Recent projects
- 2008: Dublin City Freemen
- 2005-07: Dublin City Electoral Lists.
Dublin City Library and Archive have an extremely extensive collection of voters' lists between 1937 and 2004. These can be particularly useful in tracing the movements of families within in the city, year by year. However, until now they have been very awkward to use, requiring a street address and not searchable by surname. As part of the Genealogist-in-Residence programme, I designed the database structure, the functional specification and the SQL, and assisted KCO in implementing a browser-based application using IIS, PHP and MySQL, with a database transcript linked to scans of the original pages. The application was completed in June 2007, and includes 4.1 million records. It is available in the reading room. A single year, 1939-1940, is searchable online at www.dublinheritage.ie.
- 2005: Bethel Welsh Chapel (Dublin) Baptisms and Marriages from 1839.
Again, as part of the Genealogist-in-Residence programme, I produced a database application for users to search the registers of this small Dublin chapel, catering mainly for Welsh-speakers. It is available in Dublin City Library and Archive reading room.
- 2005: Representative Church Body Library Portraits
A Microsoft Access application to allow the Library to catalogue its extensive collection of protraits of Church of Ireland clergymen, by subject, medium, artist and period.