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DNA
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Submission of a DRISCOLL DNA sample qualifies as a project participant. Contribute to our General Fund enough to buy one kit. This fund is used to purchase kits for non-genealogically oriented DRISCOLL whose lineage is of interest to the group as a whole because they come from a historically interesting family key to our origins. |
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Memorial Inscriptions
Finish the work outlined in our gravestone table qualifies you as a project participant.
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Parish Records
None of the films we need appear to be available in libraries outside Ireland. If you could discover some source to the contrary that in itself would be a valuable contribution. Anyone bringing back data from Ireland or sharing records delivered by a hired genealogist qualifies as a project participant.
- Catholic
- National Library of Ireland Films - see film table.
- Reconcile extractions from round one. This involves assignment of sort names and places sorting the data into families to resolve unrecognizable names, places and errors in interpreting the handwriting.
- Church of Ireland
- National Archive Films as listed in Tithe Table
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Passport Applications
Preparation of an index to Driscoll applicants 1795-1905 qualifies you as a project participant. LDS Films [Note: these might be the source of the data recently added to Ancestry.com]
National Archives and Records Administration Microfilm ID Title M1834 Emergency Passport Applications (Passports Issued Abroad), 1877-1907 M1848 Index To Passport Applications, 1850-52, 1860-80, 1881, 1906-23 M1372 Passport Applications, 1795-1905. M1490 Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925 M1371 Registers and Indexes for Passport Applications, 1810-1906.
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The O'Driscoll Title
According to the recent book by Éamon Lankford, O Driscolls Past and Present," a central and tantalizing mystery for present day O Driscolls is who should be considered 'The O Driscoll', the hereditary chieftain of the clan. The purpose of this project is to research the genelogy of some of the lineages which have made claim to the title. The goal of this project is to find a living male heir in each of the candidate lines and invite that individual to join our DNA project.
- Alexander O Driscoll m. Mary O Sullivan
- 1824/11/22, baptism Caheragh; Muss & Jane, Father: Moses or Alex DRISCOLL; Mother: Magt OSULLIVAN, Mt Musick
- Commissioner, Tithe Applotment 1828 for Caheragh
- J.P., Skibbereen 1843; aka Sandy Tim of Norton Cottage, Skibbereen
- Listed in Landowners in Ireland 1876, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore Md., 1998
- son Cornelius (Mt. Music O Driscoll)
- Note: townland of Mountmusic is in civil and RC parish of Kilmichael, PLU of Dunmanway
- grandson Tim the Gauger
- His daughter marries a Mr. FREKE and resides Baltimore
- Candidates from Civil Registration of marriages
- 1846 DRISCOLL Timothy Margaret COTTER Kilmichael Parish Dunmanway v5 p599
- Candidates from Civil Registration of births - Timothy
son of Cornelius O'DRISCOLL and ...
- Margaret MAHONY 21 Feb 1868 Ballyneen, Ballymoney, PLU of Dunmanway
- Ellen DONOVAN 28 Dec 1868 Union Hall, Myross, PLU of Skibbereen
- Jane TAYLOR 1 Apr 1872 Murragh, Murragh, PLU of Bandon
- daughter Kate married Herbert Baldwin 1845 Tues. 25th Nov. at Skibberean by Rev Fitzpatrick Herbert [Baldwin Newspaper Extracts]
- William Henry O'Driscoll, b. 1803, Stoke, Plymouth
- Florence Driscoll baptized 9 Dec 1836, Father Cornelius Driscoll,
Mother Mary Browne, Sponsors Michael Browne and Margaret Driscoll
- Pick up the trail at the 1930 census with Red Con of Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio
- O'Driscoll of Charleston, SC
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Tithe Applotments
All data available on LDS Film has been extracted and is presented here. However, the parishes of Dunbulloge and St Anne's Shandon (Entries 21-51) are not on LDS Film and must be looked up in the original books or alternative filmings held in Ireland. Anyone who can deliver this data qualifies as a project participant.
Also according to the householder's index there should be Driscolls in the following parishes but we could not find them: Clonpriest, Inch, Kilcaskan, Kilmichael (that part in the barony of East Carberry W.D), Kilmeen, Kilroan (barony of Courceys), Murragh, St Michael's. These are all on LDS Film and require a careful reexamination
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Wills
Extend the work of Michael CRONIN and Sharon MARTIN adding wills in the years 1874-1920 from LDS Films 100977-101004. Extraction of 10 years of data qualifies you as a project participant.
- Films completed to date
- 100970-100976, 1861-1873
- 100997, 1899-1900