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Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Online indexes include: geographical, prominent persons, Presbyterian and Church of Ireland indexes. There is also an index to the Freeholders’ Records.
National Library of Ireland. with information for family history researchers including an online list of Catholic parish registers held. There is also access to the library catalogue, photographic, newspaper and manuscript databases.
The General Register Office (Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora). This site offers information on birth, death and marriage records in the Republic of Ireland plus details on the location of church records.
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. This site offers information for the online ordering of births, death and marriage certificates for Northern Ireland.
Ireland Births, Deaths & Marriages Exchange. This site provides a free resource for sharing details contained on birth or baptismal, death and marriage certificates registered in Ireland.
Genfindit Vital Records Ordering Service for Irish photocopies or certificates 1864-1921 (Protestant marriages from 1845) and for 1922-1999 for the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland.
History from Headstones, by the Ulster Historical Foundation, lists pre-1900 gravestone inscriptions from over 1,200 graveyards around Ulster. See Resources and Databases for details.
Irish Index. This site offers access to an index of over 15,000 birth, marriage and death announcements appearing in leading Irish newspapers (1817-1823). A search returns year of publication, surname, place, county and country. A transcript of the entry is available for a fee.
GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy. This extensive gateway site has an alphabetical list of sites relating to all aspects of Irish research. A must to visit.
Cyndi’s List for Ireland and Northern Ireland with over 1500 indexed links.
Directory of Irish Genealogy. A gateway site for researching your Irish family history. This site includes a Beginner’s Guide.
The Irish Ancestral Research Association (USA). A site for those interested in Irish genealogical and historical research which features an extensive list of Irish resources indexed by county.
Burke’s Landed Gentry Ireland Online. records significant non-titled land owners and their family histories. This collection is available online to subscribers but some free searches are available.
Views of the Famine by Steve Taylor. A selection of contemporary reports and pictures from the Illustrated London News, Cork Examiner, The Pictorial Times and Punch. Also includes links.
All kinds of resources and links for the Genealogists. It’s an Australian Gateway Site for Tracing your Family History but a great resource for Genealogists everywhere.
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A collection specially chosen books from to aid you in your research into your family history.
The
Macmillan Atlas of Irish History
Families
of Co. Limerick, Ireland (Book of Irish Families Great & Small,
Vol 5)
The
Families of Co. Clare Ireland (The book of Irish families, great
& small)
The
Book of Irish Families, Great & Small (Third Edition, Expanded)
While we provide these links for research purposes we are in no way connected with any of the Websites listed.
Ireland
• www.irishorigins.com Including the definitive publication of Griffith’s Valuation.
• www.eneclann.ie A list of Eneclann’s CD-ROM titles, with detailed information about each.
U.S.
• www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration Lists immigration records compiled by the National Archives in Washington.
•www.ellisisland.org Lists immigrants processed through Ellis Island.
Australia
•www.nationalarchives.ie/ Transportation of convicts from Ireland after 1836, compiled by the National Archives of Ireland.
• www.records.nsw.gov.au For information about people who received assisted passage to Australia, see the NSW state archives Family History web site.
England, Scotland & Wales
Contains marriage records from the 16th to 19th Centuries, wills 18th & 19th Century, apprentice records 15th to 19th Centuries
• www.nationalarchives.gov.uk The 1901 Census for England and Wales on-line
• www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk Census returns and parish and civil registers for Scotland.
Other Genealogy Resources:
Find your Irish Ancestors in Online Marriage Records.
Government registration of births, marriages and deaths in Ireland
The General Register Office of Ireland has records of birth, marriage, and death occurring in all of Ireland from 1864 to December 31, 1921 and records from the Republic of Ireland (excluding the six north-eastern counties of Derry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, Fermanagh and Tyrone known as Northern Ireland) from January 1, 1922 on. The GRO also has records of non-Catholic marriages in Ireland from 1845.
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Irish genealogy requires at lot of time consuming research which can involves travel in order to access local parish records.
Irish genealogy is never easy, mainly because of the poor survival rate of many of the historic records. The destruction of the Custom House Public Records Office of Ireland in 1922, was of course the most famous archival disaster in Irish history.
Probably the best way to start your research, is to first talk to your oldest living relatives first.
Records destroyed include the Census of Ireland returns, between 1821 and 1851; more than half of all parish registers of the Anglican Church of Ireland which were deposited there after 1869; the majority of wills and testamentary records proved in Ireland to that date. Other records destroyed included the pre-1900 records of local government; pre-1900 legal records from the Irish courts; and the majority of all Irish export and trade records from the 18th Century onwards, transferred from the Customs House to the Public Records Office shortly before 1922.
For researchers, the problem of these earlier disasters is that the records were not comprehensively indexed, and so we do not know exactly what was lost - broadly speaking we know that the main classes of records stored there were the legal, financial and administrative records of the 13th to the 17th Centuries, marking the transition from the medieval Irish Lordship to the Irish Kingdom.
The key to all successful research is to first gather as much information as possible on your immigrant ancestor(s), to create a ‘profile’ of the individual or family that left Ireland. Draw up a search strategy to keep your research focused, and remember to keep full notes of all your sources. At the outset of your search the main information you want to establish are names, places and dates of key events in the lives of your emigrant ancestors from Ireland.
Probably the best way to proceed, is to first talk to your oldest living relatives - almost everyone can spontaneously ‘take their family back’ two generations on both sides, and will even know both grandmothers’ maiden names. Family photographs are a great way to start conversations on family history, and to ‘unlock’ older people’s memories of the past. You should also examine any surviving family documents - ranging from civil records of births, marriages and deaths, to deeds of property, memorial cards, letters, or a family bible, etc.
To complete the profile, you should also research official records in your own country, relevant to your immigrant ancestors. The most useful sources are census records; civil and church records of marriage or death for all your family that were born in Ireland; and newspaper obituaries and gravestone inscriptions for all family members born in Ireland.
The list of links on the left of this page should be enough to get you started and give you some idea where to start but we also have two more pages of further information. The Ancestry page contains links to several important databases and the history page also contains more links and information. Our book store contains a selection of books genealogy and Irish history; you can find some listed on this page.
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Phonebooks Online:
When all else fails you can always try making a few phone calls so here are some links to search online phone directories.
Online directory of Irish business.
Main residential phone directory
Ireland’s email search engine. Search for e-mail addresses of people or companies in Ireland by first name, surname, or organization.
Registration service dedicated to putting old school friends back in touch.
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