This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: oceanstrands Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.may.general/7568.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jean, I thought you wanted to research your ancestry in Ballyhaunis. But I see you're looking for information about your grandfather who emigrated to the UK and then to the US in the 1920s and 1930s. Unfortunately there aren't any records here in Mayo or Ireland that would help you identify where he went either in the UK or the US. You would need to search US records to get information about him locally wherever he emigrated there. For any family records in Ireland, all Irish civil registrations records for the Twentieth Century at least through the 1950s (perhaps later) are available on microfilm through your nearest LDS family History Centre. They're in date order so they need to be searched by date. Since I live here I research the original records at the General Register Office Research Room in Dublin near the Financial Services Centre. You mention you live in the UK. That could be England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. However, you can search the LDS website http://www.familysearch.org for a LDS Family History Centre nearest you in whichever country you reside. You can also access the US Federal census records online through your nearest LDS Family History Centre. The last US Federal census released is 1930. It's searchable by surname. Of course there are 50 US States where your grandfather could have gone but you could search the 1930 US Federal census for him and his brothers there. Many people went into the US through Ellis Island and those records are online: http://www.ellisisland.org/ He also would have had to join US Social Security retirement and the US Social Security Death Index is also online: http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/ssdi http://stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html There wouldn't be any records in Mayo or Ireland about your grandfather in the UK or in the US. Many tens of thousands of people emigrated during the Twentieth Century just from Mayo and several million from Ireland and there are no records here in Mayo or Ireland about where they went or what happened to them after emigration. The last census records released here in Ireland is 1911 and that's not online. You can post on the US message boards wherever you believe your grandfather emigrated for information about records there. I don't live in the US or the UK. I live in Mayo. Best of luck with your research. Oceanstrands Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.