Dears,
I´m writing you from Argentina because I´m requesting information concerning my great grandmother. I would be very grateful if you could send me details for my searching. I add the data that I could to find about she.
Your name was Clare Cloonan y McCormack.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Yours sincerely.
Marina Raggio
Tuesday 12th Feb 2013, 12:05AM
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Hi sir have a look on these links that i have posted you mite get luckly The Irish in Argentina - The Immigration Museum in Buenos Aires run by the Department of theInterior has individual cards with the names of Irish immigrants stored in their archive. The MuseoNacional de la Inmigraci?n (Avenida Ant?rtida Argentina 1355; - is open 10 a.m.?5 p.m. weekdays,11 a.m.?6 p.m. weekends. tel. 011/43170285, museodelainmigracion@migraciones.gov.ar for freeor try: http://www.migraciones.gov.ar/accesible/?museo Things to enquire about include: occupations, places of residence, who they were living with(people often stayed with others from their home villages after emigration), siblings & other familymembers, first names (important -as usually past from father to son/mother to daughter) ages attime of emigration, possible dates of birth/death, religious denominations. Also ask if there are anysurviving photographs, old documents or letters - record all the information you can find. Write/telephone other members of your family to check details -perhaps they can remember otherfacts about your ancestors? Hopefully when you have done this - some clues will emerge! After youhave identified the emigrant- begin tracing the steps back to Ireland. Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reason why they left, who they mighthave travelled with..etc.? Generally more information was given at the port of arrival rather than theport of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g. Liverpool, Ellis Island), this could be agood place to find more information, and perhaps even find out an exact place of origin. Shippingmanifests can be checked ?which may lead to more clues. The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml