Irish Times Training: Tracing your Family History links

Useful links

• Surnames

  • Irish Times
  • IFHF surnames
  • Namex

• Place-names

  • Irish Times (1851 Townlands Index)
  • Sean Ruadh (1851 Townlands Index)
  • Irish Place Names (1851 Townlands Index)
  • Placenames Commission
  • P.W. Joyce, Irish Names of Place
  • Ordnance Survey
  • NI Ordnance survey

• Census records

  • National Archives
  • Townlands and DEDs in 1898
  • Maps of (rural) DEDs from 1935
    • North-East
    • North-West
    • South-East
    • South-West
  • Leitrim-Roscommon
  • Clare Library
  • Antrim 1851

• GRO records

  • www.familysearch.org (GRO indexes, births to first quarter, 1881, marriages and death to 1870?)
  • Waterford deaths

• Church records

  • Irish Genealogy
  • Rootsireland (registration and payment required)
  • Irish Times links to online transcripts

• Griffith's Valuation

  • Library Council
  • Leitrim-Roscommon

  Tithe Books

  • Background
  • Tithe Books

  The Genealogical Office

  • History and list of manuscripts
  • The Genealogical Office
  • McAnlis Index
  • Listing from Hayes' Maunscript Sources for the Study of Irish Civilization

• The Registry of Deeds

  • Registry of Deeds sample
  • Property Registration Authority
  • History and description
  • Registry of Deeds Index Project

• Directories

  • History and description
  • Pigot's (1824)
  • The Treble Almanack (1832)
  • Pettigrew and Oulton's Dublin Almanac 1842
  • Thom's Directory (1850)
  • Thom's Directory (1852)
  • Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846)
  • Guy's Postal Directory of Munster (1914)
  • Excellent collection of Cork Street and Trade directories
  • Belfast and Ulster directories

• Newspapers

  • History and description
  • Irish Newspaper Archives (Freeman's Journal/ Irish Independent)
  • The Irish Times
  • The Belfast Newsletter, 1737-1800
  • National Library Newspaper Holdings
  • British Library newspapers online

• Census substitutes

  • Ballyferriter
  • Reproductive Loan Fund
  • Dublin electoral lists
  • Ulster Covenant

• Occupational records

  • Find my past
  • Chelsea pensioners
  • WW1 'burnt documents'
  • Commonwealth Graves Commission
  • Royal Naval Seamen (1853-1923)
  • National Archives catalogue, Kew

• The Irish Abroad

  • North America
  • Steve Morse - U.S.
  • 'Missing Friends'
  • Australasia
  • New Zealand, Immigration Passenger Lists, 1855-1973
  • New Zealand Births, Deaths and Marriages
  • Early Australian censuses
  • Britain
  • Other
  • Queensland civil records

• Online Trees

  • Ancestry.com
  • TribalPages
  • Geni
  • Also Ancestry.com

• Genealogy software

  • Personal Ancestral File (Mormon)
  • Family Tree Maker
  • Roots Magic
  • The Master Genealogist