by Daniel Loftus | Daniel's Genealogy | Sep 17, 2021 | Irish Research, What can be found on a...
Welcome to The Hidden Branch’s new series, “What can be found on a…” – the series where we present a record and show you how much information can be obtained from it. This will be a series done by other members of the team as well as me...
by Daniel Loftus | Daniel's Genealogy | Jul 2, 2021 | Biographies
One thing I don’t really do very often is actually tell the story of my ancestors. But this one I found quite interesting was the story of my great grandmother. (NOTE: Cáit is the Irish for Kate which is a version of Catherine) So let’s start as the very...
by Daniel Loftus | Daniel's Genealogy | Jun 22, 2021 | Tuesday Tips
Having Irish census trouble and having a hard time trying to find people? Make sure to try out these searching tips as one of these may be the key to try and get you back a further generation. Tip #1 – Ages Don’t assume that ages recorded are correct. Ages...
by Daniel Loftus | Daniel's Genealogy | Mar 30, 2021 | Tuesday Tips
Have an ancestor who was a priest or a nun and having trouble finding them? So did Gearoid, a while ago he needed help to find one of his ancestors who was a priest and he couldn’t find the death cert under his birth name. The priest in this case had taken...
by Daniel Loftus | Daniel's Genealogy | Mar 14, 2021 | Miscellaneous
Now, if you follow me over on Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been raising awareness on the petition started by CIGO* to try and start the process of getting the 1926 Irish Census released, for Ireland this is the first census done after the 1911 Census as...
