Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
This site, by Barbara Barclay, has been created as part of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Heritage Studies at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Mayo Campus and forms an ongoing project to discover more information about the 137 Mayo…
This site by the Geography Department, University College Cork and Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht offers access interactive maps containing detailed information on the impact of the famine on each of 3,000 civil parishes and 1,600 towns. You…
Use this site to find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one’s memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the…
These records contain name, date of birth or age, date of appointment and where educated plus they can contain details of hospital training and other hospital and nursing experience including midwifery and district training plus much more. Original images from…
This local studies collection encompasses all aspects of life in County Cork, past and present. The unique collections include:• Cork Collection • Irish Reference Collection • Local history files • Family History Collection • Periodical Collection • Newspaper Collection• Cork…
Free UK Genealogy works with volunteers to make transcriptions of family history records. Current projects include transcribing the England and Wales index of Births Marriages and Deaths, historic Parish Registers and 19th Century Censuses. The resulting databases FreeBMD, FreeCEN and…
This extensive site offers access to a wealth of information via several databases. These include: • Irish Surnames – a search returns the surname mapped, a list of variants, surname histories and details of published family histories and more •…
This fully indexed search facility has comprehensive information on all graveyards within a 4-mile radius of the town of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Clonmel has digital images of the actual Burial Register entry 1886-1926 available. There are…
Tinteán, is an initiative of the Australian Irish Heritage Network and is designed for all those interested in their own Australian-Irish heritage or in Australian-Irish history and culture. It is an independent, unaligned and inclusive production. It has been online…
A project group is being formed to trace the descendants of the Orphan Girls Scheme who emigrated to Australia on the ship ‘Palestine’. The project will be twofold. One line of inquiry will trace the lives of the Orphan Girls’ descendants in…