RootsIreland.ie has added 16,531 Roman Catholic baptism records from Dingle parish to its Kerry database. They run from 1823 to 1899. Marriage records for the same parish were already available.
For an up to date list of all the online sources for County Kerry, click the image, right.
Monday 7 November: The Names Have It, a talk by Moira Concannon. A hybrid event hosted by the North of Ireland Family History Society, Killyleagh Branch. 8pm. All welcome. In-person venue: Killyleagh Masonic Hall, 50 High Street, Killyleagh, Downpatrick BT30 9QF. Details
Monday 7 November: Ferries on the Foyle, with Dr Jim Condren. An in-person and online event hosted by the North of Ireland Family History Society, Foyle Branch. Venue:Lecture Room Derry's Central Library 35 Foyle Street, Derry. 7pm - 8:30pm. Details.
Tuesday 8 November: Lost meeting houses of Belfast, an in-person event with Tom Hartley. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Lisburn Branch. Venue: Bridge Community Centre 50 Railway Street, Lisburn, Co. Down BT28 1XP. 7:30pm–9pm GMT.
Tuesday 8 November: Connemara Irish: Despair in the Heartland of Minnesota, an online talk by Jane Kennedy. Hosted by the Genealogical Society of Ireland (GSI). 8pm. All welcome. Non-members can obtain zoom links by emailing Membership@Familyhistory.ie
Wednesday 8 November: Treasured Heritage - Researching your place of worship, an in-person talk and tour from the National Churches Trust. Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9HQ. 09:15–13:00 GMT. Details.
Wednesday 9 November: Victory through faith – the political activation of the Wehrmacht, an online lecture with Katherine Quinlan-Flatter. Hosts: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the Antrim and Down branch of the Western Front Association. 7pm to 8pm. All welcome. Free but need to register in advance. Details.
Wednsday 9 November: Using the Leeds Method – making sense of DNA matches, an online class with Anne Johnston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. 7pm. Tickets £10. Need to book. Details.
Wednesday 9 November: Carrickfergus Churchyard: Stories behind the stones, with Dr William Roulston. An in-person event to be held at Carrickfergus Town Hall, Joymount, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim BT38 7DN at 7pm. Hosted by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Free. Book your seat by phoning 028 9335 8241 or email carrickfergusmuseums@midandeastantrim.gov.uk.
Thursday 10 November: 'We have found a better way, Boys': Reassessing Anna and Fanny Parnell, with Dr Diane Urquart. An in-person lecture at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. 1pm. Free. All welcome. Booking recommended. Phone 01 609 0602.
Saturday 12 November: Family History Research at the National Library of Ireland (NLI), an online talk with Steven Skeldon from the NLI's Family History Services. Host: Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS). 14:30–16:00 IST/GMT. All welcome. Free to members. €5 for non-members. Details and booking.
Saturday 12 November: Commemoration and burial practices of the Scots in 17th century Ireland, an online lecture by Dr William Roulston. Hosted by the Church Monuments Society. Everybody welcome. 5pm to 6pm. Free but need to reserve your place. Details and booking.
Sunday 13 November: The Irish Civil War in Colour: Michael B Barry and John O'Byrne in conversation with David McCullagh about their new book. An in-person event. 4pm to 5pm. Venue: RDS Library, Anglesea Road, Dublin 4. Free. Need to register. Details.
Sunday 13 November: Military Archives: A History, a discussion by Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland, with Zoe Reid and Daniel Alyotis. Part of the Dublin Book Festival. An in-person event. 2pm to 3pm. Venue: RDS Library, Anglesea Road, Dublin 4. Free, but need to register.
Monday 14 November My Ruiger Family Heritage, with Joe Lavery. An online event hosted by North of Ireland Family History Society, Newtownabbey Branch. All welcome. 7pm–8:30pm GMT. Those wishing to attend should e-mail Newtownabbey@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.
Tuesday 15 November: Garda na Pobal – The foundation of An Garda Siochana, 1922, with Dr John Reynolds. An in-person event and part of the Tipperary People and Places Lecture series no.16. Host: Tipperary Studies, the local history dept. of Tipperary County Librairies. 7pm. Free. Venue: Gallery of the Source Library, Thurles. Tea and coffeee served. All welcome. Details.
Tuesday 15 November: The Civil War Legacy: Ireland in the 1920s and 30s, an online lecture by Professor Fearghal McGarry, QUB. Host: National Library of Ireland. All welcome. 7pm GMT. Free, but need to book.
Tuesday 15 November: Dr. Ella Webb (1877-1946): "Children need help and I am going to help them," an in-person event with Dr Declan Warde. Host: Foxrock Local History Society. Venue: Foxrock Pastoral Centre, Kill Lane, Foxrock, Co Dublin. 8pm. All welcome. Members free. Non-members €5 on the door.
Wednesday 16 November: A long hard road: a story of Famine Migration, an online talk with John Grenham. Host: Libraries NI, Heritage from Home Series 3. 12:30pm. All welcome. Free but need to register here.
Thursday 17 November: Book Launch: Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700 Suppression, Migration and Reintegration, by Dr Bronagh Ann McShane. Moore institute. Register.
Thursday 17 November: Genealogy advisory evening at Wicklow Local Studies, Salthouse Lane, Wicklow Town. An in-person, drop-in event. Free. All welcome. First come, first served. 6:30pm to 8P30pm.
Saturday 19 November: Wading through blood: de Valera and the Civil War, an online lecture with David McCullagh. Host: Decade of Centenaries programme of South Dublin County Libraries. 1pm. Free but need to book. Booking and details.
Below is a summary of newly released and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (Previous summary, 27 October.)
My regular summary of releases and updates 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. Where two figures are given, the first is the number of additions, the second is the new total.
Please note that I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
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FamilySearch.org has added another couple of record sets to it Ireland collection. They are:
Betham’s Genealogical Abstracts, 1179–1830
In these pages, he drafted and reconstructed family trees and pedigrees, and recorded abstracts from pre-1800 wills, grants and administrations; chancery pleadings; funeral entries; and other miscellaneous records. These notebooks are held by the National Archive of Ireland and were microfilmed by FamilySearch some years ago. The microfilms have now been digitised, resulting in 489,774 indexed records.
Betham made his notes and abstracts mainly, but not exclusively, from records held in the Public Records Office in Dublin which were subsequently lost during the Irish Civil War in June 1922.
Ireland, Original Will Registers, 1858-1920
This collection holds a detailed index of hand-written copies of wills proved from 1858 in District Registries across the counties that are now in the Republic of Ireland. They are word-for-word exact replacements for the original wills lost in the 1922 fire. (The Registers for Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry are held in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.) Unfortunately, no such copies survived for the Principal Registry, where wills for those who died in Dublin, or who had large estates in multiple locations, were processed and recorded.
Images are available on the National Archives of Ireland's free Genealogy site, which says there are more than 550,000 indexed names in the collection. The FamilySearch collection indicates that it holds slightly more than 181,000 name records, so I think the upload of the collection is not yet completed. At present the site is saying that images can be accessed only at a family history center or at an affiliate library; for many people, continuing to access this collection via the NAI site (link above) will remain an easier option.
I can't remember the last time a monthly update of the latest additions to Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives included batches of records from eight counties. Eight! That's some going for a project that is completely reliant on volunteers for all its imput.
The October additions accounted for eight burial grounds – one-a-piece per county, and all with text files if inscriptions linked to a respective photo of the headstone. Here are the basic details:
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| A granite stone in Arklow's Main Street graveyard stands in memory of James Byrne who died in 1763. Photo courtesy of Emma Cullen and IGP Archives. Click for enlarged view. |
CAVAN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St Patrick's Graveyard, Corlough (Updated)
DONEGAL Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St. Peters Graveyard, Killaghtee
DUBLIN Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Kilbarrack Graveyard - Part 5, Sutton
KILDARE Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Confey Cemetery, Leixlip (Updated)
LEITRIM Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St. Brigid's Graveyard (CoI), Kiltubrid
LIMERICK Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Holy Cross Cemetery Part 2, Athea
OFFALY Genealogy Archives - Headstones
St. Colmcille Church Graveyard, Durrow (Updated)
WICKLOW Genealogy Archives - Headstones
Main Street Graveyard, Arklow
Monday 31 October: Bank holiday in the Republic of Ireland only. (Business as usual in Northern Ireland)
Tuesday 1 November: Sex, Sectarianism(?) and the City: A Queer History for Belfast, 1890-1968, a hybrid event with Dr Tom Hulme of QUB. Host: Irish Historical Society. Venue: Boston College Ireland, 43 Saint Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Online via zoom. 7pm. Free. All welcome. Registration and details at Eventbrite.
Tuesday 1 November: The Irish Civil War and Northern Ireland, an online lecture with Dr Adrian Grant. Host: National Library of Ireland. 7pm to 8pm. Free. All welcome. Need to book.
Wednesday 2 November: Irish Speaking Soldiers from East Belfast in the First World War, a talk with Dr Carmel Duggan, to coincide with the launch of a new exhibition. In-person event. Venue: Linen Hall Library, 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast. 2pm–3pm. Free but need to book. Details.
Wednesday 2 November: William Pirrie - Home Ruler, Liberal and Titanic builder, with Mark Doherty. An in-person event from the City Cemetery Series. Venue: Áras Uí Chonghaile; The James Connolly Visitor Centre, 374-376 Falls Road, Belfast. 7pm to 8.15pm. All welcome. Free. Booking advised.
Thursday 3 November: 'Oh! Jammie what have you done?': Traumatic assaults on women and imaginative resistance in mid-twentieth century Irish folklore, with Dr Christina Brophy. An online talk hosted by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in conjunction with The Ulster Society of Irish Historical Studies. 7pm to 8pm. Free. All welcome. Need to register.
Thursday 3 November: Policing in Ireland 1922, with Jim Herlihy. An in-person talk. Host: Cork City Libraries. Venue: Mayfield Library, Old Youghal Road, Montenotte, Cork City. 3pm. All welcome.
Friday 4 November: Amritsar 1919. The event that rocked an empire, an in-person talk with Michael Whelan. Venue: St. Patrick's Gateway Centre, Patrick Street, Waterford City. Tickets €6.19. Details.
Friday 4 November: Sheep led by lions? The Catholic Armies 1641-1643, with Dr Pádraig Lenihan. An in-person event hosted by the Military History Society of Ireland. Venue: Arthur Griffith Building, South Circular Road, Dublin 8. 8pm to 10pm. Free. All welcome. Need to register.
Saturday 5 November: Amalgamating Your DNA Match Lists, an online zoom class with Martin McDowell. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. 2pm. Cost: £10. Book your place while tickets last.
Saturday 5 November: Did your ancestor fight in WW1? A free, in-person research facility will be hosted by the Western Front Association at St. Peter's Cork, 87A North Main Street, Cork City, for anyone looking for information on an ancestor who fought in the Great War. 10:30am–2:30pm. In association with the below event. All welcome.
Saturday 5 November: Cork's Victoria Cross Recipients of the Great War, with Gerry White. An in-person event. 1pm to 2pm. Tickets: €6.16, including booking fee. Register here. Venue: St. Peter's Cork, 87A North Main Street, Cork City. See above event being held at same venue.
Monday 7 November: The Names Have It, a talk by Moira Concannon. A hybrid event hosted by the North of Ireland Family History Society, Killyleagh Branch. 8pm. All welcome. In-person venue: Killyleagh Masonic Hall, 50 High Street, Killyleagh, Downpatrick BT30 9QF. Details
Monday 7 November: Ferries on the Foyle, with Dr Jim Condren. An in-person and online event hosted by the North of Ireland Family History Society, Foyle Branch. Venue:Lecture Room Derry's Central Library 35 Foyle Street, Derry. 7pm - 8:30pm. Details.
Tuesday 8 November: Lost meeting houses of Belfast, an in-person event with Tom Hartley. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society, Lisburn Branch. Venue: Bridge Community Centre 50 Railway Street, Lisburn, Co. Down BT28 1XP. 7:30pm–9pm GMT.
Tuesday 8 November: Connemara Irish: Despair in the Heartland of Minnesota, an online talk by Jane Kennedy. Hosted by the Genealogical Society of Ireland (GSI). 8pm. All welcome. Non-members can obtain zoom links by emailing Membership@Familyhistory.ie
Wednesday 8 November: Treasured Heritage - Researching your place of worship, an in-person talk and tour from the National Churches Trust. Host and venue: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9HQ. 09:15–13:00 GMT. Details.
Wednesday 9 November: Victory through faith – the political activation of the Wehrmacht, an online lecture with Katherine Quinlan-Flatter. Hosts: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the Antrim and Down branch of the Western Front Association. 7pm to 8pm. All welcome. Free but need to register in advance. Details.
Wednsday 9 November: Using the Leeds Method – making sense of DNA matches, an online class with Anne Johnston. Host: North of Ireland Family History Society. 7pm. Tickets £10. Need to book. Details.
Thursday 10 November: 'We have found a better way, Boys': Reassessing Anna and Fanny Parnell, with Dr Diane Urquart. An in-person lecture at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. 1pm. Free. All welcome. Booking recommended. Phone 01 609 0602.
Saturday 12 November: Family History Research at the National Library of Ireland (NLI), an online talk with Steven Skeldon from the NLI's Family History Services. Host: Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS). 14:30–16:00 IST/GMT. All welcome. Free to members. €5 for non-members. Details and booking.
Sunday 13 November: The Irish Civil War in Colour: Michael B Barry and John O'Byrne in conversation with David McCullagh about their new book. An in-person event. 4pm to 5pm. Venue: RDS Library, Anglesea Road, Dublin 4. Free. Need to register. Details.
Sunday 13 November: Military Archives: A History, a discussion by Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland, with Zoe Reid and Daniel Alyotis. Part of the Dublin Book Festival. An in-person event. 2pm to 3pm. Venue: RDS Library, Anglesea Road, Dublin 4. Free, but need to register.
Below is a summary of newly released and updated family history record collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (Previous summary, 10 October.)
My regular summary of releases and updates 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. Where two figures are given, the first is the number of additions, the second is the new total.
Please note that I don't usually include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
Some of the above content contains affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission if you buy via these links. This does not affect the price you pay as a consumer, but it does contribute to keeping Irish Genealogy News online. See Advertising Disclosure tab above.
FindMyPast is offering 20% off many of its subscription packages.
Choose from the FindMyPast 'territories' below and click the link. On the landing page the savings will have been applied so you can will see the discounted prices of each offer and can select your preferred package.
These sale, although not billed as a Halloween discount, will spookily disappear just seconds before the clocks hit midnight on Monday 31 October. That means 11:59pm GMT!
Some of the above content contains affiliate links. This means I may earn a small commission if you buy via these links. This does not affect the price you pay as a consumer, but it does contribute to keeping Irish Genealogy News online. See Advertising Disclosure tab above.
A new collection of manuscripts relating to the Cooke family of Borrisoleigh and the Grene family of Cappamurra and Dublin has been added to Tipperary Studies' digital archive.
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| Manuscript family tree of the Grene family from C1th-C19th. Cooke of Garrengrena collection. Click for enlarged view. |
The documents are free to view and download as PDFs.
Among the papers are genealogies of the Cooke and Grene families, family letters, leases, wills and other legal papers mainly dating to the 19th century. Together they create a snapshot of middle-class life in Ireland over the course of the 1800s.
The Cooke and Grene families were connected by the marriage of Elizabeth Grene to John Cooke of Borrisoleigh JP and most of the land documents relate to the Borrisoleigh holdings. The letters are predominantly from the Grene family.
Explore the Cooke of Garrengrena collection.Below is a summary of US family history collections released or updated by the major genealogy databases in the last three weeks or so. (Previous summary published 5 October, see blogpost).
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 or images in each new record set, if provided by the database.
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, and/or the revised total. I rarely include updates of fewer than 1,000 records.
