Hi Everyone Please excuse the generalised mailing here, but I am trying to follow up on relatives who remained in Ireland after my g-grandfather left in 1875. Have so far managed to come down a generation or so, and find births between 1875 and 1891 approx. This means that it is likely that these people may have offspring still living today (they are the same generation as my father). In Ireland - Eire and Ulster - is there a system similar to what we have in NZ of a register of electors - all those people eligible to vote who are enrolled on the electoral system - and is available to the public? Gives full names, and address? Am probably trying to short circuit a bit of hunting <grin> however it may pay dividends if it is available. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards Karen Hitchcock (nee Guy) Auckland, NZ Researching Guy family, Cos Donegal, Fermanagh & Tyrone

Karen; One of many places that gives you what records are available in Ireland is the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) located in Belfast. Dublin has a large genealogy center as well. Looking on PRONI's web site will tell you what records are available, but won't give you much in online records that you can search or read. http://proni.nics.gov.uk/ While not being the Voters List you were looking for, a good source fitting in your time period, is to use Jean Rice's 1876 Landowners lists that she has compiled for each Co. in Ireland. To find these lists, go to the Rootsweb web site at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.britisles.ireland Using the search engine there and selecting "All Boards" (default) put in the keywords of "Jean Rice Landowners". This will bring up all her Landowner records that she compiled for every Co. in Ireland. This will be a large number of listings and they are broken up into alphabetical sections for each Co., having about 20 listings just for one Co. If you know the Co. where your relatives are located, then select that Co. to do your search in, using the same key words. Be sure to check the box next to the search engine in that Co., so that you only get that Co.'s records, not all Co.'s records. This will give you the 20 or so listings for that Counties Landowners Lists. Searching through the listings, you can zero in on the group that covers your surname. The Landowners List is for all owners of land, one acre or more, so doesn't include those with smaller parcels. There are many bits of data on the various message boards, mailing lists, surname lists, and contributed family tree search sites that are online, one being at http://www.familysearch.com. Searching these online sources can lead you to some good information that might help you too. Using a search engine such as http://www.google.com and putting in "guy genealogy fermanagh" Gives you 204 " Guy hits", just for Fermanagh. Doing the same for the other locations can yield similar numbers of hits. Searching these hits will usually turn up some good things that are helpful. Putting in the townland in place of Fermanagh, refines the hits to fewer numbers and may help as well. A long winded answer to a simple request, but answering it this way might help you and others. I hope it will. Norm Ruddock Ruddock, McConnell, McMullen/McMullan, Finley/Finlay, Thomson/Thompson A & K Hitchcock wrote: >Hi Everyone >Please excuse the generalised mailing here, but I am trying to follow up on relatives who remained in Ireland after my g-grandfather left in 1875. > >Have so far managed to come down a generation or so, and find births between 1875 and 1891 approx. This means that it is likely that these people may have offspring still living today (they are the same generation as my father). > >In Ireland - Eire and Ulster - is there a system similar to what we have in NZ of a register of electors - all those people eligible to vote who are enrolled on the electoral system - and is available to the public? Gives full names, and address? > >Am probably trying to short circuit a bit of hunting <grin> however it may pay dividends if it is available. > >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >Regards >Karen Hitchcock (nee Guy) >Auckland, NZ >Researching Guy family, Cos Donegal, Fermanagh & Tyrone > > > >==== NorthernIrelandGenWeb Mailing List ==== >NO Virus warnings, seasonal greetings or private 'chit-chat' on this >list, okay! Other than that, anything pertaining to the lives and times >of those we seek goes, but MUST be kept within the *List's Golden Rule*. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >