John... that is why the Registry Offices are where they are!! Their catchment area was worked on same principal and can often taken in 2 or 3 counties, or parts thereof. Often people become 'obsessed' by a County rather than stripping away the county lines and using the 12 mile radius as a guideline! People often look for their kin on LDS via a townland BUT they need to search using the REGISTRY OFFICE their kin would have used. DH Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Distances ancestors travelled. --> Map Tools forRadius and Distance Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:30:40 -0400 References: <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> My pleasure Carole. I've always been fascinated by maps. As you saw, the basic premise of the article is that given that people could walk 3-4 miles per hour, they could likely travel up to 12 miles to any location, conduct their business, and return home, tired, but in the same day. By horse, the time is cut, or the range could be extended. The article then goes on to show various 12 mile radi (plural of radius, and yes I had to look that up!) around various market towns. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Thank Dave, I agree that we must look farther afield, but we still come down to two basic questions: 1) Where are the records? 2) Is the person in the record I found the 'right' one? In both of these cases, it's important to know the boundaries for the applicable records. I would assume that's why James Mullan was wondering about the shifting parish boundaries around Roslea. I've seen parish records include the Latin equivalent 'of this parish' next to someone's name. If the parish boundaries have changed over time, knowing which townland is 'in this parish' at the time the record was created is important. John in NC On 2016/04/04 18:10 , Dave H. via wrote: > John... that is why the Registry Offices are where they are!! > > Their catchment area was worked on same principal and can often taken in > 2 or 3 counties, or parts thereof. > > Often people become 'obsessed' by a County rather than stripping away > the county lines and using the 12 mile radius as a guideline! > > People often look for their kin on LDS via a townland BUT they need to > search using the REGISTRY OFFICE their kin would have used. > > > > DH > > > > > > Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Distances ancestors travelled. --> Map Tools > forRadius and Distance > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:30:40 -0400 > References: <[email protected]> > In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > My pleasure Carole. I've always been fascinated by maps. > > As you saw, the basic premise of the article is that given that people > could walk 3-4 miles per hour, they could likely travel up to 12 miles > to any location, conduct their business, and return home, tired, but in > the same day. By horse, the time is cut, or the range could be > extended. The article then goes on to show various 12 mile radi (plural > of radius, and yes I had to look that up!) around various market towns. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > ========================= > https://www.facebook.com/groups/FermanaghGold/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >