Map from World Fact Book: Ireland
Your Guide to Researching Irish Ancestors
During the Irish Civil War in 1922 many -- but by no means all-- records were destroyed.
The earliest surviving census is 1901.
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Map from World Fact Book: Ireland |
Your Guide to Researching Irish AncestorsDuring the Irish Civil War in 1922 many -- but by no means all-- records were destroyed. The earliest surviving census is 1901.
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Books, articles, CD's, Tapes etc. |
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Books Baxter. In Search of Your British & Irish Roots. A Complete Guide to Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Ancestors. (find in a library) Grenham. Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, the Complete Guide 2000 (2nd. ed) (find in a library) IRISH AND SCOTCH-IRISH Ancestral Research. In Two Volumes How to Search for Your Irish Roots (note this book is delivered via e-mail; to get a paper version, you must print it out and note also it is only 34 pages. I've not seen it, so don't know how good it is ) Ryan. Irish Records: Sources for Irish History. 1997 Ryan. Irish Church Records Ouimette. Finding Your Irish Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide. Irish Christian Names An A-Z of First Names (find in a library) Matheson. Varieties and Synonyms of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland (find in a library) Maps Mitchell. A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland. 2nd ed. 2002 |
Bookmark or print out these Family History Library research guides. Some are available in .pdf (click icon, upper right corner).
Search the LDS Catalog to find out what resources are available for Ireland . Click the "View Related Places" button, upper right for links to the county level resources. And once you have explored what is available for a given county, click "View Related Places" , upper right, to see the towns for which records are available. Click those links to find material specific to the towns you are researching. Explore these two World GenWeb sites: Dublin National Archives of Ireland National Library of Ireland Representative Church Body Library Belfast Public Records Office of Northern Ireland The Irish Family History Foundation coordinates and presents the indexing of county records. Visit the website of the Irish Genealogical Society International -- explore especially the links under the "Research" tab. Fianna: Guide to Irish Genealogy offers over 500 web pages of aids and guides to Irish genealogy. With so much to view, you might want to view the site map, which is offered both in outline format and table format. Note that the site map iteself takes 5 pages!
Once you know the name of the town, search the IreAtlas Townland Database to learn the parish, barony, PLU and province in which the town is located. Newspapers You will want to search the Database for Irish Immigrants Published in the Boston Pilot., which covers queries to a "Missing Friends" column that ran between the years 1831 and October, 1921. (This database does not include all years; check the dropdown to see which years have been indexed.) The full database of all years can be searched at the $ New England Historic Genealogical Society's website. $ People from all over the U.S. sent queries in the hopes of locating missing relatives and friends. Coverage is spotty, but any "find" in these transcribed newspaper notices at Ireland Old News will be appreciated. The Belfast Newsletter Index 1737-1800 is a searchable, online database of information from this old Irish newspaper. Before searching this database, you will want to take the time to read their tips on undertstanding the data contained there.
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