any >> suggestions welcome. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >Tom LaPorte > >--------------------------------