Irish Ancestors

WendyMorris52

I recently managed to find a record of my Irish ancestors born in Scarva, County Down, N Ireland, great, great grandfather and great great grandmother born in early 1800's, and son born 1839. Next to their details on the Family Search website, are codes, eg 99C1-67P, MH93-ZXM. What do these codes mean and can I find out more about my family members using these codes? If so, how do I do this? Any suggestions most welcome.

OConnorAnne1

Hi Wendy

These are ID numbers used in Family Tree. This blog article explains how to use IDs to find people.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/familysearch-person-id-numbers

Both the IDs are for a John Graham born in 1839 but not in Northern Ireland. Can you provide more information on the names you are searching ?

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@WendyMorris52

Welcome to Irish Research and to FamilySearch.

"N Ireland" or Northern Ireland did not exist in the 1800s. The island of Ireland was all one country. Northern Ireland only came into existence after 1921.

Unfortunately, most Irish censuses for the 19th century were lost, except for a few fragments here and there. Civil registration of births and deaths began in 1864, while civil registration of non-Roman Catholic marriages began in 1845. Civil registration of Roman Catholic marriages began in 1864.

What that means - you will need to rely primarily on Church records to learn more about your family - baptism and marriage records. Land records such as Griffith's Valuation may also be useful.

A good place to start learning about Irish research is Claire Santry's Irish Genealogy Toolkit. Claire has links to all the best places to research - many free - and good basic instructions for researching Irish genealogy.

The two profiles you mentioned have little information attached. And, the only source attached to John Graham 99C1-67P is a Scottish record index. All the sources attached to John Graham MH93-ZXM are English.

There were many people of the same name, living about the same time. You'll want to be careful to find the profile for YOUR John Graham, from County Down, or create one for him if he is not already in the FamilySearch Family Tree.

Best of luck in the search. We're here to help any time you need us.

Hayter David

At the top of the group page there is a link "County Pages". Go to County Down and look through some of the links. Ros Davies page is about as good as it gets for an overall view of what's available. Also watch you dont cross a county boundary somewhere. Scarva is quite close to the edge of Down/Armagh .

Never really ever went to, or fished at Scarva, but Tandragee & Gilford had/have some good brown trout . A little useless information for you.