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Irish Genealogy News publishes its final blogpost
And so it ends. After 14 years and 5,764 blogposts, Irish Genealogy News is taking its leave. Kind of. There will be no new blogposts but those that have already been published will remain online for a while... probably until the domain name comes up for renewal. My website – Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com – will also be continuing for the time being.
Irish Registry of Deeds Index Project: July 2024 update
The Irish Registry of Deeds Index Project has been updated and the main Index now holds 595,067 index records from 61,422 memorials of deeds. They are freely searchable. Every one of these memorials has been indexed by a volunteer, releasing fascinating genealogical information unlikely to be available elsewhere, and likely to remain hidden away, undigitised, in Dublin's Registry of Deeds for many years yet.
Rolling years of civil BMD registers added to IrishGenealogy.ie
An additional year of historic Births, Marriages and Deaths (index entry + register image) has been added to IrishGenealogy.ie, the state-managed, free database. This update means the civil records now available to search and view on the site are: Birth register index and images – 1864 to 1922 Marriage register index and images – 1845 to 1947 Death register index 1864 to 1972. Images 1871 to 1972 only. Unfortunately, no sign yet of the register images for deaths from 1864 to 1870.
New digital archive and database of Irish Catholic clergy launches
A new digital archive and database of the Irish clerical population from medieval to modern times has been launched out of Maynooth University's Arts and Humanities Institute. It's called Clericus.ie. The first phase of the Clericus project focussed on students and faculty of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, historically Ireland's largest seminary and pontifical university.
11 Best Websites for Researching Irish Ancestors
While the 1922 fire did consume many Irish records, online databases offer hope to genealogists researching Irish ancestry. If you’re tracing (or trying to trace) Irish ancestors, you may have heard that “all the records burned in the fire”—the 1922 Four Courts Fire at the Public Record Office in Dublin, an unfortunate event of the Irish Civil War. But this is a myth that online Irish family history databases are doing their level best to shatter, and rightly so.
Book launch: A Bloody Dawn: The Irish at D-Day
A Bloody Dawn: The Irish at D-Day, by Dan Harvey, tells of the Irish contribution to D-Day – the most extraordinatry military operation ever attempted in the history of warfare. The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, began the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control, laying the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. It's been well chronicled.
Nottinghamshire: Jewel of the Midlands
Take time to seek out the secrets of Nottinghamshire from its ice age mysteries to its little known Gothic masterpiece and you are in for a treat After centuries of living and breathing the Robin Hood legend, in which the good guys rob the rich to give to the poor, Nottinghamshire wears its jewels modestly.
Free access to MyHeritage's Irish, UK, US & Canadian census collections until 20 August
To celebrate its database passing its 8billion records milestone earlier this month, My Heritage is opening up its collection of one billion census records for seven days. While Irish family historians are accustomed to having year-round free access to Ireland's 1901 and 1911 censuses, it's not often there's a chance to delve into the US (1790-1940), Canadian (1825-1911) and England/Wales (1841-1911) collections without charge.
Final tranche of National Archives of Ireland's 'crown jewels' collection is ready for online debut
The last tranche of the National Archives of Ireland's 'crown jewels' will be uploaded to the NAI's Genealogy website very soon. I have no certain date, but anything from a couple of days to a couple of weeks looks likely. The project to digitise and release online – free of charge – many of the most important records used by Irish genealogists started in 2007 with the online launch of the 1911 census for Dublin and has continued with regular additions for the last nine years.
Irish genealogy, history & heritage events, 13-26 June
Tuesday 14 June: 19th-century beggars in Ireland, with Sean Bagnall. Host: Tallaght Historical Society. Venue: Tallaght Library, Library Square, Dublin 24. 7pm. Free. All welcome.Tuesday 14 June: The Great Monumental Avenue of the City: O'Connell Street and Town Planning, 1911–1916, with Brian Ward. Part of the Capstones Shift Lecture Series. Hosts: Irish Architectural Archive, Architecture Ireland and RIAI. Venue: Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI), 8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. 6–7pm.
The legend of Saint Patrick
The legend of Saint Patrick has evolved during the 1500-odd years since the missionary brought Christianity to Ireland. Much embellished in the telling, his story has become a mixture of truth, myth and allegory. There's an overview of the saint's life on the History of St Patrick page, but read on below for some of the myths about his mission in Ireland.
11 Best Websites for Researching Irish Ancestors
If you’re tracing (or trying to trace) Irish ancestors, you may have heard that “all the records burned in the fire”—the 1922 Four Courts Fire at the Public Record Office in Dublin, an unfortunate event of the Irish Civil War. But this is a myth that online Irish family history databases are doing their level best to shatter, and rightly so.
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