Excellent list of useful sites - print and keep handy - J. Terry Ryan, President Ryan Clan Association, U.S. Sept, Inc. Web: http://www.ryans.org "Working to promote genealogy of the Ryan name and meeting more Ryans, especially, those in Ireland!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lou & MJ" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 18 February 2001 02:06 Subject: Some useful sites > Some possibly helpful sites for Co. Tipperary researchers (extracted off the > list.) Note all were last checked on 18-02-01 6:03:26 AM Atlantic Standard > Time (UCT -4:00) : > > this link should get you to the information on both the R.C. and C of I > parishes: http://tipperary.local.ie/genealogy/ > > This link should take you to a rather colourful rendering of the R.C. > Parishes and shows the Deanery they are in. This site also has other useful > information on the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly: > http://homepage.eircom.net/~cashelemly/mapdean.htm > > two sites that show the R.C. parishes are: > for the north of Co. Tipp > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip/images/tipn_par.gif > for the south of Co. Tipp > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip/images/tips_par.gif > and yet another Parish map at: > http://tipperary.local.ie/content/28543.shtml > > Perhaps this link will explain the difference between the Roman Catholic > Church and the Church of Ireland. > http://www.ireland.anglican.org/home.html > > Another potentially useful site is > http://www.nationalarchives.ie/govpapers.html > > Tony's efforts on a database are at: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishchurchrecords/index.html > Search Rootsweb's new Irish Church Records; Tipperary and Limerick > > > For a site with some Aussie connections try: > http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/page3.html > > On the "Black Irish" issue try: > http://www.darkfiber.com/blackirish/ > and related: > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cultures/irish-faq/part08/section-10.html > > For passenger lists try: > http://www.genealogylinks.net/ > and: > http://istg.rootsweb.com/ > > To locate a townland in Ireland, check out The IreAtlas site at: > > http://www.seanruad.com/ > Guidelines on the site do not say you can enter part-words but you can. > Unlike the Irish Ancestor site you can not enter more than one group of > letters but there is no limit in the size of display. So you can enter > "Lough" and County "Tipperary" and get a list of 48 townlands with "lough" > in them. Widen the search by Province to "Munster" and the list increases to > 188. For the whole country the list becomes 780. > Looking for Loughnastay you might think "Loughinaska" in County Waterford > was worth a look. > If your interests are concentrated in particular parishes the IreAtlas site > allows you to display (and Print) ALL the townlands in any parish. In fact > if you had the inclination you can print out all the townland names in a > County! A list of 60,462 covers the whole country! > > Or: > > http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/placenames/index.cfm > allows you to enter up to three sets of letters in a search. So, for example > you can enter "kil" and "shee" and get: Killashee (2), Killnashee, and > Kilsheelan. If you get too many responses (which it will not display) you > can limit your search further by County. The skill comes in guessing which > letters in a given word may be misspelled! > > > Or this one: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irish/ > > And for a 'Northern Flavour" try: > http://proni.nics.gov.uk/geogindx/townindx.htm > > > For some this Irish History site may be helpful: > http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html > > > If you know the date and place of birth, you can get a birth certificate at > the Irish Government office called: > The General Register Office > Joyce House > 8-11 Lombard St. E. > Dublin 2 > Tel. (01) 671 1000. > Open 9:30 am 12:30 pm., 2:15 pm - 4:30 pm. > You need to check their website which indicates prices can be found at the > following address: > > http://www.groireland.ie/fees.htm > > Cemetery Information Sites: > > You might want to try this address for headstone transcriptions in the > general Ballylooby/Clogheen area > > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Forest/7956/ > > The Portlaw N.S., Co. Waterford, website is delightful. > Besides history of the area, there are graveyard transcriptions, etc. > The graveyard transcriptions can be found at: > http://homepage.tinet.ie/~portlawns/Pages/Graveyard.htm > Check out the "Site Contents" for a full listing of the subject matters. > Discovery Series Maps: > > Two USA sites that carry the Discovery series (1:50000, about 1 and a > quarter inches to a mile) are: > > http://www.globecorner.com/s/209.html > or > www.omnimap.com > The Omnimap.com site has an index map of the Discovery series so you can > select before you buy > > http://www.omnimap.com/cgi-bin/omni/graphic.pl?images/ind-for/ire-50.jpg > > If your browser doesn't like that long URL try the main site and search out > the directions to "Ireland and Northern Ireland 1:50,000 Index" > > Valuation Office Ireland > Irish Life Centre > Abbey Street Lower, > Dublin 1 > > Tel: +353-1-817 1000 > Fax: +353-1-817 1180 > Local: 1-890-304-444 > > website: > > http://www.valoff.ie/index.htm > > The Convict Transport Records at > http://www.nationalarchives.ie/search01.html > > > > from Maureen's Family Trees. The address is > http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/mmurphy/resource.htm > She lists the Civil Registration of Births Ireland Mostly Tipperary for the > 1860's. Lots of names. > > > a site that lists all the surnames of the English that received lands > through Cromwell in the period 1642 - 1646. It is located at > www.exis.net/ahd/monaghan/advntrs.htm > > Convict data > http://www.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/convicts.htm > > > For information on the Griffith's Valuation, please go to > http://www.cmcrp.net/Tipperary/index.html > > For a variety of genealogy sources, check out the Ryan Clan Assoc. website > at: > http://www.ryans.org > > Want to help needy children in Ireland?? Check out web page: > http://www.ryans.org/childrenofireland/Index.htm > > REGISTRATION DISTRICTS OF IRELAND" > you can start at Tony's genealogy page and use the link, > http://www.geocities.com/triordan.geo/gene1.html > > This is a great > Thurles site. > http://homepage.tinet.ie/~jjcondon > > Commonwealth War Graves Commission at http://www.cwgc.org/ > > > Rootsweb United Kingdom and Ireland Records > http://userdb.rootsweb.com/uki/ > > Lists for counties of Ireland > Check them out at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlwgw/counties.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CoTipperary Mailing List ==== > HELPFUL HINT: For passenger lists try: > http://www.genealogylinks.net/ > and: http://istg.rootsweb.com/ > > >