Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
The PRONI – Historical Maps Viewer can be used to search and browse seven historical Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland maps and four modern base maps (including aerial imagery). The viewer displays county, parish and townland boundaries and includes information…
dúchas.ie is a project to digitize the National Folklore Collection of Ireland, one of the largest folklore collections in the world. The Schools’ Collection is the first collection being made available on this site. It is a collection of folklore…
This site has for sale up-to-date maps for all six counties of Northern Ireland, both as paper products and downloadable digital products. There is also a range of online historical maps in development which are free to view. New
This site has extracts of births, marriages and deaths transcribed from newspapers but also news stories, book extracts, church records, records of deceased seamen and the names of 25,000+ Presbyterians who served during the Great War of 1914-1919. New
General Register Office of Northern Ireland (GRONI) has launched an online search facility for Northern Ireland birth, death and marriage records. It is free to search the indexes and charges apply to access digitial copies of the records. Registration indexes…
This site has a searchable database of headstone inscriptions from 41 historic graveyards in the Borough of Ballymena. The Old Churchyard (Ballymena) is currently not available. New
This database includes historical administrative names of counties, baronies, districts, parishes, townlands etc, and names of rivers, lakes, mountains and other physical details in the six counties of Northern Ireland. (Antrim, Armagh, Derry/Londonderry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone). New
Use the Resources link to access Unique Resources. These include: • Early Irish Marriage Index (pre 1864) with 213,000+ entries. This free index has been compiled from records at the Registry of Deeds in Dublin plus newspaper announcements, marriages noted…
These include:• 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911 census for England, Scotland (not 1911), Wales, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The records are fully indexed with a free surname search. A variety of subscription options offer…
This site offers online searching of 360,000+ burial records for Belfast from 1869 onwards. A search returns the name of deceased, last place of residence, age, sex, date of death, date of burial, cemetery, grave section/ number and burial type.…