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/7855.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi ljay, If you go to the Leitrim-Roscommon website you'll find lots of information about Roscommon: http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml The Roscommon 1901 census is online in this search link, pick Roscommon as your search county, there are no surviving census records before 1901: http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census/census.shtml Hanley is a very common surname in County Roscommon and there are 66 families listed there in the 1901 census if you search the census by surname. Hanley is also a very common surname in Ireland and it's found in all 32 counties. The same surname doesn't mean any family connections whatsoever. There wasn't just one Hanley family who were all related either in Roscommon or the rest of Ireland. Have you searched for Agnes information in England? Agnes was born before civil registration started in Ireland in 1864 so there won't be any civil birth record for her. The church records for wherever she was born in County Roscommon would be the possible source for a baptismal record for her if the parish records survive back to her birth year. Here's a link to the Roman Catholic parish maps in County Roscommon, click on each parish to see what years the parish records cover and where they can be searched, not all parish records are complete for all years: http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/rcmaps/roscommonrc.htm Agnes civil and church marriage records in the US should include where she was born in County Roscommon. Then you can see if the Roman Catholic parish records for that location survive for her birth year. Her children's civil and church records in England may include where their mother was born in Ireland. Most cemetery records aren't transcribed anywhere and are not online. There are hundreds of cemeteries in Roscommon and thousands of cemeteries in Ireland. You'd have to know where the various family members were buried and visit the cemeteries in that burial location to see if there were tombstones for them. Not everyone had tombstones. Irish civil registration/vital records death records are microfilmed and available through your nearest LDS Family History Centre in the US. You'd need to know the dates of death of family members to search for any death records there might be. Many deaths weren't registered. The IFHF website includes the following records for County Roscommon, you'll see they don't have complete records for all locations and all years. Cloontuskert Catholic records for example don't start until 1865: http://roscommon.brsgenealogy.com/generic.php?filename=sources.tpl&selectedMenu=showdatabase The IFHF website includes a map of the counties of Ireland so you can see where they are. If you click on each county on the map and search the local Heritage Centre information you'll see what records they have online. They don't have all records online of the records that survive, and not all records survive. I have heard also there is a very high error rate on the IFHF database according to Irish Government audits. 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.