{"id":5425,"date":"2016-09-12T09:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:17:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T14:17:37","slug":"spacing-out-to-find-derrybeg-err-derry-beg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/12\/spacing-out-to-find-derrybeg-err-derry-beg\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Out to Find DerryBeg&#8230;err Derry Beg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/derrybeg2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5427 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/derrybeg2-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"derrybeg2\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/derrybeg2-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/derrybeg2-624x514.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/derrybeg2.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Irish civil records indicate that several members of my Neill family lived in Derry Beg in the north of Ireland in the 1850s-1880s. The handwriting in the records being used made it look like &#8220;Derrybeg&#8221; so I assumed it was one word. I had a difficult time finding it on a map in the appropriate place (parish of Drumachose) until I realized that it was Derry Beg&#8211;two words.<\/p>\n<p>There were several other places in Ireland named Derrybeg as well. I knew I they were the wrong ones because the county was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>There can easily be more than one place in a country with the same name and when searching for places, spaces matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish civil records indicate that several members of my Neill family lived in Derry Beg in the north of Ireland in the 1850s-1880s. The handwriting in the records being used made it look like &#8220;Derrybeg&#8221; so I assumed it was one word. I had a difficult time finding it on a map in the appropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}