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Irish Genealogical Resources
- Irish Genealogy Toolkit
… this a website where “You’ll find all the information and contacts you need to help you discover your heritage in Ireland. Whether you’re just starting out on your family history search or you’ve already made some headway on your journey, Irish Genealogy Toolkit will lead you to a greater understanding of how your ancestors lived and where you come from…” - Resources for Irish Genealogy
… this is a list hosted on Geneanet.org‘s servers. Here is part of their introduction to the list:
“… Anyone with ancestors in the Emerald Isle has encountered the many challenges of Irish genealogy: the paucity of pre-Famine records, the wild variations in name spellings, the nearly unreadable parish registers, and particularly the disappeared censuses lost one hundred years ago prior to and at the time of the Record Treasury explosion and fire of 1922 (see our article about the recently launched Virtual Record Treasury for more information). How many of us have eagerly obtained a marriage or death certificate in the US or UK, Canada or Australia, and under “Place of Birth” just seen: “Ireland”?Don’t despair! Although research is roundabout due to the absence of censuses, there are substitutes, and complementary sources, and a number of recent initiatives that have been undertaken to make these sources readily available in the digital era. …”. Because of historical migration between Ireland and Scotland Geneanet’s Resources for Scottish Genealogy may also be of interest.
Irish Government Genealogy Websites
- National Library of Ireland – Family History Research Section
(providing information on getting started with research in Ireland) - National Library of Ireland – Sources Section
(providing information on the library’s Irish research collections in the form of over 180,000 catalogue records for Irish manuscripts, and for articles in Irish periodicals.) - National Archives in Dublin (NationalArvhives.ie – Genealogy)
(providing access to Census Records for 1901 and 1911, Census survivals for 1821-51, Census Search forms for 1841-51,the Tithe Applotment Books from 1823 to 1837, the Soldiers’ Wills from 1914 to 1917, and the Calendars of Wills from 1858 to 1922) - Ireland Reaching Out (XO) website
(a website specifically set up by the Republic of Ireland to connect local Irish volunteers with the descendants of
Irish Expatriots (Expats) seeking to find a link to the home of their Irish ancestors) - Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
(dedicated to preserving and making available Northern Ireland’s unique archival heritage and community memory - Northern Ireland’s GRONI website
(a website developed to facilitate access to historical
and archival records within Northern Ireland)
Other Irish Genealogical Websites
- John Grenham’s list of Irish genealogy websites
- Irish Language Dictionnary
- Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF) Website
(Official Website of Ireland’s County Genealogy Centres – IFHF – providing a centralized capability for searching for one’s ancestor in all Irish counties except for Carlow, Kerry and Cork South) - Ireland’s Genealogy Projects Website (IGP-Web.com)
(not-for-profit website providing access to many historical records, but limited in scope; of particular interest is the Co. Carlow portion of the website ) - LDS’s FamilySearch Website (FamilySearch.org) – Irish Records
(providing, among other things, transcripts of approx. 30 Roman Catholic parishes, mostly in Counties Kerry, Cork and Roscommon) - IrishGenealogy Website (IrishGenealogy.com)
(providing a centralized register of links to Irish records available online: Church Records, Census Records, Property Records – e.g. Griffiths & Tithe Applotments, Migration Records, Graveyards, Military And Police Records, Records of Irish Abroad, etc;
some records for Counties Cork and Kerry) - Fáilte Romhat Website (FailteRomhat.com)
(providing free-of-charge information extracted from various censuses, postal and commercial directories, cemeteries and newspapers in the form of online databases and transcribed documents; some records for County Cork ) - Ireland’s GenWeb Website – (IrelandGenWeb.com)
(providing links to known online genealogical resources within Ireland – part of the WorldGenWeb Project) - Ulster Historical Foundation
(a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping to helping the global diaspora gain a deeper understanding of the history of Ulster) - UlsterAncestry.com Website
(unsecured non-profit website; visit at own risk;
providing access to online information supporting ancestral research in Northern Ireland) - Documenting Ireland – Parliament, People and Migration Website (DIPPAM & EPPI)
(providing an online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland and its migration experience from the 18th to the late 20th century)
Doing a Quick Search for your Nolan Ancestor
- Familiarize yourself with Irish History using the history links found at this website
(to better understand historical documents it helps to have a rough notion of the history of places of interest) - Familiarize yourself with Irish Geography using the geography links found at this website
(learn more about Ireland’s religious and civil land divisions, down to the “townland” level, a townland being a parcel of land within a county not only with a given land measure but also with a name, such as Shangarry, Kilmaglush, etc.) - Search in the Family Stories knowledge base at the NolanFamilies.org archival website
(many stories from around the world are to be found there and the researcher may browse stories by geograpical area or do a general search” using one or more keywords) - Search in the Memorials knowledge base at the NolanFamilies.org archival website
(many tombstones in and around Co. Carlow are documented here;
the researcher may browse by cemetery and also do a general “search” using keywords) - Search in the Tithe Applotment Books (1823-1837)
(these books record land holdings and tithes payable by occupants) - Search in Griffith’s Valuation (1847-1863)
(these books record valuations for properties and occupants) - Search in the Irish Censuses (1901, 1911)
( looking at the image version (PDF file) of these censuses, may reveal additional valuable information such as the number of years a person has been married and, on occasion, relationships beyond the immediate family such as when a cousin, brother-in-law, etc. is recorded as living with the family)
