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Ancestry/Genealogy

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bucolic_frolic

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3. You're lucky if you have a county and birth year
Sun Sep 1, 2024, 07:44 PM
Sep 2024

If I think on it I probably have both those ingredients, but not too firm on the year (from census.

The problem with Irish records is everyone has the same names. There could be hundreds of for example Margaret Brennans in a given county. Hundreds!!

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