Len.I was concerned about your comment "but my decade-long project of transcribing every parish in Co. Tyrone has brought zero response" and wondered if you feel people aren't viewing your transcription work, or ??I don't want you to think your work isn't valued!Whenever I get a notice about your transcriptions if they're in my people's areas, I have a look!I have found much useful info.How do you measure the 'response' to your transcriptions, as I don't think you'd know that I was viewing them?Thanks, and please keep up your work!Peggy, Canada. (Grandfather Dr. George W. Knipe came to Canada 1911. Unagh, near Cookstown, Watson, McCall, Mcgeagh lines from Cty. Tyrone and Armagh.)
------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 13:35:34 +0000 From: Len Swindley <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Griffith's Valuation Online Message-ID: <sl2p216mb0506ecef2f29f5fdd4fb47f8e0...@sl2p216mb0506.korp216.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hello Boyd and all, I cannot stress the value of the Tithe Applotment Books to Irish researchers, but my decade-long project of transcribing every parish in Co. Tyrone has brought zero response and I have often wondered the value of continuing with the project. Some parishes have two surviving books and both warrant transcribing: tithe payers may be recorded in c1825 but gone (generally emigrated) by the late 1830s. The possibly easiest method to locate the origins of emigrant forebears is to refer to Griffiths Valuation (c1860) http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/ for any concentration of the names/s you are researching and then refer to the relevant tithe applotment books. Am not sure if it will be possible to create an index from my files (formatted in Word), but will be considered. To date, the number of pages compiled amounts to 1,504, and the number of entries recording the names of tithe payers amounts to in excess of 35,000. And the transcribing continues. It is a major project and is not being undertaken in any other county in Northern Ireland. These are VERY important records. Best wishes with your researching, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________
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