Genealogy Chat

Michaela,

Murphys are the most popular Irish name you can find. A bit like a British Smith!!!! And no, you will not find that all people by the name of Murphy will be related, unless you get back to some date at which time they will have a Celtic name beginning with O, and Pat will be more clued on that than me! Sadly, we have Murphys in Wexford, but there are so many in that county and we have the Townland, but even that has not helped in sorting all the families of Murphy out for even a small area. I do not wish to put a damper on your enthusiasm, but please do as Pat has said and find, first of all, a County and then a Townland, before thinking of going any further, unless you want to climb many many Murphy trees! Please do try to resist the temptation of just collecting Murphy names and then trying to make them fit into some sort of tree pattern! That is not good genealogical practice.

Hello Pat, nice to "see" you again!

Janet North London Borders

How is it all going are you having any luck in finding those MURPHY KELLY kids.
I have them in my tree too, so please keep your patience and soldier on, I completely understand your searching stress.
irish records are a pain in the rear. But may I add there are ways of finding such information.
Give me dates and names and I can surely help you put together this central park sized jigsaw..
Regards, Helen MURPHY.

Michaela Tracing Murphy, Kelly or any of the 'O' names is near impossible. Even if you get the County they were from if you do not know what's known as the Townland you will find there are FAR TOO MANY with the name for each year to go through. You can never know which one is which, there are literally hundreds with those common names and the indexes are far too big an area to know who is who. sorry, but it's almost impossible unless down the generations people were told exactly where the family originated from Pat x

Hi All, Thanks for the information. I must be mad trying to trace the Murphy family line - but I do love a challenge!!!! Michaela

There is an Irish Certificate exchange site online - somewhere. I'd give you the link but I've changed internet provider and lost my favourites. UKBDM covers Northern Ireland.

Hi, Afraid you are out of luck, finding relatives of Irish birth can be a long difficult road!!! I at least you know the County they came from, thats a good start (I do not know my gt grandfathers County only that he was born in Ireland!! hopeless search at present!!) Your next best bet, would be to put requests on the Irish boards. There are quite a number of these on site, and you might strike lucky. Why not start with (remove brackets) www(.)britishislesgenweb(.)org/cgi-bin/data/ireland-cgi?form=0 Also try using Google, put in query for Irish message boards & see what comes up Good luck

This may sound like a real dumb question but is there anywhere I can search Irish births on line?