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Send us your family tree

If your surname is one of the group of Ó Maelearcaidh clan names you can assist us tremendously by forwarding us a copy of your own family tree. The benefit of this to us is that it will enable us to differentiate between your family members and other clan members with identical Christian names.

In the past confusion over surnames in the same location led to the extensive use of local nicknames to identify individual families, without which it would have been very difficult to establish which Thomas, Patrick or Mary Mullarkey a person was referring to. Hence the writers family were separately identified as the Tom Mór's. In the absence of such information, the evidence of living family members becomes more important to clarify each family member's correct relationship in the family.

Therefore, it is important in preparing your own family tree that the information you include is as full and accurate as possible. Hence before you draw up the tree itself you should first record the following details for each family member, giving each family member a separate record number:-

  • Full name of each person including all those embarrassing extra Christian names and Confirmation names that many people often prefer to forget. At least give the names as full as possible.
  • Dates of birth, death and marriage where relevant. If you are unable to find the exact dates then it is acceptable to give an approximate date so long as you clearly state "about, approximately or circa" and then give your approximate date.
  • Places of birth, death or marriage, with as much detail of the place as possible. For places in Ireland, one ideally needs to give the townland. Elsewhere try to give the actual address.

If the clan members are nolonger living in Ireland, then to link them up to records in Ireland can be near impossible without plenty of information.

Hence for overseas clan the following information should be sought:-

  • Names of emigrants.
  • Date of arrival in the new country. Or best estimate clearly stating that it is an estimate.
  • Port of arrival, if known.
  • Port of departure, if known.
  • Townland or village of birth of the emigrant from Ireland.

Armed with all the data you should then prepare a family tree starting with your grandchildrens' generation or your childrens'/nephews' generation if that is the first generation and then progressively linking each subsequent generation. It sounds daunting but if you restrict it to just your Mullarkey relatives and their spouses it is manageable with a little patience.

Give each individual in the tree a number. This number you then cross reference to that persons data (dates, places and events) mentioned above, which you show on a separate piece of paper. In this way the tree diagram is a manageable size and the information recorded separately about each person can readily be cross-referenced to them.

You should check you data and tree for errors and finally when you are happy that it is as complete as possible, then you can either post a copy to us or fax it to us. If you wish you can also email the data to us. To email the tree you will need to scan it first and then zip the file, before sending it to us as an attachment.


In order to comply with the provisions of the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998 in the United Kingdom, no details pertaining to any living person in this database will be released by the Maintainer of this database to any other party. Data held on living individuals is only held as part of the personal genealogical hobby of the Maintainer of the database. Only Genealogical information pre 1900 may be released to third parties at the discretion of the Maintainer of the database.

Donations

Volunteers who sift through indexes of various record offices provide their time free, but even with this terrific resource there is usually no substitute for purchasing original records. The costs of acquiring records such as birth, death and marriage certificates, copies of wills, etc. and travel to the various record repositories is an ever increasing strain on Clan resources.

Endevouring to finance the latest Clan project causes delay in progressing with the Foundation's objectives.

It is unfortunate that finance should need to be mentioned, however progress is connected to funding. In England and Wales for example one full certificate costs £9 (US$12) so that it would only take 100 certificates to reach £900 (US$1,200). To obtain copies of all English and Welsh records back to 1837 may involve acquisition of some 6,000 records. This would cost an estimated £54,000 (US$72,000) and provide just 10% of our clan records to 1837. There are moves afoot in Britain to make older records available at a lower cost, however the costs above illustrate the level of challenge.

One major way that you can therefore assist is by making a gift to enable us to continue to progress forward.

If you are willing to provide financial help you should read the terms for assisting us set out below first.


Terms for providing us with assistance


1. You can be assured that nobody other than the Maintainer of the database of the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation will have access to the personal data you provide.

2. Any family information you supply to the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation is for the use of the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation in furthering its objectives of researching the social history of the Ó Maelearcaidh clan, the origins of the Ó Maelearcaidh clan name, tanistry and the construction of a clan tree.

3. Family information which you supply to the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation is given on the understanding that any Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation publication, whether internet based, computer based or in print, will not refer to any clan members who are living without their consent.

4. With regard to family information you supply about deceased clan members, the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation will only refer to them in an aforesaid publication if they have been dead for over 100 years.

5. That no copyrights or other rights, with or without material value are retained by the supplier, or author of the family information or family tree supplied, whether the family information or family tree is supplied in electronic format, computer file or paper .

6. That the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation freely acquires the copyright of any family information and tree supplied to it .

7. That donations are freely given by donors and imply no ownership of rights to the Foundation's assets.

8. That all donations should be drawn in either US Dollars, Pounds Sterling or European Euro's.

9. That all donations should be drawn in favour of "Gerald Ó Maelearcaidh," being the maintainer of the database.

10. That any articles for inclusion in the clan newsletter, family trees provided, or correspondence with the Ó Maelearcaidh Clan Foundation should contain a correspondence or email address for our records.

11. That all donations or correspondence will be acknowledged in writing by the Foundation.

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