In a message dated 8/24/2004 8:10:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, CathOneill@aol.com writes: > If you haven't already done so,you should conduct a search in Griffiths I am very new to all this and just trying to soak in knowledge.. Can someone please tell me what "Griffiths" is.. I did a "Keyword:Griffiths" to see if I could link to something but of course unless I want to learn more about the Andy Griffith Show" not much else was found ; - ) thanks Leigh in Ohio

Griffiths was a list prepared for tax purposes of those who rented or owned land in Ireland. It was completed for all the counties between 1848 and 1864 and is known as Griffiths Valuation of Ireland or Griffiths Valuation of Tenements in Ireland. It was done in Co. Galway in 1855. Griffiths doesn't contain any family detail. It lists the townland (in the civil parish) and occupiers (i.e. those who rented the property), the immediate lessor (generally the person who actually owned the land), a description of the tenement, i.e. land, land house and offices, land and house, etc., the area, the rateable annual valuation, the total valuation of rateable property and the ordnance survey map reference of the location. Because there are generally no surviving census records for Ireland for the 1800s and civil registration didn't start until 1864, Griffiths is one of the major sources of research in addition to church registers. You need to check the detailed Griffiths lists to identify if the land had a dwelling on it. Many people rented land just for farming and didn't live there. You can search Griffiths for surnames and given names associated with those online and that's fee based. The Irish Origins website gives that fee based access and that's the same site used at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. There are also indexes and transcriptions of it available online but generally they don't contain the detailed information on what was on the land, i.e. if there was a house. You can access microfilm copies of it at a LDS Family History Centre. Eilis O'Hara --- Lejax99@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/24/2004 8:10:42 AM Eastern > Standard Time, > CathOneill@aol.com writes: > > > If you haven't already done so,you should conduct > a search in Griffiths > > I am very new to all this and just trying to soak in > knowledge.. Can someone > please tell me what "Griffiths" is.. I did a > "Keyword:Griffiths" to see if I > could link to something but of course unless I want > to learn more about the > Andy Griffith Show" not much else was found ; - ) > > thanks > Leigh in Ohio > > > ==== IRL-GALWAY Mailing List ==== > East Galway Family History Society: > http://www.irishroots.net/EtGalway.htm > County Galway Library: http://www.galwaylibrary.ie/ > To unsub or change your Irl-Galway mailing mode: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-GALWAY.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the > new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click > to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html