Phyllis--  You probably know this, but I thought I should mention it for the benefit of any new researchers.  Griffith's is a census subtitute, not a census.  It was done over a number of years to valuate land holdings.  You will only find the names of those who owned or leased land, and you will not find out who else or how many others were in the household .  Also, you may also find the same people listed more than once.   Griffith's is certainly invaluable, but is not the same as a census.   Kathleen --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Phyllis M. Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: From: Phyllis M. Phillips <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] Photo added To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 8:06 AM Have you checked the site I sent over for a 1851 census which was called Griffens On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:30 PM, VERONICA HAGIN wrote: > Hi Christina: > > We received and opened your phots---they are beautiful! > > You are so lucky. My great great grandfather JOHN THORNTON and his > wife ANN nee HAMILTON, left County Galway in 1830 and migrated to > Liverpool, Lancashire. In all subsequent England Census, his four > Irish-born children consistently gave the County of Galway as their > birth place but nothing else. My direct lineage, JOHN THORNTON was > born in Ormskirk, Lancashire in 1830+/-. > > As his great, great granddaughter, born in Northumberland, UK in 1932, > I immigrated to north America in 1956. Have been fortunate to > recovered all of JOHN'S English-born relatives but have no place to > start with his Ireland-born ancestors. With three American-born > daughters and seven grandchildren, my bibliography on our ancestors > is almost complete but would love to go backwards into the County of > Galway. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Veronica THORNTON Hagin > northern California > > > On Feb 18, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Phyllis M. Phillips wrote: > >> How do you pull it up where do you click?? >> >> >> On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Christina Finn Hunt wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> We have had our first family photo added to the Galway section of >>> the IGP >>> Archives. >>> I thought some of you would like to get a feel for what we are >>> trying to >>> accomplish with shared photos and data. >>> http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/galway/photos.htm >>> >>> To contribute: >>> http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/ >>> >>> Regards, >>> Christina >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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

You are right. I think it gives you a starting point as to where in Ireland they maybe from. As you well know when you do look ups for Bapt-Marriages-Deaths. It only says place Ireland On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:42 AM, MK Douglas wrote: > Phyllis-- You probably know this, but I thought I should mention it > for the benefit of any new researchers. Griffith's is a census > subtitute, not a census. It was done over a number of years to > valuate land holdings. You will only find the names of those who > owned or leased land, and you will not find out who else or how many > others were in the household . Also, you may also find the same > people listed more than once. > > Griffith's is certainly invaluable, but is not the same as a census. > > Kathleen > > --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Phyllis M. Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Phyllis M. Phillips <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] Photo added > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 8:06 AM > > Have you checked the site I sent over for a 1851 census which was > called Griffens > > On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:30 PM, VERONICA HAGIN wrote: > >> Hi Christina: >> >> We received and opened your phots---they are beautiful! >> >> You are so lucky. My great great grandfather JOHN THORNTON and his >> wife ANN nee HAMILTON, left County Galway in 1830 and migrated to >> Liverpool, Lancashire. In all subsequent England Census, his four >> Irish-born children consistently gave the County of Galway as their >> birth place but nothing else. My direct lineage, JOHN THORNTON was >> born in Ormskirk, Lancashire in 1830+/-. >> >> As his great, great granddaughter, born in Northumberland, UK in >> 1932, >> I immigrated to north America in 1956. Have been fortunate to >> recovered all of JOHN'S English-born relatives but have no place to >> start with his Ireland-born ancestors. With three American-born >> daughters and seven grandchildren, my bibliography on our ancestors >> is almost complete but would love to go backwards into the County of >> Galway. Does anyone have any suggestions? >> >> Veronica THORNTON Hagin >> northern California >> >> >> On Feb 18, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Phyllis M. Phillips wrote: >> >>> How do you pull it up where do you click?? >>> >>> >>> On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Christina Finn Hunt wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> We have had our first family photo added to the Galway section of >>>> the IGP >>>> Archives. >>>> I thought some of you would like to get a feel for what we are >>>> trying to >>>> accomplish with shared photos and data. >>>> http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/galway/photos.htm >>>> >>>> To contribute: >>>> http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/ >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Christina >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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