O’Cahill – In early medieval times the most important sept of O’Cahill was that located in County Galway near the Clare border. The head of which was Chief of Kinelea, but by the middle of the thirteenth century their former position as the leading family in Kilmacdaugh had been taken by … Continue reading →
A large number of new website links have been added to the Links page. Lots of new, interesting and hopefully useful genealogical links to websites for the researcher.
Continue reading →If you are researching births, marriages or deaths in Gloucestershire then you will find this website very useful. The [weaver_popup_link href=’http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/MainMenu.aspx’ h=’500′ w=’800′ scrollbars=false] Gloucestershire BMD Indexes[/weaver_popup_link] are a joint project between Gloucestershire Registration Service, Gloucestershire Archives and the Gloucestershire Family History Society. Volunteers have been indexing the records and adding … Continue reading →
A very useful website maps.familysearch.org has come to my attention. The site is based on the 1851 jurisdictions of England and Wales and allows the user to zoom in and examine different features in a graphical form. The map is able to display counties as seen here or configured to show … Continue reading →