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Title: Where do I start?
Post by: moryan on Saturday 07 August 10 00:01 BST (UK)

Hi there.

I am wondering if someone can give me some advice please.  I have been researching my family tree and have hit a brick wall concerning one of my relatives who came from Ireland to Scotland in 1845 (I am assuming due to the potato famine).  I don't know where to start trying to find him in Irish genealogy as I have no idea where he came from.  Does anyone out there have some helpful advice?

Title: Re: Where do I start?
Post by: AMBLY on Saturday 07 August 10 00:12 BST (UK)

Hi moryan

Irish research can be very difficult. If you have no clues as to the county, if it's a common name etc it can be nigh on impossible without anything more to go on.

Was it a couple with children who came over to Scotland? Or just a single person who married in Scotland?
Have you found all possible Census - and none of them say any more than "Ireland"?
If he/they died in Scotland from 1855 +, what does the death cert say about the parents?

Cheers
AMBLY

Title: Re: Where do I start?
Post by: Elwyn Soutter on Monday 09 August 10 10:32 BST (UK)

Advice I have seen others give when faced with this common problem is to check church records where they lived in Scotland to see if they ever made Poor Law applications (an application for financial support) because if they have, there is often reference to which parish they came from in Ireland. I don't know how easy this to do.

Elwyn