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Clare County Library has added another fabulously useful record set to its free online materials: Claremen who served in the American Civil War, 1861–1865.

The collection has been donated by Sharon Carberry who has transcribed data on 381 individual soldiers recorded in obituaries, pension records, official muster rolls, biographies etc. Some of the entries are quite detailed, including personal descriptions, occupation, place and date of enlistment (and, often, age at that date), date and method of discharge.

This is a 'must-check' collection for those with ancestors from County Clare.
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Final 2014 instalment of free records from IGP-web

The following transcriptions/photos have been added to Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives in the last two weeks of 2014:

GENERAL IRELAND Genealogy Archives – Newspapers
Freemans Journal, 21 April 1843 Repeal in America*, Philadelphia
Freemans Journal, 25 May 1843 Repeal in America*, New York

CAVAN Genealogy Archives – Headstones
St. Peters, Templeport (part)

DONEGAL Genealogy Archives – Vital Records
Assorted Donegal deaths - 1869

MEATH Genealogy Archives – Cemetery
Knock Graveyard (Memorials)

*The Repeal in America records are particularly interesting as they include the names and counties of origin of those emigrants who contributed to Daniel O'Connell's Repeal of the Union fund.

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Irish Surgeons in Ireland

Irish Surgeons in Ireland

Surgeon ancestors? Examination registers now online The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has uploaded scans of the College's Examination Register to its online Heritage Collection, which is free to view. The registers date from 1784 to 1803. They're arranged alphabetically (after a fashion) and record those who were examined in the RCSI for Letters Testimonial, Mateship, Army Surgeon, Surgeoncy, Army Mate, Navy Mate, Assistant Surgeon and to be a ranked mate to a ranked officer. - See more at: http://www.irishgenealogynews.com

Catholic Parish Reocrds

Press release from the National Library of Ireland:

We are delighted to announce that we will make the NLI’s entire collection of Catholic parish register microfilms available online – for free – by summer 2015…
…Commenting today, Colette O’Flaherty, Head of Special Collections at the NLI, said: “This is the most ambitious digitisation project in the history of the NLI, and our most significant ever genealogy project. We believe it will be of huge assistance to those who wish to research their family history. At this stage, we have converted the microfilm reels on which the registers are recorded into approximately 390,000 digital images. We will be making all these images available, for free, on a dedicated website, which will be launched in summer 2015.

RootsIreland adds seven new databases for Derry City

RootsIreland adds seven new databases for Derry City

RootsIreland.ie has uploaded seven new record sets from Derry Genealogy Centre. Mostly compiled from Derry City record sets, these databases date from 1628 to 1921 and most fall into the category of census substitutes. They are: The earliest census of the city, namely the rent roll of 1628 The names of 905 men from Derry and surrounding estates who defended Derry’s walls during the 1641 Rebellion The names of 1,660 supporters of the 1689–91 Williamite campaign, many of whom fought at the Siege of Derry in 1689 The names of 226 citizens of the city who signed a petition condemning a Jacobite plot to assassinate King William III in 1696 The names of 110 leaseholders within the walled city in 1738 The names of 191 Derry men and women who were held in the County Jail on Bishop Street from 1839 to 1856 awaiting transportation to Australia Reconstruction of census for Derry city during ‘the Troubles’ of 1920, extracted from Derry Almanac of 1921, which names 8,367 heads of households against their street address and house number.You can check out the full range of records held on the RootsIreland database, here. - See more at: http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/#sthash.DlzbSii1.dpuf

Clare County Ireland

Yet more transcriptions from Clare County Library

 Clare County Library has had a busy month of website uploads. Having added five new sets of transcriptions just over a week ago (see blogpost), three more have been added in the last few days. They are headstone inscriptions from the graveyards of Kilmaleery, Kilconry and Clonloghan, and the dates recorded range from 1765 to 1996. The main family names from Kilmaleery are McMahon, Frawley, Fahy and McInerney; in Kilconry they are Donohue/O’Donoghue, Burke, McMahon and McNamara; while the prominent surnames in Clonloghan are Hannan/Hannon, Hastings, Hickey, Moroney and Corbett. The transcriptions have been taken from surveys carried out by Pat Carrig for OBAIR Newmarket-on-Fergus in the late 1990s. His original survey notebooks were lent to the library by Canon Reuben Butler. - See more at: http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/#.dpuf

Dublin Ireland Records

There may be some Irish researchers that would be interested in this.  It provides excellent vital stats information.

 

Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, this includes survivng personnel records.

 

http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/GenealogySearch.aspx

 

County Clare Library in Ireland adds more records

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County Clare Library adds more useful records

If you have Church of Ireland ancestors from Clonlea parish in County Clare, you'll be keen to check out these latest additions to the ever-excellent County Clare Library website.

http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2014/09/county-clare-library-adds-more-useful.html

 

Baptism records 1879–1947 (43 records)

Marriage records 1845–1946 (20 records)

Burial Records 1891-1961 (23 records) 

While these Protestant record sets are small in number, they will be very well received by those will family connections to the area, so a big thanks is due to Michael McNamara who transcribed and donated his work to the Library. - See more at: http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2014/09/county-clare-library-adds-more-useful.html#.dpuf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irish Directories Database

Thanks to IRISH GENEALOGY NEWS BLOG

Irish Directories Database updated Another fifty directories have been added to the Irish Directories Database. This latest update brings the total number of directories included to 795, some 250 more than when the database launched only five months ago. This useful resource is the work of Joe Buggy, an Irish genealogist now based in Washington who publishes the Townland of Origin blog, and Shane Wilson, a family historian based in Dublin whose website is packed with maps, photos and records freely available to researchers. The Irish Directories Database is hosted on Shane's site. - See more at: http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/#.dpuf

Irish Lives Remembered Genealogy e-Magazine

The May/June edition of Irish Lives Remembered Genealogy e-Magazine is now live and can be read FREE of charge via www.irishlivesremembered.com or http://bit.ly/1kJ7tgY   

 

We have ‘'Pinked Up' our latest edition (23^rd issue) to welcome the Giro d'Italia to Ireland.  Our  front page showcases a 104 year old photograph of the South Eastern Wheelers from Waterford Bicycle Club dated 4th July 1909’.  This photo is from the Poole Collection courtesy of the National Library of Ireland http://bit.ly/Q0vhl4

 

In this edition we have over 70 pages of Irish Genealogy articles to include:

 

Tracing your Carlow Ancestors (18 pages)

·         Carlow library & Findmypast Ireland showcases some fantastic Carlow resources

·         Turtle Bunbury delves into his own roots at Lisnavagh

·         Fiona Fitzsimons researches U.K. Poet Laureate, Carole Ann Duffy’s Carlow Ancestry

·         U.K. based John Nolan talks about life after emigrating from Bagenalstown

The Irish in America

·         Joe Buggy provides an overview on where to research the Irish in New Hampshire

·         Maureen Wlodarczyk  looks at Irish revolutionary war veteran, Henry Gibson

·         Brett Irwin highlights letters from Irish soldiers in the American Civil War

·         Celtic Connections invite you to their 2 day conference in Massachusetts

 

The Irish in Australia

·         Shauna Hicks helps trace the Irish in the Australian Capital Territory (CAP)

·         Siobhan O’Neill shares her research on Australian outlaw, Ned Kelly

 

Other News

·         Findmypast Ireland launch 100 records sets in 100 days campaign 

·         John Hamrock appointed Chairman of The Genealogical Society of Ireland

·         Irish Genealogy Summer School at University College Cork

·         Launch of the Pre-1901 Irish Census records

·         County Museum Dundalk celebrate 20 years

·         Tourism Ireland launch The Wild Atlantic Way

 

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Eileen Munnelly

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Irish Lives Remembered Genealogy eMagazine

 

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Irish Times report on Catholic Registers

irishtimes.com - Posted: April 14, 2014 @ 9:57 am

The original Catholic registers are rotting

John Grenham

Roman Catholic parish registers constitute by far the most important set of records for nineteenth-century Irish local and family history. And, in the furore over access, one vital point is constantly missed. The original records are still sitting in the sacristies and presbyteries around the country where they have been for the past two centuries. No organization on the island is concerned with preserving them: there is no archival programme to ensure their survival.
Why should this matter? Aren’t they’re all copied online anyway? Or on microfilm in the National Library?
Here are some facts about the collections of copies. The National Library microfilm project, heroic as it was, has serious flaws. A few parishes were missed entirely – Rathlin Island, for example – and some films are so out of focus as to be illegible. Comparing the years covered by the heritage centres’ transcriptions with the years held on Library microfilm reveals that at least 200 parishes have records earlier than those filmed by the Library. Aghada in east Cork, for example, has records going back 40 years before the NLI microfilm.
The mismatch also works in the other direction. More than 100 parishes have earlier years on microfilm than in heritage centre transcript. Newtowncashel in Longford has a full register containing 35 years of baptisms on NLI film, which is missing from Longford Heritage Centre records. The likelihood is that this earlier register was somehow lost or destroyed between the NLI microfilm in the 1970s and the transcription project in the 1990s. How many other registers have also since disappeared?
No copy can take the place of the original. The registers themselves are the property of the Catholic Church, and also the Church’s responsibility. If the Hierarchy wants to keep them private, by all means let them be locked away in diocesan archives for a century or more. But something has to be done to stop these priceless records from rotting away.

Records of Irish immigrant women in NYC launched

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Records of Irish immigrant women in NYC launched

An important archive of female Irish emigrants has been launched online at WatsonHouse.org.

This release has been in the pipe for some time but after Hurricane Sandy caused damage to the building in which the original materials were stored, there was concern the digitisation project might have stalled.

But in the last few days, without any fanfare, this significant collection has been uploaded and released free of charge.

The records originate from the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls. This Mission operated from 1883 to 1954 in Watson House, which overlooks New York Harbour. It was the brain-child of Charlotte Grace O'Brien, daughter of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien, and was set up close to Castle Garden, the depot where immigrants were landed in the mid-to-late 19th century, before Ellis Island opened.

It aimed to help young vulnerable Irish women on their arrival in New York and offered safe and free temporary accommodation, as well as assistance finding employment or tracing relatives.

Between 1883 and 1908, more than 300,000 Irish women aged from just 14 to 44 immigrated via New York port. Around one-third of them were helped in one way or another by the Mission. Their details were recorded in sets of ledgers.

Five of these ledgers have been digitised and make up the launch record set on the new site. They cover the years 1897 to 1940 and hold some 35,000 entries. The details provided are name of ship and arrival date, woman's name, age, county of origin, and follow-on or destination address. The latter usually gives the name of the person, and relationship, if any, to the immigrant.

The counties of Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry and Mayo feature proportionally higher than other places of origin, no doubt reflecting the relative poverty and higher levels of emigration from the west of Ireland.

Although the Mission concentrated on women, there seem to be a number of men recorded in the ledgers, too. A quick search found full entries for John Baldwin of Queen's, Patrick Keeley from Kings and Michael Walsh from Cork, and many others. I've no idea why these young men were receiving assistance. I shall try to find out.

In the meantime, enjoy this valuable new resource. I'd also recommend the online Exhibition, which carries a lot of well-researched material about the city the women landed in and how they were cared for by the Mission.

(Many thanks to Joe Buggy, author of Tracing your Irish Ancestors in New York, for tipping me off on the launch.)
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Irish Lives Remembered

 

The March issue (22^nd edition) of Irish Lives Remembered Genealogy e-Magazine is now live and FREE to read/download via www.irishlivesremembered.com 

 

In this edition we are delighted to showcase Riverdance Composer, Bill Whelan’s Family History researched by the team at Irish Ancestry Research Centre in Limerick.

 

Tracing your Limerick Ancestors (26 pages)

·         Dr. James Ryan & Margaret Franklin guide us through researching your Limerick Ancestors

·         Photo Historian, Jayne Shrimpton covers a New York image of Limerick born Actress, Ada Rehan

·         Limerick Genealogy Day invites you all to a free event in Christ Church

·         Findmypast Ireland, Limerick Genealogy, Limerick City Library, Limerick Studies, Limerick Life, Limerick Archives & Limerick Museum showcase what records they hold for the city & county

·         Irish Ancestry Research Centre & Bridget Bray team up for ‘The Genealogy Event’ this August

Tracing the Irish in New York

·         Joe Buggy provides an overview on where to research the Irish in New York

·         We take a look inside Joe’s new book Finding the Irish in New York City

·         Renowned U.S. Genealogist, Megan Smolenyak finds the real Annie Moore

·         Maureen Wlodarczyk  covers the story of Cavan born Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

 

Other News

·         Brian Donovan from Eneclann shares his views on why Genealogy & Family History should become an industry

·         Findmypast Ireland showcase their new FREE APP ‘I Once Was’ 

·         Win a copy of The Morpeth Roll book courtesy of Four Courts Press

·         Michael Merrigan discusses the Battle of Clontarf 1014 and its historical importance

·         Lorna Moloney invites you to the Irish Genealogy Summer School at University College Cork

·         Australian Family Historian Shauna Hicks helps you trace the Irish in the Northern Territory 

·         Celtic Ashes launches a new range of cremation jewellery to remember your Irish loved ones

 

 

 

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RootsIreland delivers first batch of Co Clare records

Clare turns green at RootsIreland

The first batch of the promised Co Clare records has been uploaded to RootsIreland, turning the county green on the site's coverage map.

Some 32,000 transcribed baptism records for the seven Roman Catholic parishes listed below can now be searched for the years shown:

Cratloe 1802 - 1901
Crusheen 1860 - 1900
Ennis 1841 - 1900
Feakle 1860 - 1900
Mountshannon 1846 - 1900
Parteen 1831 - 1902
Scariff 1852 - 1900

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Irish Petty Session Court Registers

Ireland – FindMyPast Ireland has added 2.6 million more petty court records to their collection of Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers. This collection spans the years from 1828 to 1912 and covers a variety of minor offenses and misdemeanors such as trespassing, public drunkenness, failure to pay rent, etc. With this newest addition, this collection covers over 20 million records with a significant expansion of records from Cork, Kerry, Offaly and Tipperary. FindMyPast Ireland now has over 76 million records in total. If you are not familiar with the website, the brief video below is a good introduction. Access is by subscription. [Irish Petty Court Records] - See more at: http://www.genealogyintime.com/GenealogyResources/NewGenealogyRecords/newest_genealogy_records_on_the_internet.html#sthash.ia8q8voT.dpuf

Irish Land Maps 1656-1658

M.C.Morgan of "Ottawa Valley Irish" Blog recently posted an interesting blog about the Irish Land Maps 1656-1658

http://ottawafamilytree.net/2013/06/06/irish-land-maps-1656-1658-available-online/

Additions to PRONI Valuation Books Online

 

 

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has added 39 Valuation Revision Books, missing from the original upload. Check out the collection of images indexed by place at http://goo.gl/c1EYPR

Ireland 1913

Ireland – The Church of Ireland has put online the church’s official weekly gazette for the year 1913. The Church of Ireland gazette essentially served as the weekly newspaper for the church. It lists specific names, places and events that occurred in 1913. The gazette can be searched by keyword or phrase. Access is free. [Church of Ireland 1913 Gazette] -
See more at: http://ireland.anglican.org/about/128

Irish Wills.. Index to abstracts and transcripts

IGRS Launches new online Irish Wills resource

The Irish Genealogical Research Society has launched a new online index to abstracts and transcripts of Irish wills.  

The destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922 consumed virtually all of Ireland’s pre-1858 testamentary records. During the decades following, efforts were made by various institutions and individuals to locate copies and abstracts of Irish wills. The IGRS wills card index is an early and praiseworthy attempt by IGRS members to build a central database of genealogical abstracts from a variety of testamentary sources.

The index includes references from a number of important and lesser known collections, referring to wills from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. . It notes Irish Prerogative and Consistorial wills from the Betham Collection as well as from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; the Welply Collection at the Society of Genealogists, plus the Swanzy Collection held by the IGRS.

 

Other sources are not only wills deposited at the Library, or quoted in our manuscript collection, but also wills held in private collections quoted in the IGRS annual journal, The Irish Genealogist, as well as in other journals. In addition, the card index also includes many regional wills & administrations.

 

There are approximately 4000 cards in all and while they stretch from Acheson to Young, those from A to F are slightly better covered than the rest of the alphabet.

In each case, the full source for the abstract is quoted, and great pains were taken to show family relationships, making this an essential reference for anyone involved in Irish genealogy.

This important new resource joins a fast growing collection of records -- many of them unique -- now being made available on the Society's website www.IrishAncestors.ie. While the Wills Index is one of several resources accessible to Members-only (annual subscription: £21/€26/US$35), others records and databases can be viewed by non-members in the publicly accessible Unique Resources section of the site.

Ireland: Galway County

Ireland – Galway County is formally launching their online digital archive. Although small at the moment, the collection is expected to grow larger in the future. Already, some burial records and Poor Law Union records have gone online. The archive appears to be focussing on putting the most requested collections online first. Access is free. [Galway County Digital Archive] -
See more at: http://www.galway.ie/en/Services/ArchivesService/OurDigitalArchive/