2025 July

31 July 2025:- Total 53,357 including living. Yet more marriages from Tinriland, Carlow.  Some unravelling as Dowling siblings marry Norton siblings... nice.

30 July 2025:- Total 53,330 including living. Even more marriages from Tinriland, Carlow.  I will complete all Dowling's in the Tinriland parish records.

29 July 2025:- Total 53,307 including living. Marriages from Tinriland, Carlow.

27 July 2025:- Total 53,282 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.  Still on Tinriland in Carlow and found a marriage I was looking for but will carry on and do some more parish records.

26 July 2025:- Total 53,266 including living.  Yet more Tinriland Carlow baptisms... adding children to couples is good work to produce a better picture of just how many families are in the area and then... this aids a hypothesis (in the absence of clear evidence) of which family some people come from.

25 July 2025:- Total 53,245 including living.  Even more Tinriland parish records from the start  now and let's just see how many I can get in before the next query.  There Is a good likelihood of connections and merges here I think.  Painted two fence panels and did some other stuff.  Busy, busy.

24 July 2025:- Total 53,204 including living.  A few more parish records.  I may aim for all Tinriland, Carlow parish records for Dowlings.  Also gardening and decorating.

23 July 2025:- Total 53,193 including living. A few Carlow parish records added in the hunt for a link for several branches.

22 July 2025:- Total 53,183 including living.  Visited Ramsgate my home town.  Very run down compared to when I grew up there.  No longer an attractive place to live.

21 July 2025:- Total 53,183 including living. No change in numbers as today I merged/joined one family on to this Carlow line, and I take time over merging.  Also added my transcription of a Will which brought the sisters together into the family as they had witnessed the Will.

20 July 2025:- Total 53,183 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  Mostly sources for existing people today, for Carlow, with a good bit of hunting and not finding (genealogy researchers ought to have a special word for that activity as we do it a lot).

19 July 2025:- Total 53,178 including living.  Mostly sources for existing people today... with some garden shopping with my wife in torrential rain.

18 July 2025:- Total 53,176 including living.  Some refurbishing of a large County Carlow family's sources and, from a related correspondent, an excellent framework of their descendants.  More tidying to do and sources to be added here.

17 July 2025:- Total 53,142 including living. More from Surrey with more comprehensive Timelines... I'll see how this goes.  New correspondence in for an Irish line.

16 July 2025:- Total 53,133 including living. A great deal of 'squaring-up' in Hampshire as we have two William Dowlings of the same age from Dorking, Surrey, who both marry a Mary Ann.  Only one goes to the Royal Marines but which one?  Its all there!

15 July 2025:- Total 53,118 including living. Mostly sources for existing people in Hampshire, England and some Timeline entries that will automatically be added when I add a census. 

14 July 2025:- Total 53,113 including living.  Back on Joe Davis Dowling's trail with some censuses for Hampshire, England.  Adding a good number of 'Timeline' dates this time...  I think they add context to otherwise record dates.  This looks more interesting, to me, as for so many people I don't have their stories... if you have some do send them by e-mail.

13 July 2025:- Total 53,097including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  E-mails, sources for existing people and back to writing up a medal purchase for Joseph Davis Dowling who was killed in Action on HMS Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland, I had paused to deal with an e-mail query a while ago.

12 July 2025:- Total 53,095 including living.  Mostly more censuses for New York, trying to find another family route back to Kilkenny.  Some tidying up and e-mails... all in 34+ degrees Centigrade!  Phew.

11 July 2025:- Total 53,066 including living.  More New York census... looking for a pattern that may be found in Ireland.

10 July 2025:- Total 53,046 including living. Went through some Find a Grave entries for Rochester, Monroe today... there are three sisters that are being very economical with the truth on their ages!!!

9 July 2025:- Total 53,021 including living. Numbers went down today as I merged several people in Monroe County, New York... almost the whole family chopped and changed their names... they must have know a genealogist would come looking for them!  Added 3 censuses to existing people and some more Timelines for the US.

8 July 2025:- Total 53,030 including living.  More census work in Monroe County, New York after a clear email from a correspondent.  Hopefully back to Ireland.

7 July 2025:- Total 52,991 including living.  Mostly one family in Rochester, New York with some additional Timelines programmed in for some censuses.

6 July 2025:- Total 52,971 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  Just some tinkering around the edges on the Carlow to Oneida line today.  I am sure there are more records available relating to this line but they are not coming up on some logical searches, so I may now halt here until I hear more from the correspondent or serendipity turns up a record while I am looking for something else!  As if he was listening a new correspondent sends a message today... also for upstate New York.

5 July 2025:- Total 52,958 including living. Mostly censuses for people who already exist in the study.  Some Ohio additions.  Also busy in garden on the only cool day for weeks.

4 July 2025:- Total 52,945 including living.  More census for Oneida, New York with a surprising merge on 3 people who I hadn't noticed a few days ago as the dates of birth were different in different records. 

3 July 2025:- Total 52,935 including living.  Added baptisms and marriage for Carlow ancestors of the Oneida Dowlings… I am satisfied that the sequence of births is far too coincidental, with added supposed origin being Carlow.

2 July 2025:- Total 52,927 including living.  More Find a Grave entries for Oneida, New York.  Also looking at multiple records in Carlow and I think I have found the sequence of baptisms matching the siblings in Oneida... its compelling and will probably be entered this week.  I fret a little over this as its not exactly explicit, but older records so seldom are - this is the argument I have (if only with myself) about using hypothetical connections that fit the available facts and then trying to disprove the hypothesis.

1 July 2025:- Total 52,910 including living. Monthly Double Back Up. Mostly censuses in New York and source entries for existing people.  Busy day and 34.7 Celsius - hottest July 1 on record here in UK.  I would rather do something to reduce global warming than not, even if its not man-made the effect will probably be beneficial - if I do nothing and it is a man-made disaster in the making then it might be irreversible… I'd rather not take the risk. 

30 June 2025:- Total 52,897 including living.  Considerable number of Find a Grave entries relating to the New York families.  Almost all with graves... I don't exclude those without but Find a Grave is a better source if the grave (or some other corroboration) is showing.