Hi everyone I joined this list a couple of weeks ago, knowing nothing at all about tracing Irish ancestry. I received no response to my first posting, which is fair enough, as presumably no one is tracing the SMYTH/SMITH, TANCRED AND TIERNEY families in Dublin in which I am interested. But I also asked how I could go about obtaining information on a couple of births in Dublin (c1831/1833) and a marriage c1850. I have since located the genfindit site:- http://genfindit.com/ireland.htm But this only seems to relate to Civil Registration from 1864 and Protestant marriages from 1845 (I have no idea whether or not they were Protestants) So, please, is there any way I can trace the above-mentioned births and marriage in Dublin? As I have no idea how to go about obtaining this information, any help will be much appreciated. Many thanks. Wendy

Wendy, Civil Registration began on the dates you stated in your email. It was not mandatory to report births prior to these dates. For information prior to that you would need to know the church of baptism. Do you have any addresses or know where in Dublin? ie Dublin South, etc. Gail --- Wendy Lewis <wendy.linedancer@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I joined this list a couple of weeks ago, knowing > nothing at all about > tracing Irish ancestry. > > I received no response to my first posting, which is > fair enough, as > presumably no one is tracing the SMYTH/SMITH, > TANCRED AND TIERNEY families > in Dublin in which I am interested. But I also asked > how I could go about > obtaining information on a couple of births in > Dublin (c1831/1833) and a > marriage c1850. > > I have since located the genfindit site:- > > http://genfindit.com/ireland.htm > > But this only seems to relate to Civil Registration > from 1864 and > Protestant marriages from 1845 (I have no idea > whether or not they were > Protestants) > > So, please, is there any way I can trace the > above-mentioned births and > marriage in Dublin? > > As I have no idea how to go about obtaining this > information, any help will > be much appreciated. > > Many thanks. > > Wendy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

Hello Wendy I must have missed your first request I'm also trying to trace a Smith family in Dublin My Great Grandfather was George Hill Smith born in Dublin in 1833. He was the 7th of 10 children of George Smith and Elizabeth Lee. George Smith was a government employee with a residence reported to be in Dublin Castle George Hill was reported to have been born in Dublin Castle. He became a Barrister and then a Judge I have some records (scrap books) kept by George Hill Smith from about 1900 till his death in 1926. Mainly about his family, friends and work Also a small Scripture Text book which I believe was kept his`wife which gives birth dates`of his` children and other people George Hill Smith married Eliza Graham in Muff Co Donegal in 1858. He moved to Armagh around 1865 and then to Belfast about 1880. The scrap books and the book of birth dates helped a lot in my research. I have been able to find some of the birth records for his children using the Registrations indexes. The IGI has a few records (early 1860's only). I have found a few people here. However to get BMD certificates to need to know the names, the parents names, dates and places. You can download order forms from the GRO Ireland web site. The National Archives in Dublin is also another place you need to contact/visit. Census records (1901 and 1911) and Wills are available here along with many other records. The National Library in Dublin is also another source for records. If you know where people lived then you need to look at the Parish Records. A lot of these are held by the Representative Church Body in Dublin I visited there a couple oy years ago and they were very helpful in explaining which records were available, which ones had been lost, etc. Then the plod work. The Griffiths Valuation and the Tithe Applotment records. These generally tell you heads of households and land ownership and tenancy. To use them effectively yuou really need to have some idea of where people lived I hope these notes help but if you have any questions`please ask Good luck with the Smith's Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Lewis" <wendy.linedancer@btinternet.com> To: <IRL-DUBLIN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:24 AM Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN] Obtaining birth/marriage information > > I received no response to my first posting, which is fair enough, as > presumably no one is tracing the SMYTH/SMITH, TANCRED AND TIERNEY families > in Dublin in which I am interested. But I also asked how I could go about > obtaining information on a couple of births in Dublin (c1831/1833) and a > marriage c1850. > > So, please, is there any way I can trace the above-mentioned births and > marriage in Dublin? >