Maynooth University – All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) – Census Mapping Ireland
The maps provide visualisations of population data for all 32 Irish counties from 1841 to 2002. New
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
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Ancestry.com – United Kingdom, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969
This is a diverse collection of birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial records. Most document events in the lives of British subjects, but the records were created, recorded, or held for safekeeping outside of the UK. There are records from…
RootsIreland.ie – County Carlow
RootsIreland.ie is the database run by the non-profit Irish Family History Foundation, coordinators of the county genealogy centres network. It offers access to 20.7+ million Irish records held by these centres. The records available include:• Baptismal/Birth records• Marriage recordsThe indexed…
National Library of Ireland – Catholic Parish Register Images Online
The online images cover most Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland up to 1880. The free images, in black and white, are of the microfilms of the original birth and marriage registers held by the National Library of Ireland.…
A Rose by any Other Name: A Guide to Irish Christian Names
This online book by Judith Eccles Wright lists the formal name, nicknames, names used interchangeably plus the Latin and Irish name. An invaluable aid to finding your Irish family as the nickname or Irish name was often used on the…
The Irish Mission at Watson House (New York)
The Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls operated from 1883 to 1954 in Watson House overlooking New York Harbour. It was close to the Castle Garden immigration depot. The mission aimed to…
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage – Ireland
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) is a section within the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The work of the NIAH involves identifying and recording the architectural heritage of Ireland, from 1700 to the present day. This…
County Louth Ireland Genealogical Sources
This site offers access to 250+ pages of information about the inhabitants of County Louth. Included are church records, lists of voters, householders and valuation lists, subscription funds, militia lists and much more. Browse using the Site Map or use…
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is the family history site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It offers free access 8+ billion searchable names and 3.2+ billion digitised records worldwide. Resources include FamilySearch Catalog; FamilySearch Digital Library with 500,000+ digitised books…
Earl Greys Irish Famine Orphans
This blog by Trevor McClaughlin is his attempt to set down what he knows about Earl Grey’s Famine orphan scheme, a topic he has extensively researched since the 1970s. The blog categories include: “Belfast Girls”, Atlas of the Great Irish…