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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 09:40 AM
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Did anyone here have relatives in Ireland in 1911? New online searchable census.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/


A new database for Irish genealogy and research was yesterday released online by the National Library of Ireland. The free searchable version of the April 1911 family census contains information from the 32 counties and is searchable using any combination of name, surname, age, sex and place. It gives access not only to a database of information but to images of the original census forms which would have been handwritten by the head of the household.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0830/breaking10.html?via=mr
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 09:54 AM
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1. Thanks Jackeens. Passing this around to my family.
:hi:
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:07 AM
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4. I searched for Pinto - not a sign of you! Tried O'Pinto - still no joy!
:hi:
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 09:57 AM
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2. My grandmother fled Ireland in 1908.
"It's a beautiful place to starve.", said she.
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:06 AM
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3. LOL! The famine was over then by 59 years - so she wouldn't have gone hungry!
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:17 AM
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5. My grandfather told us stories of his grandfather, who told him
the one thing he'd remember his entire life was living in Ireland as a child and being hungry the entire time, before emigrating to this country. This would have been in the 1880's.

He said he never had a full stomach until he came to America, and was astounded at all the food available.

Rent farmers barely grew enough to pay the landlords, let alone anything to feed their families.
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:24 AM
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7. That's true, tenant farmers with hateful landlords paid exorbitant rent....
...it left them little to feed their familes with. But then the Irish National Land League was born and fought for them - ultimately they were successful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Land_League
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:22 AM
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6. Plenty o'poverty though.
My grandfather came over long after the famine and he was well acquainted with hunger.

Julie
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:25 AM
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8. That's true, they were grim times.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:26 AM
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9. There doesn't need to be a famine to starve.
And, in Mayo plenty of people were going hungry.
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:38 AM
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12. True, the western seaboard in Ireland suffered, mainly due to poor farming land and high rents.
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Michigan-Arizona Donating Member (516 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:30 AM
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10. Thank you very much for this info.....
It's been like a needle in a hay stack looking for my MURPHY's! Again thank you!
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:38 AM
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13. Oh no - good luck finding your Murphy!!
:rofl:
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:39 AM
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14. LOL! That'd be like tracing Jones in Wales. Good luck! nt
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:38 AM
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11. Thank you. My husband's family were still in Ireland then.
I've just gotten started trying to trace them back.
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Jackeens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:46 AM
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15. Hope you find them DevonRex, best of luck.
:hi:
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 11:02 AM
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16. very cool. I've emailed this to my Dad.
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