Hi Barb, I too found who I think is my Gr Grandfather Joseph Doherty on the IGI part of family search. He is registered only as "male" Doherty but birth year is right on , area is right on, fathers name Thomas right on, but because I still can`t prove his mother was Anne Joyce, (the mother listed on his birth record) none of it will qualify as proof, right? For that reason, I haven`t sent away for a copy of that birth record. His two siblings were given first names when registered. I know that if a child wasn`t expected to live for long, at time of birth, they sometimes weren`t named. So thats my two bits worth. Heather Horgan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Glassel" <bglassel@gmail.com> To: <irl-cork@rootsweb.com>; <mahoney@rootsweb.com>; <mahony@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:17 PM Subject: [Irl-Cork] Birth Registrations with No First Name > Greetings, > > My family and I have hunted for years for my grandmother's 1879 or 1880 > Irish birth registration, or her baptism. > > We now think the new Family Search Beta site must be including more > registrations than before, at this URL: > <https://beta.familysearch.org/> > This week I put in my grandmother's surname, Mahoney, with no first name; > and both her parents' names, Cornelius Mahony & Margaret Regan, plus > County > Cork, but no date. > > As I expected, her previously known siblings' civil births & baptisms > turned > up, in Glengarriff civil and Inchigeelagh RC locations. Then suddenly, up > popped a new one, with no given first name at all: > "*...* Mahoney, Female," with my grandmother's exact birth date, 19 Dec > 1879, at a location unfamiliar to our family, Inniscarra. This family > moved > around a bit, so it still makes sense, really. Our Margaret Mahoney had > emigrated to northern Illinois with her mother & siblings at about age 4 > or > 5. All she remembered of Ireland was being able to walk from their home to > the ship. Inniscarra, a few miles west of Cork City, seems walkable to > Cobh. > > Would we have found her sooner, if we had looked for unnamed babies > instead > of just Margarets? Who knew that a child's birth could even be registered > with *no stated first name*? > > After I obtain a copy of my "Female but unnamed" Mahoney's civil birth > registration [which might list a townland?], I will search for her baptism > at the most likely RC parish. > > Appreciate any comments or advice, > Barb Glassel > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >