Friday 31 January 2020

IGRS adds 5,000+ entries to Early Irish Marriages Index

The Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) has added more than 5,000 marriage records to its exclusive Early Irish Marriage Index.

The Society's Early Irish Births and Early Irish Deaths Indexes have also been updated, with 519 and 334 entries respectively.

Collectively, these three databases now hold 346,094 names.

About 500 of the new entries relate to marriage settlements registered at the Registry of Deeds.

Roz McCutcheon FIGRS, who founded and leads the IGRS Early Births, Marriages and Deaths Indexes projects, advises that searching the Registry of Deeds for marriage settlements is fairly straightforward. "Most settlements are dated a few days before the actual ceremony and registered within a few months," she says. "However, in book 297, one pre-marriage settlement took 26 years to be registered (RoD ref: 297/642/196514). This pertained to the union of Thomas Taylor & Ann Berresford, both of Dublin.

"As if that wasn’t hard enough for any determined researcher to locate, another in the same book (RoD ref: 297/383/196483) took 46 years! This was the marriage of George Little and Mary Boyd, both of County Tyrone, which had taken place in 1727; it wasn’t registered until 1773, by which time most of the parties had died.

"This sort of delay underlines the importance of indexing events like these in a database such as the Early Irish BMD Indexes.”

The bulk of the other marriage events in this update are supplied by the surviving indexes, and pre-1922 abstracts, relating to Marriage Licence Bonds from the Dioceses of Down, Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin. In addition, searches at the Registry of Deeds also yielded a smaller, but significant number of birth events, which can be deduced by the ages noted for children named as ‘lives’ in leases.

Access to the Early Irish Marriage Index is completely free to all researchers. Non-members can also make free name searches in the Births and Deaths indexes. You can find out more on the IGRS website at IrishAncestors.ie.
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Thursday 30 January 2020

NIFHS releases Spring workshop & courses programme

The North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS) has a new series of talks, workshops and courses lined up for Spring. They're good value at (typically) £8 for a 1 session course; £14 for a 2 session course and £18 for a 3-session course.

Each of the classes is held in the Honneyman Room of the Society's Research Centre in Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim. It's a convenient location, and parking is free.

A summary of the programme is below. For more details about each workshop or course, see the NIFHS website.


Saturday 22 February - Using the new tree on Family Tree DNA – 2 hours, daytime

Tuesday 25 February – Tracing relatives from the Belfast Shipyards – 2 hours, evening

Thursday 27 February – Using the new tree on Family Tree DNA – Fully Booked

Saturday 29 February – Family Tree Maker: basics and benefits – 2 hours, daytime

Tuesday 3 March – Family Finder 1 – Three 2-hour evening sessions, consecutive Tuesdays

Thursday 5 March – Using land records – 2 hours, evening

Monday 9 March – Family Finder 2 – Three 2-hour evening sessions, consecutive Mondays

Tuesday 24 March – JSTOR – A free resource for NIFHS members – 1-hour lunchtime

Saturday 28 March – The advantages of MT-DNA – 2 hours, daytime

Tuesday 31 March – Emigration to Australia and New Zealand – 2 hours, daytime

Thursday 9 April – Graveyards – 2 hours, evening

Saturday 4 May – Make the most of your Autosomal DNA results – Two 2-hour sessions on 1 day

Saturday 9 May – Using WikiTree – 2 hours, daytime

Tuesday 12 May – It’s all about me – 2 hours, daytime

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Wednesday 29 January 2020

Ireland's 1926 Census: another call for early release

Catriona Crowe, the National Archives of Ireland's former Special Projects manager responsible for bringing the 1901 and 1911 censuses online in 2008-2010, made another public demand for the 1926 Census of Ireland to be released without delay.
https://www.change.org/p/leo-varadkar-release-the-1926-irish-census
The 1926 census was the first such survey carried out in Ireland following the partition of Northern Ireland.

It is not due to be released until 100 years have elapsed, even though legislation for such a 'closed' period had not been introduced at the time the census was taken.

Catriona was on a discussion panel at the first Out of the Ashes lecture at Trinity College Dublin on Monday evening (the series explores themes of cultural loss and recovery), and spoke to the 400-strong audience about the 1922 fire at the Four Courts building which destroyed so much of Ireland's genealogical heritage including nearly all the surviving early-to-mid-19th-century census returns. The two early 20th-century censuses were spared the flames and were released to the public – early – many years ago.

Promises were made by politicians in 2012 that the 1926 census returns would be released in time for the 1916 centenary ommemorations. Despite getting very close to the green button, it didn't happen.

Catriona encouraged the Out of the Ashes attendees to write to the new Taoiseach, whoever that may be after the 8 February election, asking them to “use their power over the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to open the 1926 Census as soon as possible.”

You can read about the event, and view a video of the presentations, on the TCD website, here.

And if you haven't already done so, you might also like to sign the Council of Irish Genealogical Organisation's Petition for the early release of the 1926 Census. Click the image above.

For more details about the 1926 Census, the informaation it will provide to genealogists, and the fight to get it released, see Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com
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Monday 27 January 2020

Cork North Cathedral launches register search facility

If you have ancestral connections to Cork City you'll be interested to note that the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne (also known as North Cathedral) is now offering an online service to researchers seekiing information from their parish registers.

The fee for all requests is €20, payable by credit card online.

The registers held are among the earliest in the country. They date from 1731 for baptisms, 1748 for marriages, and from 1870 for confirmations.

Up to 1880, these baptism and marriage registers are already imaged and freely available via the National Library of Ireland's RC Registers site at registers.nli.ie. That same collection is indexed and free to search and view via FindMyPast (you need only to be registered with the site), but some researchers may have queries that reach beyond what those sites can answer, or they may want post-1880 information or a search of the Confirmations register.

Well, now such a route is available, provided you can explain it in less than 750 characters!

Here's the link to the Query Form: https://www.corkcathedral.ie/genealogy/

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Irish genealogy, history & heritage events, 27 Jan - 9 Feb

Monday 27 January: Impressions of a visitor to Dublin in 1806–7, with Angela Byrne. From accounts of everyday life in Ireland following the 1798 & 1803 rebellions. Venue and host: Blanchardstown Library, The Civic Centre, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15. 6:30-7:30pm. Booking essential: 01 890 5560.

Monday 27 January: All that remained’— The Four Courts Blaze of 1922, a panel discussion with Catriona Crowe, Zoe Reid and Lar Joye. Host: Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. 6:30pm to 8pm. The event is free but registration is essential.

Tuesday 28 January: Freeholders, Electors and Absent Voters, with Ian Montgomery. Host: North of Ireland FHS, Belfast branch. Venue: C. S. Lewis Room, Holywood Arches Library, 4-12 Holywood Road, Belfast, BT4 1NT. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Tuesday 28 January: Rev Traill’s Survey of Ballintoy Parish, with Robert Corbett. Host: North of Ireland FHS, Causeway branch. Venue: Sandal Centre, Main Hall. Knocklynn Rd, Coleraine BT521WT. 8-10pm. Free. All welcome.

Tuesday 28 January: My Grandfather's 1870s Sojourn in Australia, with Michael Tubridy. Host: Kilrush and District Historical Society. Venue: Teach Ceoil, Grace Street, Kilrush, Co Clare. 8pm. All welcome. Members free. Non-members €5 at the door.

Wednesday 29 January: The causes of crime in mid-Antrim in the nineteenth century, with Dr Elaine Farrell. (+ AGM). Host: Carrickfergus & District Historical Society. Venue: The Dobbs Room, Town Hall, Joymount, Carrickfergus, BT38 7DL. 8pm. All welcome.

Thursday 30 January: The Hore family of Dungarvan, with Julian Walton. Part of the Dunhill History Lectures Series XIV. Venue: Dunhill Multi-Education Centre (opposite GAA grounds), Dunhill Ecopark, Co Waterford. 8pm. Followed by Q&A and light refreshments. All welcome.

Thursday 30 January: DNA talk for beginners, with Martin McDowell. Host: North of Ireland Family Family History Society, Ballymena Branch. Venue: Michelin Arts Workshop, Braid Arts Centre, 1-29 Bridge St, Ballymena BT43 5EJ. 7:15pm. All welcome.

Friday 31 January: Crisis and long-term effects – the 1918 ti 1919 influenza pandemic in Waterford and Ireland, with Dr Ida Milne. 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 31 January: Portumna Workhouse and its notorious master, Henry Ogle, with David Broderick. Venue: Borrisoleigh Community Centre, Pallas Street, Borrisoleigh, Co Tipperary. 8pm. Admission €5. All welcome.

Monday 3 February: The L’Derry & Lough Swilly Railway, with Richard Lyons. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Foyle branch. Venue: Lecture Room of Derry City’s Central Library, 35 Foyle Street, Londonderry, BT48 6AL. All welcome. Free. 7pm.

Monday 3 February: 18th-Century Sources for Family History Research, with William Roulston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Killyleagh branch. Venue: Killyleagh Masonic Hall, 50 High Street, Killyleagh, Co Down, BT30 9QF. Free. All welcome. 8pm.

Monday 3 February: Michael Collins, a film screening, introduced by Dr Patrick Murphy and with Q&A discussion after screening. Host: Nottingham Irish Studies Group. Venue: The Nottingham Irish Centre, 2-4 Wilford Street, Nottingham, UK, NG2 1AA. 7:30pm to 10pm. Details.

Monday 3 February: A history of Lemon's Pure Sweets, with Cormac Moore. Host: Mondays at the Mess Series. Venue: Richmond Barracks (off Bulfin Rd, corner of Emmet Road (R810), behind St Michael’s Church), Inchicore, Dublin 8. 11am. All welcome. Tickets €5 which includes tea/coffee & scone can be booked through Ticketsolve.

Tuesday 4 February: DNA and Taking It Further, with Martin McDowell. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Tyrone Branch. Venue: Omagh Library, 1 Spillars Place, Irishtown Rd, Omagh BT78 1HL. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Wednesday 5 February: Fake News and Irish Freedom – the media, censorship, and propaganda 1919-1923, with Ian Kenneally. Host: Kildare Local History Group. Venue: Áras Bhríde (Parish Centre), Bride Street, Kildare Town. Refreshments served from 7:30pm; talk begins at 8pm. Free. All welcome. Details.

Thursday 6 February: Visualising the past: Waterford County Museum’s photographic archive, with William Fraher. Part of the Dunhill History Lecture Series XIV. Venue: Dunhill Multi-Education Centre (opposite the GAA grounds), Dunhill, Co Waterford. 8pm. Followed by a Q&A and light refreshments.

Saturday 8 February: Intermediate Irish Records, with Jill Williams FIGRS. Host: Scottish Genealogy Society. Venue: SGS Family History Centre, 15 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL, Scotland. 10am-noon. Fee: £10. Booking essential. One space remaining on 27 Jan.
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Friday 24 January 2020

Leinster Reporter joins BritishNewspaperArchive.com

The Leinster Reporter has joined the online BritishNewspaperArchive.com (BNA) today.

The unionist-leaning weekly paper, published in Tullamore, Co Offaly on Saturdays, launched in 1859 as the Leinster Reporter & Central Times, and changed its name three times in the next couple of years until it settled on its final title in 1861.

Its initial upload includes 1,601 editions, all published in the 1920s, with earlier issues planned for upload this weekend. The eventual holding of this title will run from 1859 to 1929.

Like all papers in the online BNA, The Leinster Reporter automatically becomes available in FindMyPast's (Irish) Newspaper Collection, so you can take your pick where you choose to view and search it.


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Newly launched & updated British genealogy collections

Below is a summary of new and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales released by major genealogy databases since 7 January. (The previous listing was on 6 January, see blogpost).

This regular summary of releases relating to British collections is designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors migrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales. By default, it will also be useful to anyone carrying out research in those three nations, regardless of the origin of their ancestors.

The figures in parenthesis in the New Collections section are the numbers of records/images in the new record set.

Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis in the Updated Collections section reflect the number of records added to the collection in the recent update. In some instances, the supplier has not made this figure available.

NEW COLLECTIONS


FamilySearch


UPDATED COLLECTIONS


Ancestry

British Newspaper Archives and also FindMyPast's British Newspaper Collection

DeceasedOnline

Family Search

FindMyPast

General Register Office England & Wales

The Genealogist

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Thursday 23 January 2020

PRONI is looking for volunteers to assist with 3 projects

PRONI is located in Belfast's Titanic Quarter
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is looking for volunteers to assist with three current projects.

With a distinctive but complementary role alongside paid staff, volunteers are considered an integral part of the PRONI team; they bring new skills and perspectives to the archive and can undertake activities that might not otherwise be carried out.

The three projects that currently need volunteers are these:

Enhanced Access to Records
The Enhanced Access to Records volunteer will assist with indexing and transcribing from original records, eg name heavy index lists and/or enhanced cataloguing descriptions, to a level of detail which would not be part of PRONI’s standard cataloguing process.

Digital Image Library
The Digital Image Library volunteer will work alongside expert curatorial and archive photography staff and will upload digitised copies of archival material into the PRONI Digital Image Library system. This involves enriching digital image descriptions with information from the PRONI catalogue, plus adding keywords and subject terms to the images before uploading them into a searchable image database system.

Young and Mackenzie Collection
The Young and Mackenzie volunteer will assist in the organisation of architectural plans and drawings within the Young and Mackenzie collection. The volunteer will prepare an index of individual plans and drawings, organise plans and drawings in date order within individual architectural schemes and clean individual plans and drawings within the collection, which is being prepared for public access.

The closing date for applications is Friday 31 January.

Volunteer activities are unpaid. However, PRONI does make contributions towards travel and lunch expenses. You'll find more details in PRONI's Volunteer Policy, which, along with applications forms, you'll find here.
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Recent Irish genealogy and history lectures on video

I meant to give you this menu of genealogy and history lecture videos to peruse over the Christmas break, but somehow I didn't quite get round to laying the page out in an organised way.

So, better late than never, and still useful during the northern hemisphere's dark winter months (those in the southern half probably have other things to do), here's a selection of the lectures I spotted over the autumn that Netflix don't seem to have picked up. There's also one bonus lecture at the bottom of the list, recorded just last week.

'You may want a priest yet' - the portrayal of the Catholic Priest in Irish Folklore, with Professor Salvador Ryan. From the Tipperary Studies 'People and Places Lecture Series'. Recorded 19 November 2019 at The Source, Thurles. Also on podcast, here.

Irish Emigration: New Sources, New Approaches, New Results, with Professor (Emeritus) Cormac Ó Gráda, UCD. The inaugural Brian Trainor memorial lecture. Hosted by PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation on 26 September 2019.

Connections & Coincidences in Emigration, with Dr Linda Lunney. PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation hosted this presentation on connections with North America on 15 November 2019.

A History of Belfast City Cemetery, with Tom Hartley. The cemetery opened in 1869 as a cross denominational burial ground for the people of Belfast. The lecture was presented at PRONI on 17 October 2019.

WikiTree – an introduction, with Anne Johnston. The free genealogy website maintains more than 17 million ancestral profiles. Hosted by PRONI, this lecture was held on 27 November 2019.

Declaring Independence: America 1776, Ireland 1919, with HE Dan Mulhall, the Irish Ambassador to the US, who is introduced by James Kingston, Legal Advisor at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This talk was given at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen in late August 2019.

At the Crossroads: Ireland, Britain and the International Context, 1919-1923, with Professor John Horne. This talk was given at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen in late August 2019.

Southern Protestant Voices during the War of Independence and Civil War, with Professor Brian Walker. This talk was given at the West Cork History Festival in Skibbereen in late August 2019.

A Strategic Approach to Irish Genealogy, with Dr Maurice Gleeson at RootsTech London in October 2019.

Getting started with DNA, with Debbie Kennett at RootsTech London in October 2019.

Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry, FamilySearch, Findmypast and MyHeritage, with Sunny Morton at RootsTech London in October 2019.

Townlands, Maps and Directories, with Shane Wilson showing how to dig deep into his website, swilson.info, one of the most useful sites for Irish genealogists. The lecture was hosted by the Genealogical Society of Ireland on 14 January 2020.



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Wednesday 22 January 2020

IRA Intelligence Unit album debuts in new exhibition

National Museum of Ireland (NMI) in Collins Barracks (Dublin) has opened its newly-refurbished Irish Wars, 1919-1923 gallery today. As previously, it is part of the museum's Soldiers and Chief permanent exhibition, but it now has new multi-media features, new theme interpretations such as civil disobedience, imprisonment, propaganda and the effects of the conflict on civilian populations, as well as more than 50 new displayed objects.

Among the latter is a photo album created by the IRA Intelligence unit. It contains portraits and group photos of individuals the IRA intended to target for assassination ie members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and Auxilliaries, as well as civilians who worked within British Services and could be useful as undercover agents.

The album has never been made public before and, because it is considered to be of national significance and far too valuable to be on public display, visitors to the exhibition don't actually see the book itself, only images from it.

You can read more about the album, and view a video featuring Brenda Malone, the curator of the NMI exhibition, in The Irish Times.

I'm looking forward to visiting the exhibition in due course, but the news of this album made me wonder whether all the names of people identified in its photos have been transcribed. I'm sure there are plenty of family historians who'd want to know if their ancestor features in it. I've dropped Brenda a note about this and I'll update this blogpost when I hear from her.

https://www.museum.ie/Decorative-Arts-History/Exhibitions/Current-Exhibitions/Irish-Wars-1919-%E2%80%93-1923
Click to find out more about the exhibition
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Tuesday 21 January 2020

25% discounts on subscriptions to FindMyPast

FindMyPast is offering 25% discounts on all one-month subscriptions to its Ireland, USA/Canada and Australia/NewZealand packages. The same discount is available for UK packages on all thee-month subscriptions.

As it's just on the one-month packages, the savings are not huge in monetary value, but in January, when purses and wallets can be tight, every little bit helps and might just the push needed by some people to get their research started or dusted off.

Take a look at the savings, by clicking on your chosen flag below. You'll then be able to see the discounted prices available.

These offers expire at 11:59pm (GMT) on Saturday 25 January.

Check the T&Cs before you order and make sure you're aware of what happens when the initial period is up. (Your subscription will automatically renew at full price unless you switch off auto-renew on the 'My subscription' page when logged into the site. This is easy to do, but you need to remember to do it if you don't want the subscription to roll on.)




FindMyPast Ireland
25% off 1-month subscriptions
Offer ends 11:59pm GMT Saturday 25 January
FindMyPast USA/Canada 
25% off 1-month subscriptions
Offer ends 11:59pm GMT Saturday 25 January
FindMyPast UK 
25% off 3-month subscriptions
Offer ends 11:59pm GMT Saturday 25 January


FindMyPast Australia/NZ 
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Monday 20 January 2020

Irish genealogy, history and heritage, 20 Jan – 2 Feb

Monday 20 January: An East Antrim Sketchbook, with Adrian Steele. Host: North of Ireland Family Family History Society, Larne Branch. Venue: Larne Bowling & Lawn Tennis Club, 112-120 Glenarm Road, Larne, BT40 1DZ. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Monday 20 January: Family history advice, with Margaret Bonar and Betty Craven. Two sessions: Mornings (10:15-Noon) at Raheny Library, Howth Rd, Raheny, Dublin 5 / Afternoon sessions at Donaghmede Library, Donaghmede Shopping Centre, Dublin 13. Free. All welcome. Booking essential at T 087 6491605.

Tuesday 21 January: Ireland’s War of Independence, An Introduction to the IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign 1919-21, with Lorcan Collins. Coincides with NLI exhibition From Turmoil to Truce at its National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar. Host: National Library of Ireland. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 7pm. All welcome. No booking required.

Tuesday 21 January: The poor’s money — the work of churches c. 1650 to 1740 in caring for the sick, wounded and those in hardship, with Horace Reid. Lecale & Downe Historical Society, Down County Museum, The Mall, Downpatrick, Co. Down. Admission: Members free; Non-members £2. All welcome. 7:30pm.

Tuesday 21 January: A History of Dublin Port, with Cormac Lowth. Also (short talk) Early Society in South County Dublin, with Brian MacAongusa. Host: Foxrock Local History Club. Venue: Pastoral Centre, Foxrock, Dublin 18. 8pm. All welcome. Admission: €5. Members free.

Wednesday 22 January: Pray for the donor: Money and the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921, with Dr Sarah Roddy. SSNCI Annual Lecture. Host: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 6pm. Free. All welcome.

Thursday 23 January: John McGahern’s Dublin, with Professor Frank Shovlin – the 23rd Annual Sir John T Gilbert Commemorative Lecture. Host and venue: Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. 6pm. Reception to follow. No Booking Required. Come early to ensure a place. Further information.

Thursday 23 January: The Burning of Cork, with Micheal Lenihan. Host: Duchas Clonakilty Heritage. Venue: The Parish Centre, Clonakilty. Co Cork. 8pm. Free. All welcome.

Thursday 23 January: Online Resources for Family and Local History, a workshop. Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9HQ. Each workshop will start with an orientation tour of PRONI, followed by an introduction to searching online resources. 7pm to 9pm. FULLY BOOKED.

Thursday 23 January: Women, the vote, and Waterford, with Niamh Crowley. Third of the Series XIV Dunhill History Lectures. Venue: Dunhill Multi-Education Centre (opposite GAA grounds), Dunhill Ecopark, Co Waterford. 8pm. Followed by Q&A and light refreshments. All welcome.

Friday 24 January: Roman Catholic, with Colin Barr. 'Disestablishment 150th anniversary' lunchtime lecture series. Host: Church of Ireland. Venue: Music Room, Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin 8. 1:10pm. All welcome. Free.

Monday 27 January: Impressions of a visitor to Dublin in 1806–7, with Angela Byrne. From accounts of everyday life in Ireland following the 1798 & 1803 rebellions. Venue and host: Blanchardstown Library, The Civic Centre, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15. 6:30-7:30pm. Booking essential: 01 890 5560.

Monday 27 January: All that remained’— The Four Courts Blaze of 1922, a panel discussion with Catriona Crowe, Zoe Reid and Lar Joye. Host: Out of the Ashes Lecture Series. Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. 6:30pm to 8pm. The event is free but registration is essential.

Tuesday 28 January: Freeholders, Electors and Absent Voters, with Ian Montgomery. Host: North of Ireland Family Family History Society, Belfast Branch. Venue: C. S. Lewis Room, Holywood Arches Library, 4-12 Holywood Road, Belfast, BT4 1NT. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Tuesday 28 January: Rev. Traill’s Survey of Ballintoy Parish, with Robert Corbett. Host: North of Ireland Family Family History Society, Causeway Branch. Venue: The Sandal Centre. Main Hall. Knocklynn Road, Coleraine BT52 1WT. 8-10pm. Free. All welcome.

Tuesday 28 January: My Grandfather's 1870s Sojourn in Australia, with Michael Tubridy. Host: Kilrush and District Historical Society. Venue: Teach Ceoil, Grace Street, Kilrush, Co Clare. 8pm. All welcome. Members free. Non-members €5 at the door.

Wednesday 29 January: The causes of crime in mid-Antrim in the nineteenth century, with Dr Elaine Farrell. (+ AGM). Host: Carrickfergus & District Historical Society. Venue: The Dobbs Room, Town Hall, Joymount, Carrickfergus, BT38 7DL. 8pm. All welcome.

Thursday 30 January: The Hore family of Dungarvan, with Julian Walton. Part of the Dunhill History Lectures Series XIV. Venue: Dunhill Multi-Education Centre (opposite GAA grounds), Dunhill Ecopark, Co Waterford. 8pm. Followed by Q&A and light refreshments. All welcome.

Thursday 30 January: DNA talk for beginners, with Martin McDowell. Host: North of Ireland Family Family History Society, Ballymena Branch. Venue: Michelin Arts Workshop, Braid Arts Centre, 1-29 Bridge St, Ballymena BT43 5EJ. 7:15pm. All welcome.

Friday 31 January: Crisis and long-term effects – the 1918 ti 1919 influenza pandemic in Waterford and Ireland, with Dr Ida Milne. Host: Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society. Venue: St Patrick's Gateway Centre, Patrick St, Waterford City. 8pm. Members free; non-members €5. All welcome.
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Friday 17 January 2020

Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives: First files for 2020

After a very short winter break, volunteers from Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives have uploaded their first batch of files for 2020. They include headstone photos and transribed inscriptions from four burial grounds in Counties Cavan, Dublin and Mayo, and like all files on the site, they are free to view.

The entrance to Polranny Cemetery, which overlooks
Achill Sound. Photo courtesy of Bernie McCafferty
and Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives
CAVAN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Raffoney Cemetery, Virginia
St. Brigids, Ballyconnell

DUBLIN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Mount Jerome, Dublin - Part 240

MAYO Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Polranny Cemetery - Pt 1, Achill Sound


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Wednesday 15 January 2020

NLI.ie offline on Thursday for two 1-hour sessions

The National Library of Ireland has advised that to facilitate essential electrical works tomorrow, 16 January, all of its online services via nli.ie will be unavailable for two one-hour sessions.

The first may affect the early risers: from 6:30am to 7:30am.
The second may catch a few more people: from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.

For genealogists, the most obvious loss will be access to the e-catalogue and the Roman Catholic Parish Registers. With regards to the latter, there will be a knock-on effect: if you're searching for RC baptisms and marriages via RootsIreland, Ancestry and FindMyPast, their links to images of the registers won't work.

Hopefully, full access will be available outside the advised offline times.

UPDATE, Thursday 5:50pm: NLI has advised that this evening's offline session needs to be extended. It is expected to last for TWO hours, rather than one.

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Back To Our Past Belfast 2020: lecture programmes

There are just over four weeks to go until Back to our Past opens its doors in Belfast!

Belfast: Friday 14 Feb–Saturday 15 Feb
Following publication of the Genetic Genealogy Ireland lecture programme a week or so ago, the (traditional) Genealogy lectures schedule has now been announced. Three sessions are still unconfirmed, but there's enough in the pot to start getting the genealogy juices flowing and planning your time at the show.

The traditional Genealogy presentations have been organised by Martin McDowell, the Education & Development Officer of the North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS) and brief details are below.

Friday 14 February
10:30 Family History - Getting Started, with Janet Hancock, PRONI
11:30 Using landed estate records to find 18th & 19th-century ancestors, with Gillian Hunt, UHF
12:30 Tracing your Presbyterian Ancestors, with Valerie Adams, Presbyterian Historical Society
13:30 Enhancing your research using Journals, with Mike McKeag, NIFHS
14:30 Who are the IGRS and what resources do they offer members? with Claire Bradley, IGRS
15:30 New online records at PRONI, with Desmond McCabe, PRONI

Saturday 15 February
10:30 TBC
11:30 How the North of Ireland FHS can help your research, with Andrew Kane, NIFHS
12:30 TBC, with Libraries NI.
13:30 Tracing the Irish in Scotland, with Chris Paton, Genealogist, Scotland’s Greatest Story
14:30 Using online records to trace your family tree, with Stephen Scarth, PRONI
15:30 TBC

Entrance is free, as are all the genetic and traditional genealogy lectures held over the two days.

The conference/exhibition/genealgy-get-together will be held at the International Convention Centre, 2 Lanyon Place, Belfast, BT1 3WH. Details of all the lectures, times and tickets can be found on the Back To Our Past website. Click the logo above.



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Tuesday 14 January 2020

Family Tree DNA revises its test kit prices

Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) has revised prices for its DNA tests and, unusually, this has resulted in some significant price drops. While the cost of  its Family Finder autosomal test hasn't changed – it's still US$79 – its y-DNA and mt-DNA testing kits have savings of up to US$200!

https://www.familytreedna.comThe savings to customers come in response to reduced costs following FTDNA's  'systemic improvements to production processes'. The company says it hopes the lower prices will see not only more people being encouraged to test but that they will test at a higher level.

With that in mind, FTDNA has discontinued its 25-marker and 67-marker y-DNA tests.

Here's the new pricing structure:
  • Y-37 $119 (previously $169)
  • Y-111 $249 (previously $359)
  • BigY-700 $449 (previously $649)
  • mtDNA full sequence $159 (previously $199)
  • Family Finder autosomal DNA test $79 (no change)
Y-dna upgrade prices have also fallen.

Shipping costs are additional and are $9.95 in the US and $12.95 to most international destinations.

You'll find more details on the FTDNA website.
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Monday 13 January 2020

Irish genealogy, history & heritage events, 13-26 January

Monday 13 January: Members Workshop. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Newtownabbey branch. Venue: Drama Theatre, Glengormley High School, 134 Ballyclare Road, Newtownabbey, BT36 5HP. All welcome. Free. 7pm.

Monday 13 January: Hope and History, with Paul McFadden.  Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Foyle branch. Venue: Lecture Room of Derry City’s Central Library, 35 Foyle Street, Londonderry, BT48 6AL. All welcome. Free. 7pm.

Monday 13 January: Online Resources for Family and Local History, a practical workshop with orientiation tour of PRONI, and an introduction to searching online resources. Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, BT3 9HQ. 11am to 1pm. Free. All welcome but places are limited and need to be reserved in advance. Details. (12 Jan pm... Still spaces available.)

Tuesday 14 January: The present-day relevance of the Spanish Civil War and its victims, with Dr Chiara Tedaldi. UCD Lifelong Learning Taster Lecture series. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Noon. All welcome. Details.

Tuesday 14 January: Townlands, Maps & Directories, with Shane Wilson. Host: Genealogical Society of Ireland. Venue: Dún Laoghaire Further Education Institute, 17 Cumberland St, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. All welcome. Contribution €3.00.

Tuesday 14 January: Stories from Stones: Researching Graveyards, with Tom Hartley. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Lisburn branch. Venue: Bridge Community Centre, 50 Railway Street, Lisburn, BT 28 1XP. All welcome. 7:30pm.

Wednesday 15 January: The Limerick Navigation, with Brian J Goggin. Host: Killaloe-Ballina Local History Society. Venue: The Lakeside Hotel, Ballina, Killaloe, Co. Clare. 7:30pm. Free. All welcome.

Wednesday 15 January: Experiences and contributions of women during the War of Independence, with Dr Mary McAuliffe. Host: Greystones Archaeological & Historical Society. Venue: Holy Rosary Family Centre, La Touche Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow. 8pm. All welcome. Details.

Wednesday 15 January: The Barrow Navigation: a social and economic history, with Niall O Brien. Host: Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society. Venue: Mc Grath Hall, Station Road, Bagenalstown, Co Carlow. Admission is free and all are welcome. 8pm.

Thursday 16 January: Coastal Place names from Dungarvan to Youghal, with Liam Suipéal. Part of the Series XIV Dunhill History Lectures. Venue: Dunhill Multi-Education Centre (opposite GAA grounds), Dunhill Ecopark, Co Waterford. 8pm. Followed by Q&A and light refreshments. All welcome.

Friday 17 January: Using American records to tear down Irish brick walls, with Kevin Cassidy. Host: Accredited Genealogists Ireland. Venue: National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, 2:30pm. Details.

Friday 17 January: History, with Professor Alan Ford. Disestablishment 150th anniversary lunchtime lecture series. Host: Church of Ireland. Venue: Music Room, Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin 8. 1:10pm. All welcome. Free.

Friday 17 January: A sense of place—tracing the Ulster-Scots, with Professor Wesley Hutchinson. Host: Cullybacky & District Historical Society. Venue: Royal British Legion Hall, Main Street, Cullybacky, Co Antrim. 8pm. All welcome.

Monday 20 January: An East Antrim Sketchbook, with Adrian Steele. Host: North of Ireland Family Family History Society, Larne Branch. Venue: Larne Bowling & Lawn Tennis Club, 112-120 Glenarm Road, Larne, BT40 1DZ. 7:30pm. All welcome.

Monday 20 January: Family history advice, with Margaret Bonar and Betty Craven. Two sessions: Mornings (10:15-Noon) at Raheny Library, Howth Rd, Raheny, Dublin 5 / Afternoon sessions at Donaghmede Library, Donaghmede Shopping Centre, Dublin 13. Free. All welcome. Booking essential at T 087 6491605.

Tuesday 21 January: Ireland’s War of Independence, An Introduction to the IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign 1919-21, with Lorcan Collins. Coincides with NLI exhibition From Turmoil to Truce at its National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar. Host: National Library of Ireland. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 7pm. All welcome. No booking required.

Tuesday 21 January: The poor’s money — the work of churches c. 1650 to 1740 in caring for the sick, wounded and those in hardship, with Horace Reid. Lecale & Downe Historical Society, Down County Museum, The Mall, Downpatrick, Co. Down. Admission: Members free; Non-members £2. All welcome. 7:30pm.

Tuesday 21 January: A History of Dublin Port, with Cormac Lowth. Also (short talk) Early Society in South County Dublin, with Brian MacAongusa. Host: Foxrock Local History Club. Venue: Pastoral Centre, Foxrock, Dublin 18. 8pm. All welcome. Admission: €5. Members free.

Wednesday 22 January: Pray for the donor: Money and the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921, with Dr Sarah Roddy. SSNCI Annual Lecture. Host: Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. 6pm. Free. All welcome.

Thursday 23 January: John McGahern’s Dublin, with Professor Frank Shovlin – the 23rd Annual Sir John T Gilbert Commemorative Lecture. Host and venue: Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2. 6pm. Reception to follow. No Booking Required. Come early to ensure a place. Further information.

Thursday 23 January: The Burning of Cork, with Micheal Lenihan. Host: Duchas Clonakilty Heritage. Venue: The Parish Centre, Clonakilty. Co Cork. 8pm. Free. All welcome.

Thursday 23 January: Online Resources for Family and Local History, a workshop. Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9HQ. Each workshop will start with an orientation tour of PRONI, followed by an introduction to searching online resources. 7pm to 9pm. FULLY BOOKED.

Thursday 23 January: Women, the vote, and Waterford, with Niamh Crowley. Third of the Series XIV Dunhill History Lectures. Venue: Dunhill Multi-Education Centre (opposite GAA grounds), Dunhill Ecopark, Co Waterford. 8pm. Followed by Q&A and light refreshments. All welcome.

Friday 24 January: Roman Catholic, with Colin Barr. Disestablishment 150th anniversary lunchtime lecture series. Host: Church of Ireland. Venue: Music Room, Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin 8. 1:10pm. All welcome. Free.



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Saturday 11 January 2020

Three more Irish newspapers now searchable on BNA

The trio of newspapers I mentioned in yesterday's blogpost reached the end of the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) pipe rather sooner than I had expected and are now searchable in both the online BNA database and FindMyPast's Irish Newspaper Collection.

These are they:

Midland Counties Advertiser
This independent weekly title was published in Roscrea, Co Tipperary from 1854–1948, and the BNA holding will eventually hold this span of editions.

So far, only 815 editions have been digitised, the earliest dated January 1928, and the most recent 27 December 1845.

Sligo Independent
This conservative Saturday title was first published in 1855. Between 1921 and 1927 it's masthead described the paper as The Sligo Independent and West of Ireland Telegraph.

As of today, the BNA online collection includes only 115 editions, all from 1925 to 1927, but the planned digitised holding extends back to 1855.

Kilkenny Moderator
Some 1,247 editions of the Kilkenny Moderator are now available for searching. Apart from some editions published in 1825, they all date from the early 20th century. When fully digitised, the BNA's holding will span 1825 to 1925.

In it's last five years of publication, the paper was known just as the Moderator.



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Friday 10 January 2020

2-month summary of new/updated Canadian collections

Below you'll find my summary of the new and updated Canadian records released by the major genealogy database suppliers in the last two months. For the previous summary, see my 7 November blogpost.

These regular listings of additional sources are designed primarily to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated to Canada, but they may prove useful to Canadian researchers looking for a brief update of what's recently available.

Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new collection, or the total number in a newly topped-up collection.

NEW COLLECTIONS


Ancestry

FamilySearch

FindMyPast

MyHeritage

OntarioAncestors

UPDATED COLLECTIONS


Ancestry

FamilySearch

Interment.net

*Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM) These records are not searchable in Ancestry's Global database. The individual collection page must be accessed directly and the NSARM T&Cs agreed.



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Genealogy Conference in Armagh City, 8-10 May 2020

https://www.visitarmagh.com/genealogyconferenceArmagh Ancestry, in conjunction with the local council, will host its annual Genealogy Conference on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May at the Navan Centre & Fort, an ancient ceremonial monument on the edge of Armagh City.

The programme looks good for all levels of experience, with the main genealogy collections covered, and talks on social history, specialist archives and collections, medieval research, migration, surnames and placenames, and much more. There's also a graveyard tour, a Q&A panel and an open mike session.

The cost of the Conference is £20 per day or £50 for all three days and the fee includes tea/coffee during breaks. A special Lunch menu is available each day for only £6.

To book online, click the flyer image above, or for further information contact Armagh Ancestry at researcher@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk or by telephone 00 44 2837529644.

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Westmeath and Longford newspaper joins online BNA

The online British Newspaper Archive (BNA) continued to grow at an astonishing pace last year, but it wasn't a great 12-months for the addition of new titles published in Ireland.

Only 12 such titles joined the archive. Shouldn't grumble, especially since so many additional pages and editions were added to the existing Irish holding, but it was noticably lower than in previous years.

2020 is getting off to a good start, however, and the year's first historical Irish paper has landed: The Westmeath Guardian & Longford NewsLetter. All weekly editions published in 1900, 1901, 1903 and 1905 have been uploaded thus far, with the planned holding to span 1835 to 1928.

It should prove a useful addition to the resource bank of Irish genealogists with connections to the two counties.

The paper, along with the rest of the titles in the online BNA, are shared with FindMyPast's Irish Newspaper Collection.

SPOILER ALERT: Another three Irish titles are in the pipe and will be uploaded in the next few days. I'll let you know...


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Thursday 9 January 2020

Check the Margaret Higgins Database for Irish ancestors

In late December, the England-based Catholic Family History Society released its 'Margaret Higgins Database of Catholics in England and their Friends 1607-1840', a collection of records relating to approximately 274,500 individuals and transcribed from England's 'Returns of Papists' and a good many other sources.

For each entry in the database, you may find the following details:
  • Year
  • Surname
  • First name
  • Status/Occupation
  • Age in years
  • Length of Residence

The amount of information given varies and it is rare to find that all of these fields contain information for an individual.

Between 1680 and 1767, Returns of Papists were compiled in response to Parliament requesting information about known or reputed Roman Catholics. There were several compiled between 1680 and 1767, and those of 1705-6, 1711, 1735, 1745 and 1767 have been transcribed into this database.

https://catholicfhs.online/images/cfhs/higginsdb/PDF/Title&Intro.pdf
Click to download
So, too, have the names of people in Essex who were fined £40 for not attending their Church of England parish church for more than one month during the 1640s. Other names have come from confirmation lists, godparent lists, wills (with names of beneficiaries and witnesses), Oaths of Allegiance and Oaths of Abjuration, and some church records.

There is good reason for those with Irish ancestry to check this database, and the clue is in its title. It is not a database of English Catholics. It is a database of Catholics who lived in England, and the names that appear in it are a mix of English, French, Portuguese, Welsh, Scottish and Irish names.

Do bear in mind that the Irish names (and probably others, too) may appear under many guises. The database introduction warns that it's possible to find 19 variations of the name 'Donoghue', and even more if you include 'O'Donoghue'. Use the wildcard.

After reading the introduction, which I'd recommend all researchers do before they head for the database, I was pleasantly surprised – shocked, actually – to find a batch of 16 Santry entries dating from the early 1825–1835 in the East End of London. Some of them appear to be duplications, and I shall have fun untangling them and trying to track them back to West Cork, where they would have originated.

None of them is noted as from Ireland, however, so I think it's fairly safe to assume there are a good number more Irish people in these records than the official tally of 1,293 'Ireland entries' suggests.

The 22.8Mb download is free – click the image above – and comes in three parts: A Bibliography; A Title and Introduction booklet; And the database itself, which you download to your computer from the link on page 2 of the Introduction.


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Wednesday 8 January 2020

MyHeritage releases Burial Indexes for RoI and UK

MyHeritage has added a new collection for the Republic of Ireland.

It's an Index of Burials from 1900–2019 and it holds 205,995 records. The blurb says the entries may include the name of the cemetery, given name and surname of the deceased, age at death, place of residence, date of death and religion.

The image to the right shows the entry for my maternal great grandfather, Patrick Doyle. So far, so good.

But MyHeritage has provided no other information about the scope or origin of the records, which is disappointing. And when I spent time doing sample searches of the database, I scanned through hundreds of records relating to burials in Counties Carlow and Dublin, and even two for Meath and one for Donegal, but no other locations.

The collection may be a work in progress – that's fair enough – but why not say so.

The same issues apply to the smaller (158,099 records) UK Index of Burials, 1900–2019, only here I found an additional problem: confused geography. The first 50-results page for a sample search of the surname Johnson brought up 15 burials from Counties Antrim, LondonDerry, Tyrone and Louth (the first three are in Northern Ireland and Louth is in the Republic). See below.


https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10799/united-kingdom-index-of-burials-1900-2019
Part of the results page from a search of the UK Index of Burials showing results in Counties Antrim and Louth.

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A snapshot of Ireland in 2019: facts and stats

https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/releasespublications/documents/statisticalpublications/2019/500908_Ireland's_Facts_&_Figures_2019_WEB.pdf
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How many sheep hang out in Ireland's green fields? Which three counties have no connection to the gas network? And just how much did it rain in 2018?

The answer to these and many other essential tests of your knowledge of today's nation are answered in the Republic of Ireland's Central Statistics Office annual Ireland's Facts and Figures report for 2019, which was released this morning.

It presents a comprehensive statistical picture of Ireland, with detailed and colourful information, tables and graphs on subjects such as average earnings, the types of homes we live in, education, prices, trade, society etc.

Among its revelations are these statistics:
  • The estimated population of the Republic at the start of last year was 4,921,500. Irish National made up 87.3% of that number.
  • Some 61,016 births were registered in 2018, a figure 23.2% lower than in 2008 when 75,173 births were registered.
  • The top three surnames for babies registered in 2018 were: 3rd.Ryan; 2nd.Kelly; 1st.Murphy.
  • Potatoes head up a sample list of national average prices – the cost for 2kg of the staple increased by 4%. Other items that saw increases were petrol, a cinema ticket, a pint of stout and a gent's hair cut.
  • The Border Region has the lowest level of Internet access in the home (84%). The rate is 95% in Dublin and 91% nationally.
The 36-page booklet is free to download.



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    IrishGenealogy.ie uploads marriage registers 1845-1864

    An unexpected New Year gift from IrishGenealogy.ie.

    Images of Ireland's Civil Registration Marriage registers from 1845 – 1864 have (finally) been added to the site. This means all civil marriage registers from 1845 to 1944 are now online for free (see note below). Bear in mind that the pre-1864 civil records relate only to non-Catholic marriages.

    Also in the delivery are the rolling 'top-up' years of the 1919 births, the 1944 marriages and the 1969 deaths.

    So just one last haul is required – the death register images for 1864 to 1877 remain outstanding – and then free online access to Ireland's civil registration records will be complete, if still (unfortunately) subject to the 100-75-50-year 'rule'.

    In a nutshell, these are the civil records now available on the site:

    Births: 1864-1919: images and index
    Marriages: 1845-1944: images and index
    Deaths: 1864-1877: index only; 1878-1969: images and index

    Note: The IrishGenealogy.ie database covers the entire island up to 1921. Thereafter, the records are for the Republic of Ireland only. For Northern Ireland's civil registration records, see GRONI online.

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    Latest releases and updates to US genealogy databases

    Below is a summary of US family history collections that have been either newly released or updated by the major genealogy databases during the last four weeks. (The last listing was published on 16 December, see blogpost).

    My regular summaries are designed to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated, temporarily or permanently, to the United States. By default, they should also be useful to anyone carrying out research in the US, regardless of the origin of their ancestors.

    The figures in parenthesis in the New Collections section are the numbers of records/images in each new record set.

    Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis in the Updated Collections section reflect the number of records added to the collection in the recent update, if a number has been clearly noted by the supplier.


    New Collections


    Ancestry

    FamilySearch

    FindMyPast


    Updated Collections


    AmericanAncestors

    Ancestry

    Family Search

    Interment.net
    • Some 423,346 cemetery records covering 63 cemeteries in 20 US states
      • Alaska (Matanuska-Susitna Borough)
      • Colorado (Boulder, El Paso, Weld)
      • Florida (Alachua, Lake, Osceola)
      • Idaho (Ada)
      • Illinois (Douglas, Logan, Kane, Sangamon, Winnebago)
      • Iowa (Johnson, Clay, Boone)
      • Kentucky (Jefferson)
      • Massachusetts (Worcester)
      • Michigan (Charlevoix)
      • Minnesota (Ramsey)
      • Nebraska (Dodge)
      • North Carolina (Iredell)
      • North Dakota (Cass)
      • Ohio (Franklin, Lucas, Montgomery)
      • Oklahoma (Ellis, Oklahoma)
      • Texas (El Paso, Gillespie)
      • Utah (Salt Lake)
      • Virginia (City of Richmond, Bedford)
      • Wisconsin (Juneau, Waukesha, Richland)
      • Wyoming (Fremont, Johnson, Park)
    MyHeritage
    Newspapers.com

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