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A Transcription and Complete Index of the Tithe Applotment Books of County Longford, Ireland (1823 - 1835) by Guy A. Rymsza

This groundbreaking research analyzes the data from a taxation record and serves as a major s bstitute for the Irish census returns from this period, which have been largely destroyed for all of Ireland in the bombing of the Public records Office in Dublin in 1922. Over one million Irish who fled the Great Famine (1845 - 1850) came to the U.S., not to mention those who embarked to Canada, Australia, other parts of Great Britain, and even Argentina.If the US immigrants from Longford alone and their children each bore only two children (which is probably conservative for the Irish!), then easily 4,000,000 Americans living today have an ancestor from County Longford. Anyone searching for Famine-era ancestors will benefit from consulting this work.

This publication consisting of 450 pages, has been divided into three sections for easy reference.

Part 1: Full Name Index of over 12,6000 male and female tithe payers, with landlords, lessors, and tenants. Entries include each person's surname and given name, along with their civil parish and townland location.

Part 2: Recapitulation of the Tithe Payer Records arranges alphabetically by townland. Occupants of over 930 townlands, or neighbourhood-like land divisions, are presented in the same order as the original records. Standardized names of townlands, appearing later in Griffith's Primary Valuation, are cross-referenced with their local names, used in the Tithe Books, which have been obscured over centuries. As an index of these townlands, the Recapitulation make the final section of Civil Parish Maps navigable.

Part 3: Civil Parish Maps of townlands, with three maps of County Longford's major land divisions. Detailed drawings in an exclusive format supply the geographic necessary to analyse, hypothesize, and draw conclusions about the identities of the tithe payers. Possible locations are presented for townlands that have for decades been unassociated with geographic locations. Their research is based on correlation studies between entries in the Tithe Applotment Survey and Griffith's Primary Valuation, and multiple map sources.

About the author: Guy A. Rymsza holds his degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. A computer process engineer at a state-of-the-art Indiana cold rolled steel mill, Guy now offers his years of experience in data manipulation, data integrity management, and statistical process control methods to the genealogical research community. He is a member of The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) and the Irish Genealogical Society International (IGSI) and the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS).In >County Longford Residents Prior to the Famine, he has confronted the puzzle of the Tithe Applotment Survey's taxation records, one that few have attempted to tackle and none have addressed on this level of detail, and resolved it; and he just may lead you to your Irish ancestors.