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

Irish Ancestry Seminar

IRISH ANCESTRY GROUP SEMINAR

 Sat 13^th April 2013

9.30am – 4pm

$65.00 including lunch, morning/afternoon tea

Celtic Club 316-320 Queen St Melbourne

 

~LESSER KNOWN RESOURCES

FOR IRISH RESEARCH~

9.30 am – 4.00 pm

Facilitator: Dr Val Noone

Speakers

Keynote speaker - Nick Reddan

Founder Registry of Deeds Index Project

Fellow Irish Genealogical Research Society

1)  The Registry of Deeds

2)  Irish newspaper resources in the NLA

             

3)  Jenny Harkness

LDS researcher and historian

President VAFHO

Finding your way around the new Family  Search site

             

4)  Linley Hooper

Library Manager, Genealogical Society of    Victoria Inc

    Maps -  a neglected resource

             

5)  Beryl O’Gorman

                  Chairperson, Irish Ancestry Group of the GSV

    Lesser known but useful websites

             

Cost: $65.00 includes lunch, morning & afternoon tea

BOOKINGS AT GSV BOOKSHOP FROM JANUARY 14

Tel: (03)9662 4455    Fax(03)9663 0841  

E-mail: gsv@gsv.org.au

The Gathering Ireland: 2013

Throughout 2013, Ireland will open its arms to hundreds of thousands of friends and family from all over the world, calling them home to gatherings in villages, towns and cities.  There will be clan gatherings, festivals, special sporting events, music and concerts taking place all across the country, all year long. Communities throughout Ireland will showcase and share the very best of Irish culture, tradition, business, sport, fighting spirit and the uniquely Irish sense of fun.

Over 70 million people worldwide claim Irish ancestry. The Gathering Ireland 2013 provides the perfect excuse to reach out to those who have moved away, their relatives, friends and descendants, and invite them home.

The Gathering is the people’s party. It will kick off in spectacular style at the New Year’s Eve Festival in Dublin and will be celebrated through gatherings of the people and Ireland’s major festivals during 2013.

For more information visit: The Gathering Ireland

1901 Ireland Census

The 1901 census of Ireland (index and images) from the National Archives Ireland has been made available for free.

Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers new on Ancestry

A fantastically rich collection of Irish records entitled the Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1845 – 1847 is now available on Ancestry. These 7,000 original letters were written by Irish citizens who were requesting help during the Great Famine in the mid 19th century. Some are quite harrowing accounts of life during the Famine, which were a stark reminder of just how brutal conditions were at that time.

Between 1845 and 1852, people in Ireland were literally starving to death as result of a disease that killed their potato crops – the staple food for Ireland’s poorest who constituted a third of the population! Overall it’s estimated that a staggering million Irish citizens died as a result of the Famine.

Many of the letters were written by members of local relief committees, the clergy and concerned citizens who didn’t know where else to turn. They were, in fact, pleas of help sent to a Relief Commission that was set up by the English Prime Minister Robert Peel in an attempt to help those worst affected. The majority of the letters refer to the counties of Cork, Galway, Clare, Mayo and Limerick, although these regions weren’t necessarily the worst affected.

This is the first time the Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers have gone online so please take a look and uncover the unique stories found in this record collection.

Ancestry is accessible free on any PC via our website at all branch libraries.
Source: Ancestry Blog

Irish on the Internet

Join Beryl at Diamond Valley Library Wednesday October 14 as she presents some websites to assist researchers with their Irish research.

FHF – Irish History Foundation

Griffiths Valuations of Ireland

Ire-Atlas

1911 Census for Ireland

Irish Census Indexes and records online

PRONI Will Calandars

LDS Family Search Pilot Search

Pensar

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 topographical dictionary of Ireland

GENUKI Ireland

Irish Convicts to Irish to NSW 1791-1834

Irish Ancestors: Libraries & Archives in Ireland

Clare County Library

Waterford Ireland Library

Ireland Old News

The Workshouse

ROOTSWEB Mailing Lists

Roytal Dublin Fusiliers Association

Finding DEDs

Irish resources

In honour of St Patrick's Day, Family history researchers with Irish heritage may wish to devote some online research time by visiting the following websites:

Irish Family History Research - Trace Your Ancestors Online - 100's of genealogy resources
The Belfast Newsletter Index 1737-1800
UK Over 20,000 transcribed pages. The Belfast Newsletter, began publication in 1737. Almost every word on the pages is indexed for searching including personal names, place names, advertisements, etc.

Family Search record search - pilot site
Includes Ireland 1845 - 1921 and Republic of Ireland 1922 - 1958 and others. Check "view all collections". Constantly updated. Includes UK 1841 and 1861 census

Ireland - Australia transportation database
Irish convicts via the National Archives of Ireland. Search results will show name, when and where triede, sentence and crime and the original docmentation reference.

Ireland Genealogy Links

The Origins Network
Genealogy Research online specializing in British and Irish research

Ireland's History in Maps (1841 AD)
Article. Famine years, populations figures, includes links, good background reading

Griffiths Primary Valuation of Ireland, explanation
Article

GENUKI UK & Ireland Genealogy

Ask about Ireland

Ancestry also includes a number of databases for Ireland. See their blog posting

Recommended Reading : Tracing your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham

Netting your Irish Ancestors

Recently Beryl O'Gorman from the Irish Ancestry Group of the Genealogical Society of Victoria spoke to a group of family history researchers at Diamond Valley Library.

She highlighted, among others the following websites to assist you in your Irish family history research:
EPPI – Ehnanced Parliamentary papers for Ireland

Failte Romhat

History from headstones: Irish Gravestones

Irish census indexes and records online

Irish convicts transported to Australia

Leitrim-Roscommon site

Ireland census to come online

The National Archives of Ireland has arranged for the digitisation, indexing andcontextualisation of its most popular records, the census records for 1901 and 1911. The resulting website will contain images of the forms for each household and institution, which will be indexed by name (all names), townland/street, age and sex.

There will also be illustrated information on what life was like in Ireland in the early days of the last century. The site will be free to access, with no charge to use the indexes or view the images.

The first phase of the project, Dublin City and County 1911, is to be launched in Autumn 2007.
See: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/contactus/census.html

Beginning Irish Family History

Monthly Family History Fest sessions continue at Diamond Valley Library. On Wednesday June 6 guest presenters Maureen Doyle and Pauline McIntrye from the Irish Ancestry Group of the Genealogical Society of Victoria will present an informative talk on Beginning Irish Family History. Please join us from 1.30 to 2.30 pm

Irish Starter Kits will be available for purchase.