IRISH RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET
This page was prepared by
Barbara Lewis for her class,
Irish Research on the Internet,
which is held periodically at the Ogden Family Search
Library, in Ogden, Utah.
Updated May 20, 2013
LDS RESOURCES
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Catalog Click on SEARCH at the top and then CATALOG
Online
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click on "anyplace" at the left
New
Familysearch online (will soon
be replaced by FamilyTree (above)
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GOOGLE
This could be your most important tool
in researching!
GENUKI
-Ireland...information
related to all of Ireland
IRELAND on
WIKI.....If you are into records 1845 and after, you need
to use this site: Click on Civil Registration and read the information under
"Contents" at the left.
GETTING
STARTED.....from the National Archives of Ireland....summary of
the various records available.....
CENSUS AND CENSUS SUBSTITUTES
About Irish Census records:
The first Irish census to survive intact is 1901. This is available at the
Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
1911 Census of
Ireland: The National Archives of Ireland census website has been
updated to provide new search options for the 1911 census, including: Relation
to Head of Household, Literacy, Occuptation, Marital Status, County/Country
of Origin, Language Proficiency, Specified Illnesses, Number of Years Married,
Number of Children Born, and Number of Children Living. All thirty-two counties
for 1911 are now available on the site. :
1901 Census of Ireland: The National Archives of Ireland
Earlier Irish census records were largely destroyed by fire in Dublin in 1922. There are fragments which have been transcribed by genealogists but these include only a very small amount of the original records. The best known Irish census substitute is Griffith's Valuations which was a listing of who the renters were and who owned the property. It was begun about 1848.
Irish
Census Information
Online Census
Indexes and Records
Census records
online: This site has not only census records listed
by county, but Griffith Valuation, Tithe Applotment, Pigots Directories,
and other resources..
Householder's
Index:: explanation and visual samples
Griffiths
Primary Valuation Search Engine and explanation
of....
Valuation
Revision Books: From PRONI. These are the
continuation records of the original Griffiths Valuation (1847 - 1864), and
use the same plot numbers and townlands. You can use these records to see
when someone acquired or disposed of a property, when they died (eg theoccupant
will change to "reps of."), plus other changes such as purchase. Covered
are counties Antrim, Armagh, Down,Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone between
the years 1864 to 1933.
Griffith's
Valuation on "Ask About Ireland" ( between 1848
and 1864)...I'm told the spelling has to be letter perfect on this
search engine...but it is an excellent source.
Tithe
Applotment on Ancestry: Information from the Tithe Books
has been extracted and the have been indexed in this data set. Only
the six counties that constitute present-day Northern Ireland – Antrim,
Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, covering 223 parishes, are
included. If you find an ancestor among the nearly 200,000 listed, you will
learn the following:Name, County, Parish, Townland, Year of Enumeration
Tithe Applotments from the National Archives 1823-1837....a search in most counties here
Tithe
Applotments: LDS film nos...by townland
Freeholder's
Index (PRONI)...search engine off to the
right...Lists of people entitled to vote
(abt 1775-1825)
Irish
Flax Growers List of 1796
(Ancestry)
Another Flax Growers
List
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Ireland Genweb
Project
Northern Ireland
Gebweb
Ireland
Mailing Lists...
Northern Ireland
Mailing Lists
All Mailing
lists There are many, kind people on these lists who are
very helpful, and some professionals even volunteer their
"expertise."
See Instruction for joining a MAILING LIST at the bottom of this page.
Message Boards on Ancestry.....from the home page, go to the Collaborate Tab at the top and down to Message Boards box and click on the "Go to the boards" link on the green strip. In the Find a Board search engine, type in your surname or locality. Then select the one you need, as there will several listed. Use the Keyword box to type in your key word; it is strongly suggested that you use a surname keyword on a locality board or a locality keyword for a surname message board, or..go directly to Find a Board
Message Boards on Genealogy.Com (GenForum)
IRISH SURNAMES
Surname
Registery... Mailing Lists, great links to each county,
and a link to New York resources for Irish research
Irish Clans and
Surnames
Irish
Surnames on Ancestry.com
Or from Home page, go up to Search
Tab, scroll down to UK and Ireland, bring up Ireland records
and then scroll down to Ireland Reference and Finding Aids.
Irish
Surnames ...on the right side of page
Irish
Origins.....run a free name search
Surname
Thesaurus.....to find variations of spellings
MAPS
but first, some general facts about Ireland.....
Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom.
The British Isles consist of Great Britain and Ireland
(plus many small islands around the coast of both.)
Great Britain is politically divided into England, Scotland
and Wales.Ireland is politically divided into Republic of Ireland (used to
be Irish Free State or Eire) and Northern Ireland.
UK is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ruled
from Westminster and regional parliaments and with Queen Elizabeth II as
monarch.
The Republic of Ireland is now an independent, foreign country to
the UK with its own president and parliament.
Historically Ireland is divided into four provinces; Leinster, Munster, Connought
and Ulster. Ulster comprises nine counties of which
three are in the Republic of Ireland and six in Northern
Ireland.
IRISH PROVINCES:
LEINSTER: Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois
(Leix/Queen's),Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly (King's Co.), Westmeath, Wexford
and Wicklow.
MUNSTER: Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and
Waterford.
ULSTER: Divided in two sections --
(1) Northern Ireland : Antrim, Armagh, Derry/Londonderry, Down,
Fermanagh, and Tyrone.
(2) Republic of Ireland: Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan.
CONNAUGHT: Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.
OK.....now the web sites....
Irish
Jurisdictions: Province, Barony, Townland etc
Administrative
Divisions of Ireland
IreAtlas Townland
Database...Seanruad
Ordinance Survey
Map--Mapviewer
Googlemaps UK
Multimap.com
Maps
of Ireland
Misc
maps of Ireland
Maps of
Ulster----religious distribution
The
Counties on "Irish Ancestors" They have recently changed this
site to "Irish Times" ...so click on the link here, click on your county
on the map, and then click on the "civil parishes" link at the left.
Listed will be the townlands in the parish.
Parish
Maps of Northern Ireland.....
Townlands
of Ulster
Ireland's History in
Maps
CoraWeb...a
great site with important links
Early
Manuscripts
VITAL RECORDS
Explore links for your county...scroll down to bottom of this page..
Register of Deeds Not quite "vital records" but a very important resource
Bill Macafee's Website: One Stop-Shopping for County Derry......if you're a Derry researcher, don't miss this site!
Find My Past Ireland The earliest records date back to the 13th century (wills) and include several important collections from the 18th century (The Elphin Census 1749 and the 1798 Rebellion records). The collection includes the exclusive publication of the Landed Estates Court records, a crucial resource for the mid- to late-19th century, which includes details of over 500,000 tenants on Irish estates.
Irish Records on Ancestry . Scroll down to the UK and Ireland link. Click on map of Northern Ireland and Ireland separately, as there are database for each.
Irish Family History Foundation.....a pay site, but a very important place to search for records... This site is updated often with new records available from the various counties.
County Heritage Centers- find out which records are indexed Click on "Counties Online" at the right; click on a closeup of your county and note the sources available for that county and research centers located in that county.
Irish Genealogy: FREE Church Records of Kerry, Dublin, Carlow, and the RC Dioceses of Cork and Ross...notice the "Church Records" link at the top!!
Irish Ancestry on "Irish Times"...an excellent site for earnest researchers
Ireland Genealogy Project Archives (GPA)......links to the individual couties in table below
Batch Numbers ( Hugh Wallis site) ....records extracted by the LDS and found on the "old" IGI
British Isles and North America Batch numbers
Emerald Ancestors
Free Quick Search
Civil Registration index
on LDS films--births
Civil Registration index on LDS films-marriages
Headstones--a subscription with a free inscription search
Burial Records on "Ancestors at Rest"
Ireland Genealogy Links....by county...contains many vital records
Ireland Marriages and Marriage Database
Ulster Ancestry ...an excellent profesional service site, but first click on "Free Pages" at top of home page.....ask a question and Robert will answer and be very helpful
Italian Genealogy Group for NYC vital records and naturalization indexes
CHURCH RECORDS
A Guide
to Church Records at PRONI
Church
Records....explanation of..
Church
Records from " Irish Ancestors " follow links at the
left....
Presbyterian
Church
Presbyterian
Church Records ..Presbyterian Historical Society Archives,
Belfast
Presbyterian
Church Records at PRONI
Roman Catholic Records ...from "Irish Ancestors"...bring up by county and then parish...shows where the records are held.
Roman
Catholic Church of Ireland
Records from the
National Library of Ireland in Dublin...a great site to find out
what parish registers are available for the Republic of Ireland. Unfortunately
the parishes are listed under the Diocese, so you can either find out
what Diocese your parish is in by googling, or go through all 4 links shown
and do a Ctrl-find to bring up your parish.
Roman
Catholic Parish Registers (Brian Mitchell)
Roman
Catholic Records from "Irish Times" .......an easy to use map;
click on your county, then click on your selected parish
Roman
Catholic Church Records at PRONI
Church
of Ireland records
(Brian
Mitchell)
Index
to the Church of Ireland Records at PRONI....Link found
below picture of Cathedral.
EMMIGRATION AND PASSENGER LISTS
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Irish
Passenger Lists Research Guide..........worth reading before you
dive in!!
The
Ships List
Ancestors on
Board
From Ireland
to America (Ancestry.com)
Irish
Emigrants into New York City
1846-1851(Ancestry)
Irish
Immigration to US and Canada (Olive Tree
Genealogy)
Irish Ships
Passenger Lists (Olive Tree Genealogy)
Peter
Robinson settlers...Ireland to Canada (Olive Tree
Genealogy)
List
of Poor sent from England to Ireland
(1860-1862)
Irish
Passengers Lists
More Irish
Passenger Lists
Immigrant Ships Transcribers
Guild
Ireland
to Quebec/Ireland to Pennsylvania (Olive Tree
Genealogy)
Galway
to NYC....1851 (Famine Immigrants)
Book
2 of the
above
Book
3 of the above
Gateway
to searchable online passenger lists....in case you
missed one of the sites listed above
All
Ireland Passenger Lists...many overlap with those
above....but contains some different ones
Passenger
lists from Donegal
Irish
Passenger Lists
Ships
Passenger Lists From Ireland 1811
Castlegarden...CastleGarden.org
offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million
immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.
Over 3
million Americans can trace their ancestors to this
early immigration
period.
GREAT LINKS TO IRISH RESOURCES
Family
History Workshops from Boyd Gray Boyd Gray is an
experienced Irish researcher living in County Donegal Ireland,. His
primary genealogy interests are related to West Ulster and in particular
Counties Donegal, Tyrone, and Londonderry.
About
the Abercorn Papers..from PRONI,,,,,also see this
link from the LDS
catalog
Connors
Genealogy..This site has a search engine to easily find what is
posted.
Irish Roots
Irish Genealogy
Project--IGP ...links also
found on some counties in the table below
Calendar
of Wills online for the Londonderry Probate area (PRONI)
1858-1900......search
engine...
These were a brief outline of wills and Letters of Application (for those
who died intestate) which are currently kept either in Derry Probate Office
or Belfast PRONI.
They often give next of kin.
Locating where your family
lived in Ireland....you're not alone if you don't
know!!
Social
Security Death Index (US...may show birth place of
Irish Ancestor if he came to the U.S. in recent
years)
The
Great Irish Potato Famine...the story
of....
Irish
Resources
(Ancestry.com)...a
must....more and more Irish resources added frequently
Fianna.....One
of the BEST Irish sites for research on the Internet
!!!!
Bob's
Genealogy links
Irish
Ancestors Page...Great info about Irish terminology and
resources --a real fun site!!
Cyndi's List for Ireland
and Northern Ireland
Ulster
Ancestry Links ....there are many Free links that you can use
on this site!
Pigot & Co's Provincial
Directory of Ireland 1824
Genealogy Bank-Includes 8 historical Irish-American newspapers
Irish Genealogy News-Blogs about what's new in Irish Research
LIBRARIES AND HERITAGE CENTERS
The Public Record Office of Northern
Ireland (PRONI)
The General Record
Offic of Northern Ireland (GRO)
National Library
of Ireland (Dublin)
National Archives of
Ireland
Irish
Heritage Centers--North and South
CIVIL REGISTRATION
Civil
Registration explained
What BMD certificates are
available from the General Record
Office?
Ordering BMD
Certificates
What information is
found on the Birth, Marriage, and Death
Certificates?...scroll
down to #2
Civil
Registration.....and how to obtain certificates
Civil
Registration Index (BMDs) at the FHL in Salt Lake City ...click
on "Civil Registration"
Italian Genealogical Group....Did your .Irish kin come into New
York? This is a great site to locate them there.
***BMD
Certificates available at the FHL in Salt Lake city
PAY SITES
Irish
Family History Foundation---Online Service---see above
Ancestry.com......Many
good Irish resources...check back often
Irish
Genealogy...click on "Search records free" in
green box at top...very popular among researchers
Ulster
Ancestry...check on the "Free Pages" at the
top
AncestryIreland..enter surname in search box
for free databases
Emerald
Ancestors
Irish
Origins.... official records for a
fee
West Ulster Genealogy
Services
Irish Roots
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