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Navigating your Irish Genealogical Legacy Online
Lorna MoloneyUCC – Summer School Co-Ordinator
Ancestral Connections: Names, Places & Spaces
085-8721184
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Researching Irish Ancestry Online
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After this lesson
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Advantages of irishgenealogy.ie
• Free• 3 Million church records prior to 1900• Areas covered: • Carlow (Anglican) • Cork and Ross (Catholic) excludes Cork city,
Dublin City, (Anglican, Catholic and some presbyterian)
• Kerry, (Anglican and Catholic
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New developments
• While irishgenealogy.ie is currently stalled, a partner, the Representative Church Body Library is continuing to upload Anglican records transcriptions in the interim via its site at http://ireland.anglican.org/about/151
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The National Archives of Ireland
• www.nationalarchives.ie– Includes a new catalogue– Dedicated online genealogy records portal at – www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie• Holds census records 1901 & 1911• Tithe Applotment books 1823-1837• Soldiers Wills from 1914-1917
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Coming soon to National Archives
• Digitised Probate Calendars from 1858-1922• Surviving census fragments 1821-1851• Valuation Office House and Field Books 1848-
1860• Census Search Forms for 1841 and 1851
census (used for pension applications)
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Military Archives
• www.militaryarchives.ie– Created by the Department of Defence– Maps, Plans and Drawings Collections of Military
Barracks in Ireland– Online Military Archives Image Identification
Project– Bureau of Military History Witness statements– Military census from 1922
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Military Archives developments
• Preparing to release its Military Service Pensions Archive for Soldiers who servied in the army (including those who served in the original IRA) as well as various medal lists
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Ordnance Survey
• Northern Irish Ordnance Survey Maps are freely available online at https://maps.osni.gov.uk/mapconsolehistoricalmaps.aspx– Different historical maps of Ulster from various
different times namely 1820-1851. 1851- 1883. 1883-1920, 1920-1951 and 1951 to latestg.
Separate resource for Ireland at www.osi.ie – essential for locating townlands in the south
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Irish Genealogy Toolkit
• www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com – Provision of many useful resources, articles and
sources such as Old Age Pension record applications
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JSTOR Early Journals
• JSTOR Early Journals Portals at www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch
• Articles from 200 journals published prior to 1923 in the US and before1870 elsewhere in the world.– The Belfast Monthly Magazine (1808-1814)– Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological
Society (1849-1853)– Early articles are free to view
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Volunteer Created Projects
• www.billmacafee.com relevant for ancestry in counties Londonderry and parts of Antrim.– Transcription of 1831 census for County
Londonderry– Church and agricultural censuses,– Townland valuations
Coming soon The Great Parchment Book of 1639- survey of all Ulster-based estates
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Burials
• Burial databases- growth area for Irish research
• www.irishgraveyards.ie growing free to access database of burials
• www.discovereverafter.com• www.igp-web.com/igpparchives
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Newpapers
• www.irishnewsarchive.com • Joseph McGarrity Newspapers collections
from Villanova University at http://tinyurl.com/mcgarritynewpapers digitised images of many rare 19th century Irish newspapers for FREE
• John Grenhams’ www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/ Browse section