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Permalink Reply by Jack Mc Donald on December 30, 2009 at 8:22am

Rita,
You will get information on these names for Births, Marriages, Deaths at;http://search.labs.familysearch.org
and if you require certificates to confirm the details you can order them at; www.groireland.ie
Jack

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Permalink Reply by Susan J. Barretta on January 15, 2010 at 7:50pm

If you are searching for people after the mid 1800's, I may have several links hanging off my blog that could be useful to you. Collins of Skibbereen. Look in the right column.

Be sure to browse the 1911 census, it can be very useful. The National Archive office is working to put 1901 online, but I don't know when that will occur.

The Irish Times map of civil parishes might be helpful to you if you don't have a clue as to where to start looking. It lists civil parishes, and for each civil parish, it lists the townlands in that parish plus surname frequencies from households tabulated at the time. I don't know if the tabulation was from an old census or from Griffiths - I think it is from Griffiths.

If you want to poke around in Cork, then click on Cork. Then on the next page, click on one of the three sections of Cork. If you want southwest Cork, click on the lower left portion. If you click on 12, that is Castlehaven parish. Scroll, and near the bottom on the lower left, you will see a table of common surnames. There were 20 Hegarty households tabulated in the parish when the count was taken.

Griffiths Valuation of Ireland will help you locate possible ancestors from around the 1850's. That website can be a bit slow so be patient with it. Put in a last name of Hegarty, specify Cork for County. When I specify Skibbereen for Union and Castlehaven for Parish, I get a good list of Hegartys, well over 20 matches.

The LDS pilot program is very good. The Ireland GRO started registrations in 1864, so it will not have records of births, marriages, and deaths prior to that (the exception being non-Catholic marriages). To the best of my knowledge, LDS has microfilms of the birth records from 1864 through part of 1881 and then from 1900 through 1921; deaths from 1864 through 1870, and marriages from 1864 through 1870 (non-Catholic from 1845). Your local LDS family history center will likely have a table that lists each index film and the corresponding register film (I don't know if this is online). So if you use LDS resources just remember the PILOT program lists the index film number but the volume and page number listed is for a corresponding register. Your other option is to just go view the index films at the local FHC, there are advantages to doing that versus searching online.

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