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Dome Shadow Press offers a highly acclaimed reference work that belongs in every Irish genealogy collection
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County Longford Residents Prior to the Famine: 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
substitute 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 U.S.
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.
“… an invaluable resource for people whose ancestors originated in County Longford.
Since extended Irish families often lived in close proximity with one another, the
recapitulation by townlands is especially useful … Rymsza goes one step further by
providing townland maps for each civil parish. This book has it all!”
— Judith Eccles Wight, AG, CGRS, specialist in Irish genealogy, Sandy, Utah
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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.
Photo by Joyce L. Brown-Walker
Copyright 2008 by Dome Shadow Press
... bringing you the first comprehensive
analysis and index of the
Tithe Applotment Books in Ireland,
complete with maps
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"People will not look
forward to posterity,
who never look
backward to their
ancestors."
-- Edmund Burke,
Irish-born Whig
politician and
man of letters
