Tenison Groves index
Does anyone have experience with the Tenison Groves files on FS? There is an alphabetical index, cross-listed, that I have found before but cannot find it again two years later (I even screen-dumped one of the pages). I am sure that it was "hidden" in one of the microfilm files. I spent 3 hours today at my nearest access site and still couldn't find it. The documentation says that there is an index in there! It would be good if that file was labelled accordingly! I would appreciate any help. Roger
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Sorry, I have no previous experience with the Tenison Groves files, but they certainly sound very interesting, especially as they appear to be the best source of early probate records. Apparently they're in microfilm #258,471–#258,524. So are you saying you have looked in those films and you can not locate the index?
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions with these films? You might reach out to David Rencher who submitted the following info to FS Wiki about the files. His email is listed at the top of the article: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Out_of_the_Ashes_-_Irish_Genealogical_Collections#Tenison_Groves_Collection_.281863-1938.29
This also might be a question for a Library Look Up since they now offer that at the FH LIbrary: https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/family-history-library-records-look-up-service
Anyone else have any additional suggestions?
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Thanks, I will try David. I have looked at the microfilms at my nearest FamilySearch access point, the only way to do it. They are wonderful records (for selected names), but a lot of them are hand-written. A real mixture of sources. There are around 40 files with 600 double pages on some files. And with time limits and pressure on the computers, I have just looked "strategically" (at the start and end of the most obvious files), then just a random sampling every 50 or so pages....... If I could access from home, I would just go through one page at a time!
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Here is the link to the Tenison Groves collection in FamilySearch
Unfortunately they can only be seen in a family history centre and this service is suspended at present.
Sorry about that.
If you know what you want there is a new lookup service https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/library-lookup-service-fhl/
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You misunderstand my question. I am already accessing the microfilms at my nearest FamilySearch site. In the TG collection are many files of microfilms. These are easily found in the Library catalogue. On one of them, somewhere, is a cross-reference index for all the names that TG mentions in his documents. I came across it once before, but I cannot find it again. Unless I can find someone else who knows which file it is on, I will have to go through every file, page after page after page, on slow computers to which access is very limited (I have spent 3 hours doing this already). It could take weeks. Unfortunately, the catalogue does not mention in the file details which one of them has the index in it. They are incredibly valuable documents which have filled missing links in our research, but without the index it is a needle in a haystack.
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I'm not sure which one you want, but film 258520 (DGS 8081231) has an index to parish registers and 258521 (DGS 8081232) has what looks like a more general index. Hopefully that's what you are looking for.
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Thanks! I will have a look next time I get to our nearest Family Search access point. The index I am looking for is alphabetical by name (with cross-references to other names).
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