http://blog.myheritage.com/2012/01/genealogy-advice-competition-one-day-left/ Fri, 17 May 2013 11:48:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.myheritage.com/2012/01/genealogy-advice-competition-one-day-left/#comment-14983 Roisin Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:41:05 +0000 http://blog.myheritage.com/?p=19565#comment-14983 Remember Irish names are very difficult to trace e.g...Bridget/Brigid could also be Delia.....O Malley/Malley same name ending up Melia etc etc and place names...impossible....e.g just for one person.....village Dowagh WEST...parish CROSS/CONG/THE NEALE......townland HOUNDSWOOD..barony KILMAINE poor area BALLINROBE and postal district CLAEMORRIS county MAYO......graveyard Cong/Kilfraughan/Billypark........and a person could be listed under any of these on different documents relating to the same person Remember Irish names are very difficult to trace e.g…Bridget/Brigid could also be Delia…..O Malley/Malley same name ending up Melia etc etc and place names…impossible….e.g just for one person…..village Dowagh WEST…parish CROSS/CONG/THE NEALE……townland HOUNDSWOOD..barony KILMAINE poor area BALLINROBE and postal district CLAEMORRIS county MAYO……graveyard Cong/Kilfraughan/Billypark……..and a person could be listed under any of these on different documents relating to the same person

]]> http://blog.myheritage.com/2012/01/genealogy-advice-competition-one-day-left/#comment-14919 Clyde Bollinger Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:07:08 +0000 http://blog.myheritage.com/?p=19565#comment-14919 Immigration records require a great imagination sometimes since the official record may only be a phonetic representation of the actual name(s). First and Middle names may not have been recorded, only initials. Immigration records require a great imagination sometimes since the official record may only be a phonetic representation of the actual name(s).
First and Middle names may not have been recorded, only initials.

]]> http://blog.myheritage.com/2012/01/genealogy-advice-competition-one-day-left/#comment-14906 PAUL CURWOOD Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:55:25 +0000 http://blog.myheritage.com/?p=19565#comment-14906 My advice is to not merely record life event and dates of ancestors, but make the dead information come alive with written sketches of what ancestors' day to day lives were like, as well as the worlds they lived in. Their struggles to survive, their often heroic ventures into strange new worlds, the often dark corners of lives beset by treachery and tragedy, are often wonderful discoveries and the great rewards of genealogy My advice is to not merely record life event and dates of ancestors, but make the dead information come alive with written sketches of what ancestors’ day to day lives were like, as well as the worlds they lived in. Their struggles to survive, their often heroic ventures into strange new worlds, the often dark corners of lives beset by treachery and tragedy, are often wonderful discoveries and the great rewards of genealogy

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