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Roscommon Cemeteries Mapviewer

Roscommon Cemeteries Mapviewer

Roscommon County Council gets a lot of queries from people trying to find out where their relatives are buried and asking for information on historic graveyards around the county. In response to this, we have developed an online Cemeteries Mapviewer which we hope will assist people.

John McManus US Passport

John McManus US Passport

This record, if from Kilgarve Townland in County Roscommon, at the Griffith Valuations and the census for the area and there are no McManuses living on the Townland.

Tennison Land Records 1836

Tennison Land Records 1836

Here is an article from our old journal about the Tennison land records and a Francis McManus from a Townland called Killgarfein was located, this maybe Kilgarve Townland.

Maguires, Descedants of Magnus

Maguires, Descedants of Magnus

Maguires, One of the two principal septs of the name in Ireland

Haplogroup R-FT194071 Arigna

Haplogroup R-FT194071 Arigna

Family Tree DNA has introduced a new “Beta” webpage to view your Haplogroup in a new format.

Albert Perry

Albert Perry

You (R-FT194071) and Albert Perry (A-L1100) share a common paternal line ancestor (A-PR2921) who lived around 232,000 BCE (234,000 years ago).

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

You (R-FT194071) and Charles Darwin (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).

Clan Campbell

Clan Campbell

You (R-FT194071) and Clan Campbell (R-FGC10125) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-Z39589) who lived around 1700 BCE (3,700 years ago).

Copernicus

Copernicus

You (R-FT194071) and Copernicus (R-P310) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-P310) who lived around 2900 BCE (4,900 years ago).

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

You (R-FT194071) and Daniel Boone (R-FT385804) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-DF23) who lived around 1400 BCE (3,400 years ago).

Francis Crick

Francis Crick

You (R-FT194071) and Francis Crick (R-M269) share a common paternal line ancestor (R-M269) who lived around 3900 BCE (6,000 years ago).