Monday 30 September 2019

Irish genealogy and heritage events, 30 Sept to 13 Oct

Monday 30 September: All services and exhibitions operating at National Library of Ireland. After many months of Monday Reading Room and Manuscript Room closures, all areas of the NLI open.

Tuesday 1 October: The Victorian Church in Dublin, with Alastair Rowan. First of the Victorian Dublin Revealed lecture series. Hosts: The Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Heritage Office. Venue: Irish Georgian Society, City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2. Fee €15. All welcome. 6:30pm. Booking required. Brochure.

Tuesday 1 October: Who Do You Think You Are? An introduction to the genealogy resources of Donegal Co. Council's Culture Division. Host: Donegal Connect. Venue: Donegal Public Service Centre, Drumlonagher, Donegal Town. One-hour talks at 10am, 11:30am and 1pm. Free. Need to book. See details.

Tuesday 1 October: Burning and looting Country Houses during the Irish Civil War, with Professor Terence Dooley. A Decade of Centenaries Lecture. Host: Cavan Library Service. Venue: Johnston Central Library, Farnham Street, Cavan. All welcome. Free. 7pm.

Wednesday 2 October: Jews and Protestants in Dublin in 1919, with Berni Dwan, Ida Milne and Melanie Brown. Part of the Dublin in the Era of the Tan War series. Host: Near 90.3fm. Venue: Ballymun Library, 9 Ballymun Rd, Ballymun, Dublin 9. Doors open 6:15 for 6:30pm start. Evening includes music. Free. All welcome.

Thursday 3 October: Family History Sources at the Registry of Deeds, a guided tour. Host: PRAI. Venue: Registry of Deeds, Henrietta St, Dublin 1. 1-2pm. Free. Fully Booked.

Thursday 3 October: Ulster Scots Family History Festival – Genealogy, demonstrations of industrial and cultural heritage, music, song, dance, poetry, and drama. Host: Monreagh Ulster Scots Heritage and Education Centre. Venue: An Grianan Hotel, Burt, Co Donegal (Inishowen Peninsula). Noon to 6pm. Details.

Thursday 3 October: Limerick and other 'Soviets', with Donal Fallon. Host: Dublin City Libraries. Venue: Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Rd, Kylemore, Dublin. Admission free. All welcome. 6.30pm. Need to book.

Friday 4 October: Who Do You Think You Are? An introduction to the genealogy resources of Donegal Co. Council's Culture Division. Host: Donegal Culture Division. Venue: Central Library, Oliver Plunkett Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal. One-hour talks at 10am, 11:30am and 1pm. Free. Need to book.

Saturday 5 October: Aspects of Ireland’s Post War Conflict: The Life and Death of Terence MacSwiney. Host: Western Front Association. Venue: Room 103 of the Cork School of Commerce, Morrisons Island, Centre, Cork. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Saturday 5 October: An Irish house history, with Chris Paton. Host: Lanarkshire Family History Show. Venue: Motherwell Concert Hall, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell, Scotland ML1 1AB. Admission £2. Lecture £3. All show visitors and exhibitors welcome. 10:30am. No booking required. Details.

Saturday 5 October: Starting Your Genealogy, a day course, with Rosemary Sibbett. Host and Venue: North of Ireland Family History Society, C4 Research Centre and Library, Valley Business Centre, 67 Church Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 7LS. Free parking. Members and non-members welcome. Fee £14 Two sessions: 11am–1pm and 2pm–4pm. Lunch not provided but there's a cafe in the centre. Need to book.

Sunday 6 October: Scandal in the Big House, a day conference with refreshments, four lectures, lunch, afternoon tea and a guided tour of the gardens. Host and venue: Dromana House, Cappoquin, Co Waterford. 10am for 11am start. €75 pp or €130 for 2 persons. Details.

Sunday 6 October: From the Huguenots to Independence: a celebration of weaving in the Liberties, a day of talks. Hosts: Liberties Cultural Association and Dublin City Council. Venue:Little Flowers Centre, 11 Meath St, The Liberties, Dublin 8. Talks on the hour, every hour 10am to 5pm incl. Free. All welcome. No booking required. Details.

Monday 7 October: Ballymacarrett Graveyard, with Charlotte Murtaghld. Host: NIFHS, Killyleagh branch. Venue: Masonic Hall, 50 High Street, Killyleagh, Co. Down, BT30 9QF. 8pm to 10pm. Free. All welcome.

Monday 7 October: Online resources for family and local history, a practical workshop. Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Titanic Boulevard, Belfast. Each workshop will start with an orientation tour of PRONI, followed by an introduction to searching online resources. Free. Need to book. Fully Booked.

Tuesday 8 October: Lisburn, Belfast and the Growth of the Linen Industry, with Dr Ciaran Toal. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Lisburn branch. Venue: Bridge Community Centre, 50 Railway Street, Lisburn, BT 28 1XP. 7:30pm. Free. All welcome.

Tuesday 8 October: Ballycarry DNA Project Launch. Hosts: North of Ireland Family History Society with Ballycarry Community Association. Venue: Ballycarry Community Centre, 48 West Street, Ballycarry, Co Antrim, BT38 9HR. Free. 7:45pm. No booking required. All welcome.

Tuesday 8 October: From Tullamore to Trinidad – the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection as a genealogical source, with Robert McEvoy. Host: Genealogical Society of Ireland. Venue: Dun Laoghaire Further Education Institute, Cumberland Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. 8pm. All welcome. €4.

Tuesday 8 October: Irish Records – they all went up in smoke, didn't they? with Jill Williams FIGRS. Host: North Ayrshire Family History Society. Venue: Community Room of Largs Library, Allanpark Street, Largs, Scotland. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Tuesday 8 October: From Workhouse to Nursery: the Co Clare Mother & Baby Home 1922-1932, with Rita McCarthy. Host: Clare Archaeology and History Society. Venue: Old Ground Hotel, O'Connell Street, Ennis, Co Clare. 8pm. Free to members. Non-members €5. All welcome.

Wednesday 9 October: The Liffey's place in the development of Dublin, with Christopher Moriarty. Host: The Old Dublin Society. Venue: Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. All welcome. Free. 8pm.

Wednesday 9 October: Kilkenny famine experience, with Fin Dwyer. Host and venue: Home Rule Club, 3 John’s Quay, Kilkenny. Admission €5. All welcome. Tickets at the door. 8:30pm. Refreshments served.

Wednesday 9 October: A national treasure trove: using the National Archives for my research, a talk by Ryan Tubridy. Host and venue: National Archives of Ireland, Bishop Street, Dublin 8. 5:30pm. All welcome. Free, but need to book.

Thursday 10 October: Willie Redmond and the Great War, with John Green. Host: Antrim and Down Branch of the Western Front Association. Venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast, BT3 9HQ. 6:30pm to 8:45pm. £4 donation requested. All welcome.

Thursday 10 October: The Border and the Democratic Programme, with Berni Dwan, Padraig Yeates and Cormac Moore. Part of the Dublin in the Era of the Tan War series. Host: Near 90.3fm. Venue: Donaghmede Library, Donaghmede Post Office, Donaghmede Shopping Centre, Bóthar Dhomhnach Míde, Grange, Dublin 13. Doors open 6:15pm for 6:30pm start. Evening includes music. Free. All welcome.

Friday 11 October: Historical Ordnance Survey Maps, a practical workshop. Host and venue: Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Titanic Boulevard, Belfast. Free. 11am–1pm. Fully booked.

Saturday 12 October: Brickwalls, with Audrey Leonard. Host: Irish Genealogical Society International. Venue: IGSI Library and Research Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Mendota Heights, MN, USA. 10:30am to Noon. All welcome. Non members fee: $20. Details and pre-registration.

Saturday 12 October: Irish family history research, free help and guidance, with the Mayo Genealogy Group. Host and venue: National Museum of Ireland, Country Life, Turlough, Co Mayo. 11:30am - 1pm. All welcome. No booking required.

Saturday 12 October: Genealogy Seminar, a day seminar. Host and venue: Glasnevin Cemetery & Museum, Finglas Road, Dublin 11. 9:30am–4:30pm. Individual admission €40; two people admission €60. All welcome. Details and booking.

Friday 27 September 2019

25% discount on Ancestry DNA kits: Ireland & UK only

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Online debut for Irish parish, mostly CoI, collection

This week's FindMyPast Friday has delivered a cracker of a collection for Irish family historians: the Irish Parish Register Archive, ffolliott Collection.

Rosemary ffolliott was a renowned genealogist, author and editor who worked for the Genealogical Office, was the first woman to be a Fellow of the Irish Genealogical Research Society, and founded her own journal, The Irish Ancestor, which was published from 1969–1986. She was also an enthusiastic gatherer and transcriber of newspaper BMD announcements and parish registers.

This new collection is online for the first time and is catalogued by FindMyPast as three distinct record sets holding a total of more than 366,000 records of baptism and confirmation, marriage and burial.

The vast majority are from Church of Ireland registers, and just under half of them are from County Cork parishes. Other well-represented counties are Limerick (69,033 records); Dublin (34,819) and Monaghan (20,338). At the other end of the count, there are no records for Counties Antrim, Carlow, Clare, Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, LondonDerry and Roscommon. They span the 17th to 20th centuries.

Each search result provides a transcription and an image of Rosemary's original typed/hand-written transcription from the original or surviving registers.

Irish Parish Register Baptisms & Confirmations, ffolliott Collection: Nearly 120,000 transcriptions are in this collection, more than 57,000 of them from County Cork. The earliest date is 1625. Only 1,615 of the records are confirmations.

Irish Parish Register Marriages, ffolliott Collection: This collection is made up of just over 155,000 records dating from the 1640s to 1918. About 90% of them are from Counties Cork and Limerick alone.

Irish Parish Register Burials, ffolliott Collection: More than 95,000 records dating from the 1640s to 1931 are in this set. The largest single chunk (34,819 records) are from County Dublin, with 32,725 from County Cork.


1829 Sample of image from ffolliatt's Baptisms collection



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Monday 23 September 2019

Irish genealogy and history events, 23 Sept-6 Oct

Monday 23 September: NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All other services – exhibitions, cafe, Genealogy Advisory Service – operate as normal. (This is the last 'closure Monday' of the current phase of redevelopment.)

Monday 23 September: Poverty and poor relief in pre-Famine King’s County (Offaly), with Ciarán McCabe. Host and venue: Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Bury Quay, Tullamore, co Offaly. 8pm. All welcome.

Monday 23 September: Democratic revolution? The First Dáil, 1919–21, with Mel Farrell. Host and venue: Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society, Room T.1.17, Tara Building, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. 8pm.

Tuesday 24 September: Troublesome Howth women, with Philip O’Connor. Host: Howth Peninsula Heritage Society. Venue: Angling Centre, West Pier, Howth, Co Dublin. Non-members admission €5. All welcome. 8pm.

Tuesday 24 September: The Genealogy of an Irish Workhouse: Guardians, Staff & Inmates of the Poor Law, with Clare Doyle MAGI. Host and venue: National Archives of Ireland, Bishop Street, Dublin 8. Free. 6pm. No booking required. All welcome.

Tuesday 24 September: GRONI’s Records, with Kathie Walker. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Causeway Coast and Glens branch. Venue: Upper Main Hall, The Sandel Centre, Knocklynn Road, Coleraine, BT52 1WT. 8pm. All welcome.

Wednesday 25 September: Irish Family History Assistance. Host: Genealogical Society of Victoria. Venue: GSV Library, Level 6, 85 Queen St., Melbourne 3000, Australia. Experienced helpers in the library to offer advice on your Irish research. 10am to 4pm. Free for members. $30 non-members. Bookable one-hour appointments with a research consultant. Details.

Wednesday 25 September: Roe's Distillery, Thomas Street, and the Roe Family, with Sean J Murphy. Host: The Old Dublin Society. Venue: Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. All welcome. Free. 8pm.

Thursday 26 September: From Skibbereen to the Moon: Agnes Clarke and C19th astronomy, with Finola Finlay. Host: Duchas Clonakilty Heritage. Venue: The Parish Centre, Clonakilty, Co Cork. All welcome. 8:30pm. Free. Details.

Thursday 26 September: Irish emigration: New sources, new approaches, new results, with Professor (Emeritus) Cormac Ó Gráda. The Annual Brian Trainor Memorial Lecture. Hosts: PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation. Venue: PRONI, Titanic Boulevard, Belfast. 12:30pm to 1:30pm. Light refreshments will be available at the end of the presentation. Admission is free, however there is an option to make a donation to the Ulster Historical Foundation to fund future talks. All welcome. Details.

Thursday 26 September: Cashel, Conservation of the Walls, with Clare Lee. Part of the 'Within and without the walls' lecture series. Host: Cashel Heritage Forum. Venue: Parish Centre, Friar Street, Cashel, co Tipperary. 7.30pm. All are welcome, and admission is free.

Friday 27 September: Michael Collins’s Sligo jail journal, with Phelim Brady. Host: Sligo Field Club. Venue: Institute of Technology Education Centre, Sligo. All welcome. Non-members €5. 8pm.

Friday 27 September:
The exiled Waterford merchants and their families in France and Spain 1600–1800, with Liam Murphy. Host: Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society. Venue: St Patrick's Gateway Centre, Patrick St, Waterford City. 8pm. Members free; non-members €5. All welcome.

Friday 27 September to Sunday 29 September: Architecture Kerry 2019, a weekend festival celebrating Kerry's built environment, featuring guided tours of contemporary and historic buildings and interiors. All free events. All welcome. Overview and brochure.

Saturday 28 September: Remembering 1919 – War, Politics and Sport in Revolutionary Ireland, a day conference. Host: Maynooth University Decade of Commemorations Committee in association with the Department of History. Venue: Maynooth University, Renehan Hall, South Campus, Maynooth, Co Kildare. Registration fee (including refreshments & lunch): €20, payable in cash on the day. Schedule and booking.

Monday 30 September: All services and exhibitions operating at National Library of Ireland. After many months of Monday Reading Room and Manuscript Room closures, all areas of the NLI open.

Tuesday 1 October: The Victorian Church in Dublin, with Alastair Rowan. First of the Victorian Dublin Revealed lecture series. Hosts: The Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Heritage Office. Venue: Irish Georgian Society, City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2. Fee €15. All welcome. 6:30pm. Booking required. Brochure.

Tuesday 1 October: Who Do You Think You Are? An introduction to the genealogy resources of Donegal Co. Council's Culture Division. Host: Donegal Connect. Venue: Donegal Public Service Centre, Drumlonagher, Donegal Town. One-hour talks at 10am, 11:30am and 1pm. Free. Need to book. See details.

Wednesday 2 October: Jews and Protestants in Dublin in 1919, with Berni Dwan, Ida Milne and Melanie Brown. Part of the Dublin in the Era of the Tan War series. Host: Near 90.3fm. Venue: Ballymun Library, 9 Ballymun Rd, Ballymun, Dublin 9. Doors open 6:15 for 6:30pm start. Evening includes music. Free. All welcome.

Thursday 3 October: Family History Sources at the Registry of Deeds, a guided tour. Host: Property Registration Authority of Ireland. Venue: Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, Dublin 1. 1-2pm. Free but need to book your place. Fully Booked.

Thursday 3 October: Limerick and other 'Soviets', with Donal Fallon. Host: Dublin City Libraries. Venue: Ballyfermot Library, Ballyfermot Rd, Kylemore, Dublin. Admission free. All welcome. 6.30pm. Need to book.

Saturday 5 October: Aspects of Ireland’s Post War Conflict: The Life and Death of Terence MacSwiney. Host: Western Front Association. Venue: Room 103 of the Cork School of Commerce, Morrisons Island, Centre, Cork. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Saturday 5 October: An Irish house history, with Chris Paton. Host: Lanarkshire Family History Show. Venue: Motherwell Concert Hall, Windmillhill Street, Motherwell, Scotland ML1 1AB. Admission £2. Lecture £3. All show visitors and exhibitors welcome. 10:30am. No booking required. Details.

Saturday 5 October: Starting Your Genealogy, a day course, with Rosemary Sibbett. Host and Venue: North of Ireland Family History Society, C4 Research Centre and Library, Valley Business Centre, 67 Church Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT36 7LS. Free parking. Members and non-members welcome. Fee £14 Two sessions: 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm. Lunch not provided but there's a cafe in the centre. Need to book.

Friday 20 September 2019

BIG Saving! FindMyPast + free LivingDNA test (UK only)

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The PRO subscription gives access to all the collections in the Plus subscription with the addition of FindMyPast's Global records (US, Canada, Australia, NZ and much more), the British and Irish Newspapers collection of nearly 34 million pages, and PERSI. A 12-month PRO sub costs £156.

Under the current bundle offer, whichever subscription package you sign up for, a LivingDNA test is provided free. Even delivery of the kit is free. Bought independently today, the LivingDNA test, with post and packing, would cost you £108.95.

The bundle option will expire on Thursday 26 September. It's a great offer. Don't miss it.



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Thursday 19 September 2019

TCD launches Tabella: a free online Latin tuition app

Most genealogists encounter some Latin in the course of their research and while a high standard of understanding of the language isn't usually necessary, a decent grounding never goes amiss. Family historians without such a grounding may be interested to check out Tabella.ie, a new* site/app from Trinity College Dublin.

Tabella has been released as a free Living Latin project by the Classics Department. It offers free online tuition and uses video and short written lessons to teach Latin through guided reading. It's suitable for those with no former learning of the language as well as for those who may be rusty.

A work in progress, the site currently offers 16 lessons, with subjects such as legal latin, country life, love and hate, death and epitaphs etc, and (under the 'Resources' tab) a series of downloadable pdfs focusing on nouns, pronouns, verbs and the vocabulary used in the lessons.

Additionally, there is a 'Grammar' section which explores the rules and patterns of the language, broken down into 16 grammatical topics such as subordinate clauses, prepositions, sequencing of tenses etc.

If you've been looking to take your first dip into Latin, or need a refresher, check out the site and it's bite-sized lessons.


* I'm not sure when the site/app was launched – I've only just come across it – but the domain name dates only from the end of May.

Tuesday 17 September 2019

What's up with IrishGenealogy.ie?

As many Irish family historians are already aware, Ireland's main site for historical birth, marriage and death records – IrishGenealogy.ie – has been an on and off affair in the last two or three weeks. Most of the time it's been accessible. But it often hasn't, and sometimes the 'off' mode has lasted for more than one day at a time. When it has been working, it's frequently been decidedly sluggish.

To add to researchers' frustrations, the National Archives of Ireland's Genealogy website – with which IrishGenealogy.ie shares a server – has also been a bit giddy of late, although possibly less erratic than its buddy.

The managers of the site, which is run by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, tell me the IT team is aware there is a problem and they are working on it, but they have yet to identify the root cause.


Registry of Deeds - restricted access 18-19 September

The Property Registration Authority has advised that the Genealogical Room at the Registry of Deeds will be closed from 1pm to 4:30pm on both Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th September.

All other public areas and services at the Henrietta Street repository will operate as normal.

Monday 16 September 2019

Northern Ireland's Tithe Applotment Books to be released online this year

Scotland-based genealogist Chris Paton has returned from a stakeholder meeting at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) with the excellent news that the repository intends to make its Tithe Applotment Books collection for Northern Ireland available to researchers through its (free) online catalogue. These records will be downloadable in pdf format for each townland/parish, and should be online by the end of the year. You can find more details on Chris's Genes Blog.

The Tithe Applotment Books (TABs) record the results of a land survey taken to assess the tax payable by land occupiers to the Church of Ireland, and are an important source of information for pre-Famine Ireland. They don't cover urban areas, and some other lands were exempt.

TABs for the Republic of Ireland have been searchable online at both the National Archives of Ireland's Genealogy website and FamilySearch.org since 2012. The two sites share the same database, which is not, unfortunately, famed for its accuracy. The database does, however, include a small number of records for parishes that straddle the international border into counties Armagh, Derry, Down and Fermanagh.

As far as I'm aware, there's only one other online provider of TAB records, and that's Ancestry. This collection is searchable by name and provides the following information for each individual: name, townland, parish, county, and year of enumeration. The record count for this collection is a little over 600,000 but Ancestry's source notes claims there are about one million entries listed. It holds records from all historical counties of the island, so may well prove useful to researchers trying to identify likely locations for searching in PRONI's catalogue when the TAB pdfs are released.

RootsIreland.ie adds Derry householders from 1930

RootsIreland.ie has added more than 9,000 records transcribed from the 1930 Derry Almanac and Directory. This publication lists heads of household in Derry City and search results provide full name, house number and street and page number.

Given the gap in currently available census returns for Northern Ireland, which stretches from the all-island 1911 census to the pre-war 1939 National Register, this record set will be very useful for those researchers with family from the City in the early 1900s.

You'll need to subscribe to search these records. Go to the RootsIreland's Derry database and select ‘1930 Derry Almanac and Directory’ from the ‘Source’ drop down list.

You can see a full list of Derry sources here.


Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives: early September updates

The following files have been uploaded to Ireland Genealogy Projects (IGP) Archives in the first two weeks of September. As with all records held in the IGP Archives, the content of the files is donated by researchers, uploaded by volunteers and free to access by Irish family historians.

CAVAN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St. Brigid's (R.C.) Graveyard, Laragh

DUBLIN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Mount Jerome, Dublin - Part 235

KINGS/OFFALY Genealogy Archives - Land
Abstracts of the Deeds Inrolled in Chancery 1835-38

QUEENS/LAOIS Genealogy Archives - Land and Headstones
Abstracts of the Deeds Inrolled in Chancery 1835-37
Coolbanagher Old Graveyard (Transcribed)
St John the Evangelist (CoI) Coolbanagher (Transcribed)

LONGFORD Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Sacred Heart Cem., Carrickedmond (partial)

TIPPERARY Genealogy Archives - Church Records
Thurles Parish Marriages (R.C.) 1846-1849

WEXFORD Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St. Peter's, Glenbrien (Oylegate) (Updated)

KilkennyGraveyards explores burial places & traditions

If you have ancestral connections to Kilkenny, you might like to check out and follow KilkennyGraveyards.blogspot.com, a site which, as its name suggests, focuses on graveyards and burial places in that county.

It includes, but goes beyond, the transcription of headstones and memorials, exploring everything to do with burial traditions in the county. Stained glass window memorials are noted, for example, as are the individual styles and changing designs of stone masons; clues to the status and aspirations of the deceased or bereaved are examined in the position, quality and eulogies of memorials; and stories are told of the lives of some of those interred or commemorated in the burial sites.

KilkennyGraveyards was established more than three years ago by two experienced and respected Irish genealogists, Mary Casteleyn and Bernie Kirwan. You'll find more information about their approach to exploring graveyards in their first post, here. Since then, more than 60 well-illustrated features have been uploaded to the website, most of them with detailed observations about a particular graveyard, histories of individuals buried there, and an account of the surviving memorials (including transcriptions).

The most recent post, about Tifeaghna graveyard (RC parish of Sheffin, PLU Urlingford), is a good example of how Mary and Bernie examine and research a burial site, and how other researchers with current or ancestral family from Kilkenny will enjoy getting to know the blog.

Irish family history and heritage events, 16-29 Sept

Monday 16 September: NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All other services – exhibitions, cafe, Genealogy Advisory Service – will have a delayed start - 11am - but otherwise operate as normal.

Monday 16 September to Friday 4 October: The Limerick Soviet: the General Strike of 1919, an exhibition. A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week Event. Venue: Sean Lemass Public Library, Town Centre, Shannon, Co. Clare. Free exhibition during library opening hours. Details.

Monday 16 September: A Call to Militancy? with Whitehead Suffragette Society. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Larne branch. Venue: Larne Bowling & Lawn Tennis Club, 112-120 Glenarm Road, Larne, BT40 1DZ. 7:30pm. All welcome. Further details.

Tuesday 17 September: Guerrilla War in Clare, with Dr. Joe Power. A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week Event. Venue: DeValera Public Library, Harmony Row, Ennis, Co Clare. 6:30pm. Free. All welcome. Phone (065) 6846353 for more information.

Wednesday 18 September: "By heavens, Joe, but there are great men in Ireland still": Commandant Joseph Barrett (1888-1971), with Dr Paul O'Brien. A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week Event. Venue: Kilrush Public Library, O Gorman Street, Kilrush, Co. Clare. 6:30pm. Free lecture. All welcome. More information, Tel (065) 9051504.

Wednesday 18 September: Old Portadown, with Mary Hunter. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, North Armagh branch. Venue: Bleary Community Centre, 1 Deans Road, Bleary, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT66 7AS. 7:30pm. All welcome. Further details.

Wednesday 18 September: Gender and Democracy: The Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, with Dr Leeann Lane. Host: Tipperary County Archives. Venue: Clonmel Library, Emmet St, Burgagery-Lands East, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. 7pm. All are welcome and admission is free.

Wednesday 18 September: Louisa Marchioness of Waterford (1818 -1891): a bicentenary assessment and fresh discoveries, with Julian Walton. Host: Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan. Venue: Dungarvan Sailing Club, Quay St, Abbeyside, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. 8pm. All welcome. Admission €5.

Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 September: Genealogical Room afternoon closure. Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, Dublin 1. Public assess will be restricted frm 1pm to 4:30pm on both days. All other public areas will operate as normal.

Thursday 19 September: The Barrett Family 1888-1971, with Dr Paul O'Brien. Host: Clare Roots Society. Venue: Maguire Suite, Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co Clare. 8pm. All welcome.

Friday 20 September: Culture Night returns to towns and cities across the island of Ireland, with 4000+ FREE late-night cultural events taking place in 1600+ venues. Search events.

Friday 20 September: Irish family history, a free workshop with Lynn Brady. Host: Glasnevin Trust. Venue: Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Finglas Road, Dublin 11. 7pm. Free. Fully booked.

Saturday 21 September: Genealogy Tips and Tricks, with Marie Scalisi; Finding Irish Place of Origin in U.S. Records, with Kathleen McGee; and Ask the Expert one-to-one consultations. All free, and with light refreshments. Host: Irish Family History Forum. Venue: Bethpage Public Library, 47 Powell Ave., Bethpage, NY 11714, USA. 10am to 12:30pm. All welcome. Details.

Saturday 21 September: Irish Genealogy 101 – Let’s Start at the Beginning, with Tom Rice CG. Host: Irish Genealogical Research International. Venue: Minnesota Genealogy Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Mendota Heights, MN 55120, USA. Need to register. Fee $20. 11:30am to 1pm. Details.

Saturday 21 September: The Goodwin Family of Hell's Kitchen – a case study tracking an Irish-American family from the 19th century to the present, with Kevin Cassidy. Host: WISE Family History Society. Venue: Gates Room, Central Denver Public Library, 10 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, Colorado, USA. Free. 2:30pm–4pm, following the CGS CIG program.

Monday 16 September: NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All other services – exhibitions, cafe, Genealogy Advisory Service – operate as normal. (This is the last 'closure Monday' of the current phase of redevelopment.)

Monday 23 September: Poverty and poor relief in pre-Famine King’s County (Offaly), with Ciarán McCabe. Host and venue: Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Bury Quay, Tullamore, co Offaly. 8pm. All welcome.

Monday 23 September: Democratic revolution? The First Dáil, 1919–21, with Mel Farrell. Host and venue: Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society, Room T.1.17, Tara Building, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. 8pm.

Tuesday 24 September: Troublesome Howth women, with Philip O’Connor. Host: Howth Peninsula Heritage Society. Venue: Angling Centre, West Pier, Howth, Co Dublin. Non-members admission €5. All welcome. 8pm.

Tuesday 24 September: The Genealogy of an Irish Workhouse: Guardians, Staff & Inmates of the Poor Law, with Clare Doyle MAGI. Host and venue: National Archives of Ireland, Bishop Street, Dublin 8. Free. 6pm. No booking required. All welcome.

Tuesday 24 September: GRONI’s Records, with Kathie Walker. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Causeway Coast and Glens branch. Venue: Upper Main Hall, The Sandel Centre, Knocklynn Road, Coleraine, BT52 1WT. 8pm. All welcome.

Wednesday 25 September: Irish Family History Assistance. Host: Genealogical Society of Victoria. Venue: GSV Library, Level 6, 85 Queen St., Melbourne 3000, Australia. Experienced helpers in the library to offer advice on your Irish research. 10am to 4pm. Free for members. $30 non-members. Bookable one-hour appointments with a research consultant. Details.

Wednesday 25 September: Roe's Distillery, Thomas Street, and the Roe Family, with Sean J Murphy. Host: The Old Dublin Society. Venue: Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. All welcome. Free. 8pm.

Thursday 26 September: From Skibbereen to the Moon: Agnes Clarke and C19th astronomy, with Finola Finlay. Host: Duchas Clonakilty Heritage. Venue: The Parish Centre, Clonakilty, Co Cork. All welcome. 8:30pm. Free. Details.

Thursday 26 September: Irish emigration: New sources, new approaches, new results, with Professor (Emeritus) Cormac Ó Gráda. The Annual Brian Trainor Memorial Lecture. Hosts: PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation. Venue: PRONI, Titanic Boulevard, Belfast. 12:30pm to 1:30pm. Light refreshments will be available at the end of the presentation. Admission is free, however there is an option to make a donation to the Ulster Historical Foundation to fund future talks. All welcome. Details.

Friday 27 September: Michael Collins’s Sligo jail journal, with Phelim Brady. Host: Sligo Field Club. Venue: Institute of Technology Education Centre, Sligo. All welcome. Non-members €5. 8pm.

Friday 27 September to Sunday 29 September: Architecture Kerry 2019, a weekend festival celebrating Kerry's built environment, featuring guided tours of contemporary and historic buildings and interiors. All free events. All welcome. Overview and brochure.

Saturday 28 September: Remembering 1919 – War, Politics and Sport in Revolutionary Ireland, a day conference. Host: Maynooth University Decade of Commemorations Committee in association with the Department of History. Venue: Maynooth University, Renehan Hall, South Campus, Maynooth, Co Kildare. Registration fee (including refreshments & lunch): €20, payable in cash on the day. Schedule and booking.

Friday 13 September 2019

RCB Library extends its collection of books in Irish

The opening of ‘Cúinne Caird’, a collection of Irish books and related materials of the late Bishop Donald Caird (1925-2017), will take place in the RCB Library tomorrow, Saturday 14 September, at Noon.

This printed collection was part of a larger collection of related archival and photographic materials and was presented to the Library by his widow, Nancy. A special corner of the Library has been created and the books will be exhibited in his memory in a cabinet commissioned from Shane Duffly.

"As the Library did not have many books in Irish in its collections, it was decided to keep the collection together in a dedicated section," says Robert Gallagher, Library Administrator. "I began the project by organising the books in order of the date they were published and each book was recorded on our digital catalogue."

Bishop Donald Caird was a long-time member of the RCB Library. He often visited throughout his career and subsequently during his retirement. He was a member of Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (the Irish Guild of the Church) since 1943. In 2010, he was awarded the Ghradam an Phiarsaigh prize, which is central to the ‘Cúinne Caird’.

This event has been organised by the RCB Library and Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise.

FindMyPast adds Irish Boundary Commission Records

FindMyPast has digitised the Irish Boundary Commission, 1924-1925 collection held by the National Archives (UK). This Commission was set up to determine the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland*.

This sample page (click for enlarged image) shows the
preference for titles and initials over first names
While copies of the records are quite freely available online, I think this the first time they've been indexed, opening up their content to a wider audience.

More than 47,000 records, made up of minutes, papers and reports, correspondence, and records of oral and written evidence, are held in the collection and can now be searched by place and name. The index offers searches for eight of the nine Ulster counties – Antrim, Armagh, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, LondonDerry, Monaghan and Tyrone – plus Dublin.

Among the highlights of the collection is a numerical census giving names of heads of household in Castlederg, Clogher and Dungannon Unions and Omagh Urban District.

When searching the online collection, FindMyPast advises that formal documentation of the period tended to use titles and/or initials rather than first names. 'For example, if your search is unsuccessful for William Smith, try Mr Smith or Lord Smith. Alternatively, if your search is unsuccessful for Mary Smith and she was married to John Smith, try Mrs John Smith or alternatively Mrs Smith. If needed, you can narrow your results by including additional search criteria such as a year, location name or county.'

* The Commission was intended to research, take evidence and subsequently recommend any alterations needed to the border. Its final report was never published, so the border remained as originally created. You can read a detailed feature about the Commission and its aftermath, published in History Ireland magazine, here.

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Wednesday 11 September 2019

Autumn 2019 Family History courses in Ireland

It's Autumn – time to tackle a new skill – and there's a good number of family history courses due to start across Ireland. Not all of them start in September, and, while they may have similar sounding titles, there's a lot of variation in how they cover the topic, so be sure to read the online details to ensure the course is what you are expecting.

If a course starts next week, would-be participants should contact the provider to enrol without delay.


BELFAST

City Centre
Irish Genealogy Essentials, a five-day course running 4 November to 8 November inclusive, run by the Ulster Historical Foundation, The Corn Exchange, 31 Gordon Street, Belfast. Classroom based sessions covers main and lesser known sources. The course includes assisted research at PRONI and a one-to-one consultation to help move your research forward. Course fee: £449.99. Details.


COUNTY CORK

Cork City
An introduction to family history. Are you interested in tracing your family history, but don’t know where to start? This course, held on Mondays at Ashton School, Blackrock Road, Cork City, will provide you with the practical know-how to find your family records. Basic Internet knowledge required. Tutor: Karen O’Riordan BA. Starts 23 September. 8-week course. 7.00–9.00pm. Fee: €95. Brochure.

Midleton
Research your Family History, a 6-week course starting on 1 October, will be held at St Colmans College, Midleton, Co Cork. Classes will take place on Tuesdays, 7.30-9.30pm. Course fee €80. Details of the class and enrolment here (catalogued under Empowerment, for some reason).


COUNTY DUBLIN

City Centre
Diploma In Family History. This 10-week course is tutored by John Grenham MAGI FIGRS at City Colleges, Wicklow House, 84-88 South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2. Both classroom based (fee from €995) and online (from €895) are available. 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Course starts Thursday 26 September. Syllabus and details.

Crumlin
Genealogy and Family History. This 10-week introductory course will run on Mondays, 7:30pm to 9pm, at Crumlin College, Crumlin Road, Dublin 12. It will start on 16 September and the fee is €120. Download the brochure for details of the class and enrolment.

Liberties
Genealogy, a 5-week course, will be held at Liberties College, Bull Alley Street, Dublin 8 on Wednesdays from 23 October to 27 November inclusive. 7pm–9pm. Fee: €40. The course is for those who want to discover their ancestry and connect with past generations of their family. It will show delegates how to find surviving relatives with whom they may have lost contact (or, indeed, never met) due to a variety of circumstances such as generational emigration or adoption. Details.

Malahide
Irish genealogy - How to research your family history, with Claire Bradley. This beginner class at Malahide Community School covers census; birth, death and marriage certificates; parish registers; newspapers; wills; land records; military records and DNA testing. No prior knowledge is required but ability to use a computer and the internet is essential. Tuesday evenings, 7:30pm to 9:30pm, from 17 September. Fee €110. Details and enrolment.


LIMERICK

City Centre
Tracing your family history is a 10-week course suitable for anyone wishing to develop a broad array of historical research skills. Designed for those with any level of interest in history, the programme each week will include detailed instructions into the tools and sources that are available to conduct personal, family and community based history research and projects. Held at Limerick College of Further Education, Mulgrave St, Limerick City on Tuesdays, 7pm to 9:30pm. Fee:€130. Details.

University of Limerick Campus

The University's Certificate in History of Family & Genealogical Methods is now closed for 2019-20 enrolment.

Tuesday 10 September 2019

New/updated USA genealogy records since mid-August

Are you researching ancestors from Ireland who emigrated and settled in the United States? If so, you need to keep up with all the genealogical releases by the major database suppliers. This can be difficult when, as in this last four or five weeks, nearly 50 new collections were uploaded online and millions of records were added to at least 26 existing record-sets.

To help you keep up with the steady stream of record releases – any of which could, potentially, hold vital ancestral details or family history colour – here's a brief round-up of the latest new USA collections and updates.

The figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records in the collection, or, where stated, the total number of records following the recent update.

NEW COLLECTIONS

Ancestry
Salem & Beverly, Massachusetts, Crew Lists & Shipping Articles, 1797-1934 (215,124)
Massachusetts, Boston, Crew Lists, 1811-1921 Immigration & Emigration (335,821)
U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Records, 1943-1947 (1,070)
U.S., Panama Canal Zone, Employment Records and Sailing lists, 1884-1937 (118,532)
New York, State Employment Cards & Peddlers' Licenses, 1840-1966 (709,382)
Wisconsin, Employment Records, 1903-1988 (47,717)

Family Search
Alabama, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (268,697 records + 766,663 images)
Alaska, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (22,410)
California, Los Angeles, Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Index, 1877-1989 (4,445)
Colorado, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (283,562)
Connecticut, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (478,703)
Delaware, WW2 Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 (74,179)
District of Columbia, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (245,072)
Florida, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (536,621)
Hawaii, Births and Baptisms, 1843-1909 (31,568)
Hawaii, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (138,956)
Idaho, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (138,954)
Maine, Kennebec County, Togus National Cemetery Records (4,428)
Maryland, WW2 Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 532,405 542,647
Minnesota, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947 693,535 694,725
Missouri, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 952,820 958,644
Nebraska, WW2 Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945310,174 297,841
Nevada, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (35,949)
New Mexico, WW2 Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 (140,702)
New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956 (4,749,222)
North Carolina, Church Records, 1700-1970 (70,086)
Ohio, WWI Index and Return Cards, 1916-1920 (100,468)
Oklahoma, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (604,280)
Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Naturalization Index, 1906-1990 (116,726)
South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, Birth Registers, 1901-1926 (13,419)
South Carolina, Colleton County Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951 (22,417)
Utah, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947 (144,519)
Utah, Cemetery Abstracts (125,183)
Virgin Islands, WW2 Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945 (5,625)
Virginia, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (762,434)
West Virginia, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (521,022)
Wyoming, WW2 Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945 (66,012)

MyHeritage
Pennsylvania Death Index, 1906-1964 (6,562,484)


UPDATES

FindMyPast
Cincinnati Baptisms  (183,000)
Cincinnati Marriages  (183,000)
Cincinnati Burials  (update numbers unknown, total now 296,596)
Cincinnati Congregational  (1,200)
Maryland wills and probate records PDF collection/nearly 4,000 pages.
Maryland Prerogative Court and County records, Index (107,000)

Ancestry
US School Yearbooks, 1900-1999  (updated total 320,708,311)
Montana, State Deaths, 1907-2016  (2,369,196)
New Hampshire, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1832-1945 (updated total 78,420)
New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-2017  (4,990,815).
US Find A Grave index  (1,277,168)

FamilySearch
Arizona, WW2 Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945  (141,121)
Arkansas, Sevier County, Birth Records, 1914-1923  (22)
California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994  (8,839)
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 (912)
Pennsylvania, Eastern District Petitions for Naturalization, 1795-1931  (179,267)
United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968  (104,071)
Arkansas Confederate Pensions, 1901-1929  (18,918)
Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998  (1,773)
Iowa, Monroe County, Card Index of BMDs from Newspaper Clippings, 1898-2015  (1,706)
Iowa, Old Age Tax Assistance Records, 1934-1958  (84,429)
Missouri, Jackson County Voter Registration Records, 1928-1956  (97,491)
Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949  (1,438)
New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936  (4,074)

AmericanAncestors
Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston,1789-1920 database (searchable):  Joining the collection were parish registers for Sts. Peter and Paul in South Boston, St. Mary of the Annunciation in Melrose, Sacred Heart  in East Boston, St. Bridget in Abington, Sacred Heart in Newton,  both St Peter and St Gregory in Dorchester, and each of the following parishes in Roxbury: Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Patrick, and St. Philip, St. Francis de Sales.
Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston,1789-1920 database (Image only):  Added to the browse collection were more than 2,300 new page images from the registers of Lady of Good Voyage in Gloucester and St. Joseph in Lynn.


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Monday 9 September 2019

Irish genealogy, history & culture events, 9-22 Sept

Monday 9 September: NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All other services/exhibitions/cafe, including Genealogy Advisory Service, operate as normal.

Monday 9 September: Making Sense of the Census, with Roddy Hegarty. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Newtownabbey Branch. Venue: Glengormley High School, Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim BT36 5HP. 7pm–9pm. Free. All welcome. Details.

Tuesday 10 September: Some things never change! 40 years of family history research, with branch members. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Lisburn branch. Venue: Bridge Community Centre, 50 Railway Street, Lisburn, BT28 1XP. All welcome. Details.

Tuesday 10 September: Researching WWI military and naval records of Irish soldiers and sailors, with Gerard White. Host: Genealogical Society of Ireland. Venue: Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute, Cumberland St., Dún Laoghaire, Dublin. All welcome. 8pm. Admission €3.

Wednesday 11 September: Unequal treatment of IRA widows reflected in the social hierarchy of the Free State, with Padraig Yeates. Host: The Old Dublin Society. Venue: Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2. All welcome. Free. 8pm.

Saturday 14 September: Two workshops: Tracing your Irish Ancestry - for Beginners and Refreshers (10:30am–1pm), and Moving on with your research, for intermediates (2pm–5pm), with Jill Williams FIGRS and Roz McCutcheon FIGRS. Host and venue: Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Gosport Road, London EC1. Workshop fee: £20. Details. Both workshops fully booked.

Saturday 14 September: The War of Independence in Co Clare: reassessment of David Fitzpatrick’s Politics and Irish Life 1913-1921: provincial experience of war and revolution, a History Ireland Hedge School. Host: Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week. Venue: Temple Gate Hotel, The Square, Ennis, Co Clare. 2pm–3.15pm. Roundtable discussion with History Ireland editor Tommy Graham (chair), Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, Eve Morrison, Cécile Gordon and Tomás Mac Con Mara. Free, but capacity limited. For more information, tel (065) 6899082.

Saturday 14 September: Magic: Using Griffiths Valuation and Google Earth to Locate Irish Origins and Locations, with Fern Wilcox. Host: Irish Genealogical Society International. Venue: Library and Research Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Rd., Mendota Heights, MN, USA. $20. 10:30–noon. Details.

Saturday 14 September: Walking Tour of a Nineteenth Century Irish Neighborhood. Host: Irish Railroad Workers Museum. Meet Hollins Roundhouse Neighborhood, 900 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21223, USA. 11am to 12:30pm. Free but need to book.

Sunday 15 September: T E Lawrence – his career and Irish connections, with Dr David Murphy. Host: Meath Archaelogical and Historical Society. Venue: St John's Church, Main St, Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath. 3pm. All welcome. Voluntary contribution appreciated. Details.

Monday 16 September: NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day to facilitate the Library's continuing redevelopment of the premises. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. All other services – exhibitions, cafe, Genealogy Advisory Service – will have a delayed start - 11am - but otherwise operate as normal.

Monday 16 September to Friday 4 October: The Limerick Soviet: the General Strike of 1919, an exhibition. A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week Event. Venue: Sean Lemass Public Library, Town Centre, Shannon, Co. Clare. Free exhibition during library opening hours. Details.

Monday 16 September: A Call to Militancy? with Whitehead Suffragette Society. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Larne branch. Venue: Larne Bowling & Lawn Tennis Club, 112-120 Glenarm Road, Larne, BT40 1DZ. 7:30pm. All welcome. Further details.

Tuesday 17 September: Guerrilla War in Clare, with Dr. Joe Power. A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week Event. Venue: DeValera Public Library, Harmony Row, Ennis, Co Clare. 6:30pm. Free. All welcome. Phone (065) 6846353 for more information.

Wednesday 18 September: "By heavens, Joe, but there are great men in Ireland still": Commandant Joseph Barrett (1888-1971), with Dr Paul O'Brien. A Clare County Library Decade of Centenaries History Week Event. Venue: Kilrush Public Library, O Gorman Street, Kilrush, Co. Clare. 6:30pm. Free lecture. All welcome. More information, Tel (065) 9051504.

Wednesday 18 September: Old Portadown, with Mary Hunter. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, North Armagh branch. Venue: Bleary Community Centre, 1 Deans Road, Bleary, Craigavon, Co Armagh, BT66 7AS. 7:30pm. All welcome. Further details.

Wednesday 18 September: Gender and Democracy: The Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, with Dr Leeann Lane. Host: Tipperary County Archives. Venue: Clonmel Library, Emmet St, Burgagery-Lands East, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. 7pm. All are welcome and admission is free.

Wednesday 18 September: Louisa Marchioness of Waterford (1818 -1891): a bicentenary assessment and fresh discoveries, with Julian Walton. Host: Waterford County Museum, Dungarvan. Venue: Dungarvan Sailing Club, Quay St, Abbeyside, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. 8pm. All welcome. Admission €5.

Thursday 19 September: The Barrett Family 1888-1971, with Dr Paul O'Brien. Host: Clare Roots Society. Venue: Maguire Suite, Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co Clare. 8pm. All welcome.

Friday 20 September: Culture Night returns to towns and cities across the island of Ireland, with 4000+ FREE late-night cultural events taking place in 1600+ venues. Search events.

Friday 20 September: Irish family history, a free workshop with Lynn Brady. Host: Glasnevin Trust. Venue: Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Finglas Road, Dublin 11. 7pm. Free. Fully booked.

Saturday 21 September: Genealogy Tips and Tricks, with Marie Scalisi; Finding Irish Place of Origin in U.S. Records, with Kathleen McGee; and Ask the Expert one-to-one consultations. All free, and with light refreshments. Host: Irish Family History Forum. Venue: Bethpage Public Library, 47 Powell Ave., Bethpage, NY 11714, USA. 10am to 12:30pm. All welcome. Details.

Saturday 21 September: Irish Genealogy 101 – Let’s Start at the Beginning, with Tom Rice CG. Host: Irish Genealogical Research International. Venue: Minnesota Genealogy Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Mendota Heights, MN 55120, USA. Need to register. Fee $20. 11:30am to 1pm. Details.

Saturday 21 September: The Goodwin Family of Hell's Kitchen – a case study tracking an Irish-American family from the 19th century to the present, with Kevin Cassidy. Host: WISE Family History Society. Venue: Gates Room, Central Denver Public Library, 10 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, Colorado, USA. Free. 2:30pm–4pm, following the CGS CIG program.

Friday 6 September 2019

New/updated British genealogy records since mid-Aug

Online database suppliers providing genealogical records for England, Scotland and Wales have had a busy four weeks, uploading both new and updated British family history records.

NEW COLLECTIONS

Ancestry
North Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1847-1969. This index holds 714,769 entries.

Scotland, North Lanarkshire, Poor Law Applications and Registers, 1849-1917, With 230,468 entries, this collection of applications and general registers covers institutions in Bothwell, Cambasnethan, Dalziel, New Monkland and Shotts. See also this useful blogpost from Ancestry which provides additional information about the record-set.

Pembrokeshire, Wales, Electoral Registers, 1740-1978. The collection holds 1,045,222 indexed entries from every fifth year during the period. No registers were produced during the war years 1916, 1917 and 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944.

Bristol, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935. These 1,045,461 records are from parishes in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. See the browse options for coverage by parish and date.

Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1918. These 1,847,025 records are from parishes in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. See the browse options for coverage by parish and date.

Bristol, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1994. These 284,422 records are from parishes in Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. See the browse options for coverage by parish and date.

Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 This collection of 1,915,478 records are from parishes acrss Bristol, Gloucestershire and Somerset. See the browse options for coverage by parish and date.


Family Search
England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers, 1538-1983. Contains 126,104 transcriptions of baptismal, marriage, and burial records from the Church of England in the county of Huntingdonshire. Images available to view only at Family History Centers and affiliate Libraries.

England, Cambridge Parish Registers, 1538-1983. Contains 162,917 transcriptions of baptismal, marriage, and burial records from the Church of England in the county of Cambridgeshire. Images available to view only at Family History Centers and affiliate Libraries.


FindMyPast
Scotland, Court & Criminal Database. This collection holds more than 28,000 Crown Office Precognitions and High Court Trial Papers from 1801–1917, the Fife Kalendar of Convicts, and index to many of the Courts in Fife from 1708 to 1909, as well as the High Court Records. Results include transcript plus image of the original document.

Church Of Scotland Ministers 1560-1949. The 8-volume collection holds more than 4,700 entries.

Isle Of Man Roll Of Honour WW1. Published in 1934 by the War Pensions Committee, this roll holds the transcribed details of 1,900 Manx casualties.

Yorkshire School Logs. Both pupils and teachers are included in these 137,000 transcripts from school rolls from 63 schools in the county's West Riding. They date from 1862 and 1959.


British Newspaper Archives (and shared with FindMyPast)
All but the first two in the list were published in Scotland.
The Daily Citizen, Manchester
Holmes’ Brewing Trade Gazette, published in Leeds
Alloa Journal
Clyde Bill of Entry and Shipping List, 1874–1914, Glasgow
ForFar Herald
Dalkeith Advertiser
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/daily-review-edinburgh
Forres News and Advertiser
Northern Scot and Moray, Nairn Express
Devon Valley Tribune
Renfrewshire Independent
Hawick Express
Coatbridge Express
Banffshire Advertiser
Leven Mail
Ayrshire Post
Wishaw Press
Irvine Herald
North British Agriculturalist, Edinburgh
Montrose Standard
Erskdale and Liddesdale
Galloway News and Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser


UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry
England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918. Just under 91,000 records, including images have been added. All date 1917-1918.


FindMyPast
Britain, Knights of the Realm and Commonwealth. The index has been updated with an additional 14,000+ records

Scottish Catholic baptisms. More than 236,000 records from 146 parishes have been added.

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages. Topped up with 129,000 records.

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Burials. An additional 16,000 burial records.

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records Some 114,000 records have been added, topping up this large collection of 456,022 congregational records covering all eight Scottish Catholic dioceses. The collection includes registers of confirmations and communion recipients, as well as parish lists, seat rentals, and lists of people who converted to Catholicism.

Scotland, Newspaper Birth Notices. More than 121,000 records (transcriptions and images) added.

Scotland, Newspaper Death Reports & Obituaries. More than half a million reports and obits added in transcription and image format.

Scotland, Newspaper Marriage & Anniversary Notices. More than 201,000 entries added, with transcriptions and images.

Lancashire Wills & Probate 1457-1858 More than 26,000 new records have been added to this index.


FamilySearch
England, Herefordshire Bishop’s Transcripts, 1583-1898. Just over 2,000 records added.

England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963 Nearly 49,000 extra records.


The Genealogist
Map Explorer now includes the Charles Booth Poverty Maps of London, 1898-1899


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