Re: O'Conner Family in Bulloch Co, GA in 1850
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O'Conner Family in Bulloch Co, GA in 1850
Barbara Crites 7/26/07
The southern states offered free land as a bounty to attract settlers. They advertised in Ireland.
I research the Irish Family History Foundation's database. It contains 12,000,000 surviving rcds for abt 65% of Irish counties. Rcds are increasingly sparse B4 1840, rare B4 1800.
Note 1 - Without a KNOWN parish, the chance of an ancestor's rcds NOT being in this database is AT LEAST 35%.
Note 2 - Only 1/2 of Co. Cork's rcds are in this database.
Note 3 - The RC church kept control over most parish rcds from Tipperary (north). These are ONLY available thru the Tipperary Family History Research center at a substantial fee (regardless of outcome).
For Daniel O'Conner (+variants) B 1810 somewhere in Ireland with father's forename unknown, I found 1 B rcd for a Daniel Meagher (a variant) in Kilkenny. This MAY be for your ancestor, but likely not as less than 10% of B events were being rcd'd at this early date.
Google the Foundation's name to lead you to this database. Register, opt to be notified as rcds are added and browse. Pls post your search results to my genforum msg.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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Re: O'Conner Family in Bulloch Co, GA in 1850
Barbara Crites 12/14/08