Greetings,
Ireland Reaching Out has been great to help me find out that my great grandfather came from Carrigalen.
I am hoping from these three additional sites (Connaught, Leitrim and Carrigallen sites) to be able to get further information on my great grandfather and possibly my great grandmother:
Name: Peter Morris
Born: 30 September 1864
Place: Carrigalen, Leitrim, I
Father: Mathew Morris
Mother: Anne McCabe
Married: Catherine (or Katherine) Gardner
Date: January 1888
Place: Boston, MA, USA
Born: exact date unknown - likely 1860
Place: Ireland (unknown locale)
Father: Michael Gardner
Mother: Bridget (Maiden name unkown)
Any help would be great. In advance, thanks! Paul Carroll
carrnab
Friday 25th Jan 2013, 01:42PMMessage Board Replies
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Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reasonwhy they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given atthe port of arrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g.Liverpool, New York, etc.), this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps evenfind out an exact place of origin. Ellis Island:http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden:http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info:http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/ 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 Also try these links;The National Archives of Irelandhttp://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1/genealogy-records/introduction/ The National Library of Irelandhttp://www.nli.ie/en/family-history-introduction.aspx The National Archives UK ? genealogy search
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/
The Public Records Office of Northern Irelandhttp://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history.htm The US National Archiveshttp://www.archives.gov/
Thursday 21st Feb 2013, 10:45AM