Added Photos

I've just added photos to the web trees in the database section of the site.

Corrections on the Kirwan Side

I've just discovered a few error's in what I had previously posted about my Dublin ancestors. I made an unsubstantiated leap which just didn't hold up to scrutiny.

Now thanks to Irish Genealogy (http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/) a free government site containing at the moment only Dublin and Kerry records I've been able to correct it and the corrected data is on the site.

FamilySearch Record Search

An index of Ireland's Civil Registration (including births, 1864-1958, marriages, 1845-1958, and deaths, 1864-1958) is now available online at FamilySearch Record Search.

For an explanation of Civil Registration see http://www.from-ireland.net/gene/civilregistration.htm

Future Plans for the Census

The National Archives have announced that full data from all 32 counties for the 1911 census has been placed online. (Here - Future Plans for the Census)

They plan to add the data for the 1901 census by early next year.

UK's last Great War veteran dies at 111

Harry Patch | First world war veteran | Obituary | World news | The Guardian

An amazing man he described the First World War as 'legalised mass murder'. When he returned to Ypres to lay a wreath to remember his dead comrades he also took time to lay another at a German War Cemetery.