Aspects of Irish Family History - Breaking down brickwalls

Aspects of Irish Family History Seminar of Irish Genealogical Group of the Genealogy Society of Victoria - Breaking down Brick walls

A selection of resources (by no means limited) to help you break down your genealogy brick wall

Reading

Tracing your Irish Ancestors: the complete guide by John Grenham (2014)

Tracing your Irish Family history on the internet: a guide for family historians by ChrisPaton (2013)

See also Tracing your [County] Ancestors series, by various authors. (Flyleaf Press)

NextGen Genealogy: the DNA connection by David R. Dowell (2015)

Websites

Beginning your family history –Getting started advice from GSV

A Primer in Irish Genealogy by Sean J. Murphy

Irish Genealogy Toolkit

Cyndislist Ireland

Family Search Wiki Ireland Genealogy

Genuki Ireland

GenealogyLinks - Ireland

70 resources finding Irish ancestors

Irish Census Indexes and records (links)

Census Finder (links)

Ireland Census Search(FamilySearch)

National Archives of Ireland

Geneabloggers – resources for blogging your family history

Historical Maps (FamilySearch)

Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum  

PRONI Online exhibitions – North to SouthNorthern Ireland and the history of Australia

State Library of NSW: Shipboard: the 19thcentury emigrant experience (online exhibition)

Irish Lives remembered

Irish Roots

Australian Family History Connections

Catholic ParishRegisters

John Grenham

Irish Genealogy News

British Genes

Genealogy on Facebook (98 Facebook groups listed for Ireland)

Genetic Genealogy Links and Resources

Irish DNA AtlasProject

FamilySearch

Irish Anzacs Database

Earl Grey’s Famine Orphans

Clare-Australasia Emigrants Dataset

Irish Famine Memorial

Irish Place Names

Ireland Gen Web

British Newspapers Archive (Subscription or access via libraries)

Irish News Archive (Subscription or access via National Library of Australia)

Find My Past (subscription or access via libraries)

Eneclann (professional genealogists)

From Ireland

Public Records Office Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Catholic Parish Registers

Trove

See also Researching your Irish Ancestry guide at Yarra Plenty Regional Library

5 March 2016