Ireland: County Down: Newry Area Project Description: Difference between revisions

'''History of Newry Families, prior to 1910 by Phillip Crossle'''<br>Microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Belfast Record Office in 1961<br>The explanation that follows will tell you more about this collection. Some important information about the data that was extracted from these records and the Community Tree we created from it will follow as well.  

'''Extraction and Data challenges – locality strings'''<br>When the data was extracted from the “Crossle Collection” the FamilySearch extraction template that was available and used was for vital records. This template allowed for the extraction of names and dates but did not provide a place to enter the locality string for the event. The locality string was entered later in the “back end” processes because all of the data was from the same film which was for a specific locality. Therefore all of the events extracted from this collection received the locality string of Newry, Down, Ireland. However, unlike vital records, the Crossle Collection gave reference to events in many localities which could not be recorded correctly in the template that was used. Since most of the events took place in Newry we have listed all of the events as having occurred at “probably Newry, Down, Ireland”. Each record, or someone they are connected to, will have in their source a reference to the microfilm and page that the data came from within the Crossle Collection. Please review the films for the person you are interested in to verify the locality strings, or to find other places where the event may have taken place. For many people when you review the films, you will also find more information about them that could not be extracted as part of this project. These films are currently available through the branch libraries called Family History Centers. In the future the images of these films will be available on the Internet, when that happens an effort will be made to link these records to those images for easy access. However, for the present the best access is to use the records in Ireland, or on film through a Family History Center. Use the links below to find a Family History Center near you and to go directly to the FamilySearch Catalog listing for this collection.  

<br>'''Newry Community Tree Process'''<br>We have taken the data that was extracted from the Crossle Collection and converted it to lineage linked entries. Then we used computerized record linkage technology to merge duplicate records which allowed us to create families and extended lineages for many people in the database. The largest tree contains 685 people in one large inter-connected Community Tree. There are 4 other trees that have more than 100 people in them, and 14 more that have between 50-100 people in them. There are other smaller trees in the final database as well. All of this data can be easily searched, printed, or downloaded from the Community Trees Website, the link is given below.  

Normally we only include the lineage linked family data on the Community Trees Website, but the data from the Crossle Collection contained just over 33,000 entries that had no family data connected to them. To make these records more accessible and the “index” to the Crossle Collection more complete, we have included these unlinked entries in the Community Tree for the Newry area. These records were added to the lineage linked collection after all of the merging was done. The lineage linked collection contained data on about 41,000 individuals and 15,000 marriages. After we added the unlinked records the collection now has reference to about 74,000 people that are listed in the Crossle Collection. Use the link below to get to this Community Tree. You can scroll down through the name list and then click on an individual to see his record, or you can use the search button at the top of the screen to search for specific individuals or couples that you hope are listed within this collection. Using the Search from the Home page will allow you to search across all of the Community Trees that are currently published by FamilySearch.  

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