Griffiths Valuation...free. Original Images!!!! YAYYYYY

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:53 pm

See:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 19968.html

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
GRIFFITH'S VALUATION, the most detailed guide to people and property in mid-19th century Ireland, has gone online for free for the first time.

One of the most important surviving genealogical sources from the era after the Famine, the valuation is likely to be of use to family history researchers in Ireland and throughout the world.

The version available on the askaboutireland.ie website is searchable by family name and place name; copies of the original document can be printed off; and the website also includes maps from the mid-19th century and contemporary maps from Google Earth.

The document has been available on a number of Irish and US websites for a number of years, but information could only be accessed on payment of a fee.

Over the past year, however, the Library Council of Ireland has spent €230,000 on digitising its copy of the document and making it available online. The work was also undertaken to ensure the document remained in the public domain.

http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php
WOw...you don't trip over this sorta stuff everyday....and free....

I'll need a wee lie down.
Thanks Helen! Whilst searching the Irish Times web site for their surname distribution page, to try to help with your census query I fell into this page...must be fate....I may be busy for a while

Its TOOOOO much to take in, its like Christmas when you were wee - they have the maps as well... I can hardly cope!!

Best wishes
Lesley

scotmum · Post by **scotmum** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:35 am

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Thanks for sharing this great find.

Rockford · Post by **Rockford** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:39 pm

Hi Lesley,

Thank you so much for pointing this out.

I think I may have found my 3 x greatgrandfather as a tenant in Londonderry in 1859!! $\:D/$ I knew the area and sure enough, there was Mr Burnside!!

Best wishes

Brian

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:54 pm

Thanks Lesley,

Now I’ve got to remember my Irish Great Great Grandmother’s name. It’s been that long since I researched anything on her side of the family.

Alan

Rach · Post by **Rach** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:16 pm

Thank you, Lesley.
I have found a name ............. now, could that be him? It's possible

Rae

Post by **AnneM** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:33 pm

Gosh. How exciting. Probably none of mine around but have looked for an ancestor of a friend whose tree I did and there is someone of that name and lo and behold the landlord has the same name as the man's wife. Do you think he married the landlord's daughter?

Anne

Chris Paton · Post by **Chris Paton** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:15 pm

This site was actually launched about two months ago, though originally under a different URL, and yes, it is absolutely brilliant!

The Irish are finally coming into their own at long last on the genealogy front with all these freebies. Antrim, Down and Kerry 1911 census entries will be online in October, and all of 1901 and 1911 for the whole of Ireland by this time next year.

PRONI is also soon to put up an online catalogue (called ECATNI - Electronic Catalogue Northern Ireland), and more will abstracts are soon to go online on that site, not to mention that the PRONI street directories will soon be available there. These were in fact available until recently on a test site at http://proni.aetopia.com/scripts/WebObj ... irectories, but this URL is now password protected, which hopefully means the records are imminently coming to the main PRONI site!

Chris

JulieAK · Post by **JulieAK** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:35 am

AnneM wrote:Gosh. How exciting. Probably none of mine around but have looked for an ancestor of a friend whose tree I did and there is someone of that name and lo and behold the landlord has the same name as the man's wife. Do you think he married the landlord's daughter?

Anne

Funny, the only one of mine I've found also has his father in law as the landlord.

Post by **AnneM** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:56 am

I can hardly wait for the 1911 and 1901 censuses. I firmly believe that my great grandparents and my great aunt, who are notable by their absence on the 1901 in the rest of the UK, are hiding in or around Belfast in 1901 and I'm desperate to find the rest of my great grandmother's family. I think her mother is dead by 1911 but at last I may find out where she came from from the 1901. The excitement rises!!

Anne

Post by **joette** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:11 pm

How do you find which dates the evaluation covers?
If it's pre 1851 then I think I have found my GGGreat-Grandfather in Donegal with his Father (He's Hugh Kerr & father is Brian/Brendan Kerr)living in same area. I know they came to Scotland between 1844 & 1851 going by the age of the youngest who was born in Ireland.
I only know that's it's Donegal because one of his son's gives it as pob in one of the later Censuses.