This website has been created to provide family history information about Con Sullivan, Mary Connors, Peter McDonagh, Kathleen Geary and their ancestors, to their direct descendants and others who might find some of this of interest because they share common ancestors.
Scope
Information about living relatives has been omitted.
To provide context, some information about ancestors’ siblings and other spouses has also been included, although it is not practicable to pursue every connection and subsequent generation.
Format
A number of the pages are best viewed on a PC or tablet. Some diagrams will not display correctly on smaller screens such as phones and some items will not be displayed in the correct order.
The homepage has four main family trees and it is possible to click on any of the branches of the tree to access the page for the person concerned. Once on the page for an individual – or couple – it is usually possible to click on a tree diagram at the top to navigate to their parents’ pages,
or another diagram at the bottom to follow links to their children. Boxes shaded in bright yellow indicate that there is a page for the person concerned, whereas those shaded pale have been included in the diagram for completeness but do not have their own pages.
Whenever a piece of text is in blue and underlined, you can click on the text and be taken to another page containing more detailed information, background or a source document
Dates
Civil records such as censuses and death certificates will often contradict one another in relation to people’s ages. Sometimes a best guess has to be made as to a person’s date of birth based on information available.
Names
Official documents about people would frequently use different spellings for a variety of reasons. For example, the Irish surname Ó’Conchobhair might be anglicised as Connor, Connors, Conners or O’Connor. This site generally settles on a spelling for an individual but historical documents are left unchanged.
Forenames may also vary when an individuals are given saints’ names at their baptism, while other names are actually used in civil records.
Elsewhere, unofficial additional surnames are given to families with very common names such as McCarthy or Downey and sometimes these will appear in local records.
Accuracy
Information has been checked as thoroughly as possible to ensure that facts about individuals – and their relationships with others – has been verified, using primary sources wherever available. Citations are given for all these sources and the Genealogical Proof Standard is employed to test any assumptions. Nevertheless, given the limited availability of records in some cases – and the issues with names and dates mentioned above – the information is constantly reviewed. Feedback and questions are welcome in this regard.
Feedback
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