Longford Ancestry Ireland
Genealogy of County Longford Ireland Longford Legions
WELCOME
TO
LONGFORD ANCESTRY
This Website is dedicated to the GENEALOGY of the families of Co. LONGFORD, Ireland.
YOUR HOST
An amateur genealogist with Longford ancestry of his own, your host has built up over the past 30 years a unique Genealogical Database of the families and vital records of Co. Longford. This Website was established to:
(1) SHARE freely with others both the contents of the Database, and your host's boundless enthusiasm and interest in Longford genealogy ;
(2) STIMULATE family historians worldwide to participate in the expansion of the Database, by contributing further information from their own researches ; and
(3) SERVE the genealogical community by creating this on-line Register, and promote it's use as a clearing-house for data provided by all our contributors.
PRESENT RESOURCES
The contents of this Genealogical Database represents the accumulation of MILLIONS of hours of research, collected from THOUSANDS of different sources, by HUNDREDS of dedicated genealogists. You are the fortunate recipient, at home and for free, of material that has never before been available on the Web.
The principal resource is a PEDIGREE DATABASE, containing information on thousands of Longford families. Different from the static pages of a normal website, this dynamic Database is up-dated WEEKLY, and gives visitors the opportunity to watch their family grow, as new information is incorporated from contributors around the world.
Complementing this are the ARCHIVE DATABASES, containing important references for Longford genealogists, as well as a huge volume of unique genealogical information relating to Co. Longford and Irish families in general, contained in such valuable sources as Memorial Inscriptions, Wills, Deeds, and Newspaper Extractions.
Also included is a useful BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE of the County Officials, Clergy, Militia and Yeomanry of Co. Longford up to the last century, with details of their positions and biographical notes on their lives.
Likewise, we recommend that you register the names of the families you are researching in the FAMILY FORUM DATABASE, which will allow other researchers to know of your interests, and make contact with you directly.
FUTURE RESOURCES
Our principal resource for the future we hope is
!! YOURSELF !!
The tragic loss of records in the fire that destroyed the Irish Public Record Office in 1922, means that many descendants today may well be the custodians to genealogical information that is now unique, and nearly impossible to recover from the surviving records. Anyone who believes that the history of their family can only be of interest to its own members, should never forget that every spouse who married into their family, was also the scion of another family, and therefore of great interest to other researchers. Who knows if the information you hold, may perhaps provide the key another researcher has spent a lieftime searching for, just as they too may be able to provide you that vital clue missing from your own records. However, only if we all share information, can we all benefit.
So if you are the fortunate recipient of records handed down by your forebears, be thankful that THEY took the time and interest to provide YOU with their history, and emulate their example. If you are not such a fortunate recipient, don't perpetuate their error, leave your descendants a record for which they will be grateful that YOU took the time and interest to provide THEM. Remember the truth that at best, only one genealogist is born to a family each century. The labour of a lifetime, through the neglect and indifference of others, can be all too easily lost when we too pass on. Therefore, the survival of your records is best assured by publicizing and sharing them as widely as possible, so that future generations can re-discover them, and bless you for your foresight.
Please also consider further advantages of contributing to LONGFORD ANCESTRY :-
(1) SHARE your records, and everyone avoids the wasteful duplication of time and expense spent on research ;
(2) STIMULATE research into your own family, by contributiing information that will also help others ; and
(3) SERVE the interests of both your family and community, by ensuring the diffusion and survival of your records.