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On this website you will find not only extracts of Births, Marriages, Deaths etc I have transcribed from various newspapers but also many news stories, book extracts, church records, records of deceased seamen, the names of over 25,000 Presbyterians who served during the Great War of 1914-1919 and more.
While in the News Extracts section the Birth, Marriage and Death transcriptions may be of the most immediate interest to those researching their family history there is a wealth of information contained in the general "clippings" which include court reports, inquests, subscriptions lists (some of which contain 100s of names) and many other items of general historic and social interest.
I hope that among the many pages of information contained on this site you may find something helpful or enlightening. If you do (and there have been many successes) why not drop me a line at eddiesextracts @ gmail.com. or leave a note in the guestbook.
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Spellings
When doing these transcriptions I have maintained the spelling of names as they were recorded in the original documents – in all their variations.
While today we would write "Mc" names etc with a small "c" it was not until the 1960s that this became the standard and prior to this they would be written with and apostrophe. So "McAuley" would have been "M'Auley" and "McNeill" would be "M'Neill".
Please keep this in mind when undertaking a search along with the many variations of how you can spell a name.
Acknowledgements
I would also like to thank the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland who allowed me access to their copies of The Witness and The Banner of Ulster to obtain those extracts.
And my heartfelt thanks to Alex Barber, David Cassells, Bob Cook, Ian Corry, Bill Nesbitt, Lynn Nunn for their support in the earliest days of the site and a special thanks to Mary Lennon and Bob Mitchell.
The site has also been helped with the additional transcriptions which have been added, so my thanks go to Brian Magaoidh who has transcribed the 'Missing Friends' extracts from the Belfast Weekly News; Andy Boyd for his transcriptions taken from the Registers of Deceased Seamen; and Cathy George for extracts from Movilla cemetery, Newtownards.