Hello Marion,
Thanks for your message and I must admit to have been rather tardy in
responding. I enjoyed reading of your success in locating forebears and their
townlands from the tithe applotment books (TABs). Thank you for the feedback.
And no I’m not thinking of giving up.
I keep finding interesting differences between TABs and Griffiths Valuation and
today located an entry of Stainton in a TAB of 1829, but recorded as Staughton
in Griffiths c1860.: yes, best to keep all options open.
Continued good luck with your research,
Len Swindley
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Hello Len,
I’m afraid we are all guilty of taking you for granted but I for one greatly
appreciate all the work you do for us. Without the TABs on CTI I would never
have found my ancestors from that era, particularly, as for a long time, I was
unable to locate them in Griffiths because of a variation in spelling. The TABs
pointed me to the right townland and then I was able to locate them in
Griffiths.
Please don’t give up!
Regards Marion
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Hello Boyd and CTI subscribers,
For any who are unaware of Boyd Gray’s presence on the genealogical scene, he
is a professional genealogist and a tour de force who maintains a friendly and
informative Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy/ which
is an absolute joy and full of great stories and topics. He has also produced a
series of informative Youtube family history workshops
http://www.cotyroneireland.com/videos/monreagh.html and
http://www.cotyroneireland.com/videos/monreagh.html
Although Boyd resides in Lifford, Co. Donegal, just across the Foyle from
Strabane, he specialises in Donegal, Tyrone and Londonderry family history
research. It is my greatest good luck to maintain an off-list correspondence
with him.
If not for Boyd’s appreciative comments and support, I may have drawn a line
under my project to index the Co. Tyrone tithe applotment books. As stated in
my previous post on this topic, the response to these indexes from CTI List
Subscribers has been a deafening silence, but as a professional genealogist
Boyd recognises these taxation records as a valuable resource and I commend
them to every researcher. They are important. Many thanks, Boyd.
The microfilmed tithe books are available for consultation only at the Public
Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast or online at a LDS Family
History Centre. They record leaseholders of agricultural land; they do not
generally contain genealogical data apart from details such as “widow”,
“senior” or “junior”, but they do record the presence of possibly your forebear
in a townland a whole generation prior to the c1860 Griffiths Valuation. The
online indexes on CTI http://www.cotyroneireland.com/tithe/titheindex.html
eliminate a great amount of time trawling through original images searching for
the relevant townland which can be, at times, almost illegible. I can assure
CTI Listers that the indexes I submit contain identical information (including
phonetic spelling) as recorded on the originals of the 1820s and 1830s and in a
legible format.
The tithe books are most important as they record many leaseholders who sold
their leases and emigrated during the desperate times and harsh economic years
of the Great Famine 1845-52.
I hope everyone is successful in locating an ancestor or a close relation of
your emigrant forebear.
Regards and best of luck,
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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