Hi - I've come across a few websites where you have to purchase access to view Griffiths Valuation. Can anyone tell me if you get more data by purchasing than that shown in the excellent free site mentioned below? i.e. http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php Thank you for your help, there are some wonderfully informed people on this feed. Theresa -----Original Message----- From: genire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:genire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of curraveha Sent: 08 March 2010 02:44 To: genire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: can you help ? I'll Try!! Check his marriage and death record, sometimes the place of birth is listed. Check the ships register listings to find the vessel and date of immigration. In some cases the last place of residence is noted. The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm website has listing of family names by county in the 1840's and the number of families of that surname in each county. If your ancestor does not have common name this can eliminate some counties. If his parents were alive when he left, one may be listed in Griffiths Valuation. How does this help? Between the 1600's and 1900's a naming tradition developed in England and Ireland where the first male child was named after the paternal grandfather, the first female after the maternal grandmother, the second children were named after the opposites, the third children after the parents. It is referred to as the Irish Naming Pattern. Many immigrants continued it on this side of the ocean. If it shows up in your family here there is a good chance your grandfather was named after his grandfather who might show up in Griffiths Valuation if he was still living when it was done (1845-1855). You can check this at http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php. Two excellent books on Irish Genealogy sources are Tracing Your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham (3rd Ed.) and Discovering Your Irish Ancestors by Dwight Radford and Kyle Betit. The latter has a good section on Canadian sources. Many Public libraries can get these if available in their networks. "emm" <samiam98@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:a371628e-9dad-45c3-ac11-4004b7790200@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > First time posting to a news group and I hope I'm doing this > correctly. If I've messed it up, my apologies. > > I seem to be at a standstill with my maternal great-grandfather. I > know only that he was born in Ireland in 1827and that he came to > Ontario in 1855. I have no idea from where in Ireland he came, nor do > I know anything of any siblings either he might have had. Any idea > where or what I'd do next to try to find more info ? Any insight you > could provide would be much appreciated. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://www.glass-ts.com/PDFs/GTS_Terms_Conditions.pdf Click below if you wish to pay either company: http://www.britglass.org.uk/payment.php http://www.glass-ts.com/payment/payment.php P please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. http://www.britglass.org.uk/BritishGlass/British_Glass_Environmental_Policy_Statement_-_Mar_08.pdf http://www.glass-ts.com/PDFs/GTS_Environmental_Policy_Statement_-_Mar_08.pdf (Click to view policies) This message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitutes a trade secret. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from us may be monitored. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions that are present in this message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.