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Introduction Family reports vary from family to family so these pages only give a brief idea of what to expect. The details on these pages are for illustration only and don't refer to a real family.
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Introduction Family reports vary from
family to family so these pages only give a brief idea of
what to expect. The details on these pages are for
illustration only and don't refer to a real
family. Introduction The accounts of the families given here are
presented in a version of the narrative style
devised by Sir Bernard Burke, the originator of
such works as "Burke's Peerage" and
"Burke's Landed Gentry" Using this system,
as much information as possible about each
individual can be displayed. Each generation is
designated by a common series of letters or
numbers. The earliest known male ancestor in each
family is given at the beginning of each account;
because, in most cases, none of his brothers or
sisters names can be established with certainty, he
is not given any number or letter. Each of his
known children - the second generation - are
designated by an Arabic number: 1, 2, 3 etc.; their
children - the third generation - are designated by
upper case or capital Roman letters: A, B, C etc.;
the fourth generation from the earliest known
ancestor are designated by lower case Roman
numerals - i, ii, iii, iv etc.; the fifth
generation, by lower case Roman letters - a, b, c
etc. To help distinguish one generation from
another, each successive generation is stepped-in
further to the right - about one-third of an inch -
than the previous one. The names of direct
ancestors of the enquirer are given in upper case
lettering and are underlined, e.g. PATRICK
KELLY. The main sources used in the construction of
these genealogies, besides the details provided by
the enquirer, were the General Valuation of
Rateable Property in Ireland, 1856 (also called
"Griffith's Valuation"); the parochial
registers of baptism and marriage for the Roman
Catholic parish of Kilbride, which commence in 1834
(baptisms) and 1807 (marriages); the civil
registers of births, marriages and deaths for the
civil registration area of Ballymore, cornmencing
in 1864; and the census of population, 1901. In all
cases where both civil records of birth and church
records of baptism were available, the latter was
used because it is generally nearer the correct
date of birth than the former.1 It should be noted that the South Mayo Family
Research Centre holds records only up to
1901, and so any dates later than this, and
included here are taken either from the enquirer's
own information or from gravestone
inscriptions. Where a name and date of birth or baptism is
given, with no further details, it is taken that no
further identifiable references to that individual
were found in the data-base in the form of
marriage, census, death or gravestone records. c. circa, approximately fl. fiourit, alive in the year
stated. Civ. reg. births., mars., deaths Ballymore, (etc.) civil register of
births, marriages and deaths. R.C. reg. bapts., mars. Kilbride, (etc.) Roman Catholic
church register of baptisms and
marriages.
Report examples included on
these pages:
in a
Sample
Family History
Report
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Discrepancies in dates between civil birth
and baptismal records are quite common in the
nineteenth century, and can usually be explained by
the fact that fines were payable for late civil
registration of births; birth-dates were often
brought forward to avoid such fines. Since baptisms
usually took place within a week of birth, and
frequently one or two days after the birth, these
records are usually a better indication of when a
birth actually took place than civil
records.
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