The National Library of Ireland has advised that its online services will not be available from 6pm on Sunday 6 September until 9am on Monday 7 September.
I assume this will mean the Library’s catalogue and the Roman Catholic registers web platform will be inaccessible during the stated hours.
Best to organise your genealogy hours accordingly this weekend!
Saturday, 5 September 2020
Friday, 4 September 2020
Irish Newspaper Archives: new title & discounts on offer
To mark the occasion, INA is offering discounts across its range of subscriptions to its database, as follows:
Gold Subscription, SAVE 25%.
Use promotion/coupon code EVP25.
Silver Subscription, SAVE 20%.
Use promotion/coupon code: EVP20.
Radical Subscription, SAVE 10%.
Use promotion/coupon code EVP10.
For more details about what each subscription includes, click the image. The offer will expire on 27 September.
FindMyPast adds 15m migration records to US collection
The update includes records covering California, New York and Texas, and is made up of five individual records sets from US Nara Archives and Records Administration.
They are:
- Alien Arrivals at Eagle Pass, Texas, 1905-1953
- Texas, Alien Arrivals by Airplane, 1944-1952
- California, San Diego Passenger Lists, 1904-1952
- California, San Diego Airplane Arrivals, 1929-1954
- New York City, Book Indexes to Passenger Lists, 1906-1942
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Genealogical Society of Queensland to host Exploring Irish Ancestry live seminar on 24 October
The Genealogical Society of Queensland is to hold its Annual Seminar "Exploring Irish Ancestry" online this year. It will take place on Saturday 24 October between 9am and 6pm on Zoom.
It will be a live seminar, bar two pre-recorded sessions necessitated by time zones, and a recording of the event will not be made. So, if you want to enjoy the learning experience provided by the excellent programme that's been put together, you'll need to book your place.
The seminar is open to members of GSQ (Early Bird Price is Aus$ 50) and non-members (Early Bird Price is Aus$65). Click the image or see https:www.gsq.org.au/event/annual-seminar-irish-ancestry/ to register and purchase your ticket.
Please note that Early bird pricing ends on 30 September. Prices from 1 October will increase to Members $Aus 60/ Non Members $Aus 75.
Here's the programme:
9am
Zoom Room opens
9:30am – 10:30am
Past and furious: Ireland and its shaping of family history, with Jennifer Harrison
10:30am – 11:30am
Accessing Republic of Ireland archives & online collection, with Pauleen Cass
11:30am– 12:30pm
Irish land records, valuations and online collections, with John Grenham (pre-recorded)
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Lunch break
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Northern Ireland archives: PRONI and online collections, with Chris Paton (pre-recorded)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Workhouses and poor law in Ireland, with Cathie Sherwood
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Irish Migration to Australia, with Helen Smith
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Drawing of raffles, lucky door prize, seminar round-up.
5:30pm – 6.00pm
Live Q&A with Chris Paton
It will be a live seminar, bar two pre-recorded sessions necessitated by time zones, and a recording of the event will not be made. So, if you want to enjoy the learning experience provided by the excellent programme that's been put together, you'll need to book your place.The seminar is open to members of GSQ (Early Bird Price is Aus$ 50) and non-members (Early Bird Price is Aus$65). Click the image or see https:www.gsq.org.au/event/annual-seminar-irish-ancestry/ to register and purchase your ticket.
Please note that Early bird pricing ends on 30 September. Prices from 1 October will increase to Members $Aus 60/ Non Members $Aus 75.
Here's the programme:
9am
Zoom Room opens
9:30am – 10:30am
Past and furious: Ireland and its shaping of family history, with Jennifer Harrison
10:30am – 11:30am
11:30am– 12:30pm
Irish land records, valuations and online collections, with John Grenham (pre-recorded)
12:30pm – 1:00pm
Lunch break
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Northern Ireland archives: PRONI and online collections, with Chris Paton (pre-recorded)
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Workhouses and poor law in Ireland, with Cathie Sherwood
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Irish Migration to Australia, with Helen Smith
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Drawing of raffles, lucky door prize, seminar round-up.
5:30pm – 6.00pm
Live Q&A with Chris Paton
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives: end August summary
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| 1774 headstone to William Gaily in Merrion burial ground, Co Dublin. Photo courtesy Shane Wilson; transcriptions from Karen Poff & Jane Bow of YouWho |
It includes photos and inscriptions from headstones in three burial grounds in Counties Cavan and Dublin, and transcriptions of the Fethard Baptism Register for the year 1813.
CAVAN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Killaduff Cemetery, Swalinbar (additional)
DUBLIN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Kilbarrack Graveyard, Sutton (additional)
Merrion Graveyard, Dublin (partial)
TIPPERARY Genealogy Archives - Church Records
Fethard Parish Baptisms (R.C.), 1813 added
25% savings on annual subscriptions to RootsIreland.ie
RootsIreland.ie is offering a 25% discount on all 12-month subscriptions ordered before 17 September. The saving is available to both new and current subscribers.
The database, which is run by the Irish Family History Foundation and compiled from transcriptions made by genealogists working at the IFHF's island-wide network of county genealogy and heritage centres, now holds 23 million records.
Among them is the most complete and most accurate set of Roman Catholic church records online, and the largest multi-denominational collection of church register records from across Ireland.
New records are added regularly; in the first eight months of this year alone, more than 467,000 records have been uploaded from Kerry, Wicklow, Westmeath, Kilkenny, South Dublin, Armagh, North Mayo and Cork. You can check the menu of records available in the database for each county via this handy widget.
If you haven't previously registered with RootsIreland, you can do so here. Then either follow the instructions or click the 'Subscribe' button.
If you have previously registered, login here. If you currently have a subscription, click My Account, My Subscription and Start a New Subscription. The special deal subscription will then begin once your current subscription runs out.
The discount runs until 11:59pm on Thursday 17 September and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
The database, which is run by the Irish Family History Foundation and compiled from transcriptions made by genealogists working at the IFHF's island-wide network of county genealogy and heritage centres, now holds 23 million records. Among them is the most complete and most accurate set of Roman Catholic church records online, and the largest multi-denominational collection of church register records from across Ireland.
New records are added regularly; in the first eight months of this year alone, more than 467,000 records have been uploaded from Kerry, Wicklow, Westmeath, Kilkenny, South Dublin, Armagh, North Mayo and Cork. You can check the menu of records available in the database for each county via this handy widget.
If you haven't previously registered with RootsIreland, you can do so here. Then either follow the instructions or click the 'Subscribe' button.
If you have previously registered, login here. If you currently have a subscription, click My Account, My Subscription and Start a New Subscription. The special deal subscription will then begin once your current subscription runs out.
The discount runs until 11:59pm on Thursday 17 September and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
Church of Ireland Gazette digitisation project extended
The end of the RCB Library's project to digitise the Church of Ireland Gazette is now in sight. A series of monthly releases, starting this month, will lead to a final tranche of editions being uploaded in February 2021.
The Representative Church Body Library's project began seven years ago as a modest collaboration with the Editor and Board of the present-day Gazette and resulted in the digitisation of all editions published in 1913. From this relatively modest start, the collaboration grew in ambition, with the RCB Library aiming to digitise and make freely available a complete run of the Church's all-island newspaper dating back to 1856.
Subsequent organic growth was assisted by a combination of state funding, private sponsorship and the support of central Church funds, and saw the upload of free digitised editions up to and including 1949 (see the search engine https://esearch.informa.ie/rcb).
Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Irish Government’s Reconciliation Fund, administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Library has been enabled to finish the job.
Starting this month and concluding in the early months of 2021, the RCB Library will incrementally release all remaining editions of this rich resource from 1950 to 2009 (at which point the Gazette becomes available as an e-paper). Each release will see ten years of editions join the search engine. The first will be of editions published in the 1950s. The second of editions published in the 1960s, and so on.
Each tranche will be released in conjunction with an online exhibition under the banner headline: ‘The Borderless Church’.
The first presentation is an analysis of the 1950s by Dr Marie Coleman, Reader in modern Irish history at Queen’s University Belfast. Her richly-illustrated text brings to life the many topical issues of national and international significance covered in the Gazette’s pages during the decade.
These include Dr Noël Browne’s Mother-and-Child Scheme, the Fethard-on-Sea boycott, and the rise of what was then termed as the ‘Paisley movement’, as well as apartheid policies in South Africa, and the impact of the Revd Martin Luther King at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
You can read this first presentation as the RCBL's Archive of the Month for September here.
The RCB Library's librarian and archivist, Dr Susan Hood, said: ‘We are indebted to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Simon Coveney TD, and the Reconciliation Fund, for such generous support especially at this difficult time when small institutions like ours must restrict physical access to keep the public safe.
'We commend our service provider Informa who have worked so positively with us to deliver the incredibly fast and accurate search engine which is highly-valued by researchers, and we thank Dr Marie Coleman and all the subsequent Borderless Church contributors who have used this unique source to share their understandings and memories.’
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| Fr Trevor Huddleston’s account of a meeting with Revd Martin Luther King, syndicated from the Observer and published in the 12 April 1957 edition of the Church of Ireland Gazette. |
Subsequent organic growth was assisted by a combination of state funding, private sponsorship and the support of central Church funds, and saw the upload of free digitised editions up to and including 1949 (see the search engine https://esearch.informa.ie/rcb).
Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Irish Government’s Reconciliation Fund, administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Library has been enabled to finish the job.
Starting this month and concluding in the early months of 2021, the RCB Library will incrementally release all remaining editions of this rich resource from 1950 to 2009 (at which point the Gazette becomes available as an e-paper). Each release will see ten years of editions join the search engine. The first will be of editions published in the 1950s. The second of editions published in the 1960s, and so on.
Each tranche will be released in conjunction with an online exhibition under the banner headline: ‘The Borderless Church’.
The first presentation is an analysis of the 1950s by Dr Marie Coleman, Reader in modern Irish history at Queen’s University Belfast. Her richly-illustrated text brings to life the many topical issues of national and international significance covered in the Gazette’s pages during the decade.
These include Dr Noël Browne’s Mother-and-Child Scheme, the Fethard-on-Sea boycott, and the rise of what was then termed as the ‘Paisley movement’, as well as apartheid policies in South Africa, and the impact of the Revd Martin Luther King at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
You can read this first presentation as the RCBL's Archive of the Month for September here.
The RCB Library's librarian and archivist, Dr Susan Hood, said: ‘We are indebted to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Simon Coveney TD, and the Reconciliation Fund, for such generous support especially at this difficult time when small institutions like ours must restrict physical access to keep the public safe.
'We commend our service provider Informa who have worked so positively with us to deliver the incredibly fast and accurate search engine which is highly-valued by researchers, and we thank Dr Marie Coleman and all the subsequent Borderless Church contributors who have used this unique source to share their understandings and memories.’
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Irish record-set for new Ancestry World Archive Project
A new indexing project of Irish records has been announced by Ancestry's World Archives Project team. It will see the Ireland Abstracts of Wills and Marriages collection indexed and made available free on Ancestry.
Despite its name, the collection also contains random instances of family trees and books, military records, invoices, memorial cards and transaction ledgers.
Ancestry's instructions to WAP indexers are thorough. You can read them on the WAP project page here.
Despite its name, the collection also contains random instances of family trees and books, military records, invoices, memorial cards and transaction ledgers.
Ancestry's instructions to WAP indexers are thorough. You can read them on the WAP project page here.
British genealogy updates: end of August summary
Below is a summary of new and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales released by the major genealogy databases in the second half of the month (see last summary, 14 August).
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. I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
NEW COLLECTIONS
BritishNewspaperArchive (and shared with FindMyPast)
England
FamilySearch
FindMyPast
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
FamilySearch
FindMyPast
Scotland
FreeBMD
ScottishIndexes
The Genealogist
Note: Manx National Heritage's collection of Isle of Man newspapers (1792-1960), will remain free to access in the future.
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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. I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
NEW COLLECTIONS
BritishNewspaperArchive (and shared with FindMyPast)
England
- Gloucester Mercury
- Manchester Guardian (1821-28 only)
- Manchester Daily Examiner & Times
- Stratford Times and South Essex Gazette
- Bradford Observer
- Uttoxeter Advertiser and Ashbourne Times
- Bradford Review
- Pontypridd Observer
- Carmarthen Journal
- Port Talbot Guardian
- Radnor Express
- Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald
- Glamorgan Gazette
- Star of Gwent
FamilySearch
FindMyPast
- Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Births & Baptisms (22,945)
- Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Marriages (34,680)
- Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Deaths & Burials (195,979)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Norfolk, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 (2,763,034)
- Norfolk, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940 (1,925,088)
- Norfolk, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1990 (689,390)
- Norfolk, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 (2,206,507)
FamilySearch
- England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 (1,294) +1118
- England, Herefordshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1583-1898 (4,804) +2490
- England, Lancashire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1647-1996 (15,998)
- England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 (71,401) +89997
FindMyPast
Scotland
- Scotland, Burgess & Guild Brethren Index (60,000 additions; 126,319 new total)
- Wales Probate Records 1544-1858 (700,000 records, now fully searchable)
- Caernarvonshire Baptisms (Llanbeblig parish added)
- Caernarvonshire Marriages and Banns (Llanbeblig parish added)
- Caernarvonshire Burials (Llanbeblig parish added)
- Denbighshire Burials (37,000 additions from Wrexham Cemetery)
- Montgomeryshire Monumental Inscriptions (17,000)
FreeBMD
- Civil birth, marriage & death records for England and Wales (738,703)(363,574,238)
ScottishIndexes
- Paternity Index: Canonbie (Dumfriesshire) Kirk Session Minutes: Discipline cases/Illegitimacy 1709-1855
- Non-OPR Banns/Marriages: Canonbie Kirk Session: Irregular Marriages and 'Ante-nuptial fornication' cases 1709-1855
The Genealogist
- Poll Book Records (260,000 additions, 1747-1930)
Note: Manx National Heritage's collection of Isle of Man newspapers (1792-1960), will remain free to access in the future.
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New cultural project for Mullet peninsula to open 2022
Funding has been confirmed for a new cultural tourism project in North Mayo that will tell the story of the wild Atlantic and the people who lived along its dramatic coastline.
A €2.5m tourism hub – Áras Scéal an Atlantaigh Fhiáin in an Eachléim (Aghleam) – will be created on the southern tip of the Mullet Peninsula, one of the most stunning and unspoilt landscapes in Ireland. To the south and east is Blacksod Bay, while to the west is the Atlantic.
Eachléim is a Gaeltacht village and its new development will include an interpretive centre, an emigration hub, craft area, cafe, offices and an innovation space. This will be housed in a planned 303sqm extension to the Ionad Oidhreachta Deirbhile in an Eachléim.
Restoration and installation work will also be carried out at An Fód Dubh Lighthouse, 3.5km distant.
It is expected to attract 30,000 visitors to the region per year and will sustain 27 full-time positions.
Full funding is now in place (secured from two government departments and Údarás na Gaeltachta) and it is hoped the new centre will open to the public at the beginning of the 2022 tourism season.
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| An Eachléim (Aghleam) is a Gaeltacht village and townland in County Mayo. It lies on the southern tip of the Mullet Peninsula, one of the most beautiful and unspoilt landscapes in Ireland. |
Eachléim is a Gaeltacht village and its new development will include an interpretive centre, an emigration hub, craft area, cafe, offices and an innovation space. This will be housed in a planned 303sqm extension to the Ionad Oidhreachta Deirbhile in an Eachléim.
Restoration and installation work will also be carried out at An Fód Dubh Lighthouse, 3.5km distant.
It is expected to attract 30,000 visitors to the region per year and will sustain 27 full-time positions.
Full funding is now in place (secured from two government departments and Údarás na Gaeltachta) and it is hoped the new centre will open to the public at the beginning of the 2022 tourism season.
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