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1901 Census

Family History

Freeholder's Records

Lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections. A freeholder was a man who owned his land outright (in fee) or who held it by lease which could be for one or more lives (for example, his own life or for the lives of other people named in the lease). Search includes surname & forename as well as address and a scanned image of the printed list where the name appears.

Guide to Gravestone Inscriptions

How To Trace Your Family Tree

Local History

Street Directories

Original volumes held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) covering the years 1819 to 1900.

The Ulster Covenant

Contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration. In total, the Covenant was signed by 237,368 men, and the Declaration by 234,046 women. Search provides surname & forename as well as address and a scanned image of their signature.

Wills

The first phase of a project to index and digitise all the early wills that were proved in the District Probate Registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry from 1858 to c.1900. View the entire will calendar entry for each successful search. The second phase will link the index entries to both the will calendar entries and the copy wills images.

Local History & Genealogy

Cyril Johnson Room

Genealogical Resources at the Philadelphia City Archives

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Genealogy

History

History & Genealogy Department

Local History and Genealogy at the Public Library