John, here's a link to an article that will answer most of your questions about Griffith's: http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/GRIFFITH/more_to_griffiths.html I can order some of them quickly here. Loghney would not be a transcription error for Loughney, but simply a reflection of the fact that many names didn't have standardized spellings in those days. Griffith's occupiers were heads of households, so if your greatgrandfather's father had died, the lease probably passed to his widow , brother, or oldest son. You can follow the passing on of leases on the revised valuations, which the LDS have filmed. There were no hard-and-fast rules for names, but the first children were often named for the grandparents, the next round for the parents, then aunts and uncles. However, among my ancestors, only about half the families followed that practice. Diane

Hi Diane, Thanks for sending this, this helped. I actually had a bit of luck and I was able to get my ggrandfather's death certificate after asking a 2nd time for it. With that, I have been able to get fairly unique names for his parents and found them on Griffiths. Thanks much for the help, John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ext [email protected] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 5:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-MAYO] Need a little help navigating Griffiths Valuations John, here's a link to an article that will answer most of your questions about Griffith's: http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/GRIFFITH/more_to_griffiths.html I can order some of them quickly here. Loghney would not be a transcription error for Loughney, but simply a reflection of the fact that many names didn't have standardized spellings in those days. Griffith's occupiers were heads of households, so if your greatgrandfather's father had died, the lease probably passed to his widow , brother, or oldest son. You can follow the passing on of leases on the revised valuations, which the LDS have filmed. There were no hard-and-fast rules for names, but the first children were often named for the grandparents, the next round for the parents, then aunts and uncles. However, among my ancestors, only about half the families followed that practice. Diane ------------------------------- 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