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• Ancestry.com - Ireland Genealogy & Ireland Family History Resources

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

  • Ireland Databases

  • Ireland Visitation

    Recording the pedigrees of the families using coats of arms to prove their right to bear the arms by showing their connections back to the original bearers. Original source: Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. Visitation of Ireland. London, England: 1897-1918.

• Ancestry.com - Ireland, Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland Membership Registers, 1733-1923 $

  Original source: Freemasons of Ireland Membership Registers. The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

• Ancestry.com - Northern Ireland Genealogy & Northern Ireland Family History Resources

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Cantwell - Ireland Genealogy History

  Ireland research resource with indexes of names, places & occupations from B.J. Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead, Ian Cantwell's Memorials of the Dead & 1798 Rebellion Claimants and Surrenders. All CD publications. Each set of indexes covers surnames, places and occupations. For genealogists and family historians the listing of surnames and their variants will assist in the use of online search engines and other research tools while the indexes of places and occupations will benefit those who are carrying out in-depth historical and geographical research of Irish people and their links abroad.

• Counties in Ireland - Ireland IGI Batch Numbers

  • Civil Birth Records

  • Misc

  • Special Batches

• Eddies Extracts

  Birth, marriage and death notices and news extracts from various Belfast Newspapers plus many other extracts including the names of over 25,000 Presbyterians who served in the Great War, Deceased Seamen and several books.

• Findmypast $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Join Findmypast and you

• Following the money

  What happened to slave owners in Ireland after slavery was abolished? They were handsomely compensated. By Liam Hogan, Limerick City Library.

  • The Irish claimants

    A spreadsheet of compensation given to Irish slaveholders.

• IED - Irish Emigration Database

  The Irish Emigration Database is a collection of emigration-related primary sources such as letters to and from emigrants, compiled by the Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh.

• Ireland Genealogy $

  Easily search tens of thousands of Irish 1841/51 Pension Records for hard-to-find Irish census data. Pay for a copy of the record.

• Irish Shipwrecks Database

  Irish Shipwrecks database is a searchable database of ship wrecks on and off the Irish Coast. Each entry is accompanied by a news paper report of the loss often containing passenger and crew names . The Shipwrecks database also contains ships specifications transcribed from Lloyds Shipping Register and British Mercantile Navy Lists.

• Lost and Found in the U.K.

  Collection of strays in the UK and Ireland.

• The National Archives (U.K.)

  Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom.

  • Discovery - Explore the catalogue

    Descriptions of more than 10 million records held by The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. The visitor may either search or browse through the descriptions. Images of the documents are not available. Visitors can request copies online and can also place advance orders for the day of their visit.

    • Discovery Help

    • Research Guides: A to Z

      This is an alphabetical list of the topical Research Guides. The guides help you find what you need in the catalogue, so this should be the first thing you consult.

  • Discovery - Explore the catalogue

    • Moving Here - 200 years of Migration to England

    • Research Guides - Online Collections

      Searching the index is free. There is a small fee to download a digital image of a document.

  • Family History

  • House History

  • Military History

  • Towns and Cities

• The Workhouse - The history of the workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

  Provides information on many of the workhouses in the United Kingdom including their history, constituent parishes, location, and often pictures. Provides lists of staff and inmates from the 1881 Census for some workhouses and often gives the current location of the workhouse records with a brief inventory.

  • Poor Law Union Maps

  • Poor Law Unions in Ireland

  • The History of Poor Law Unions

  • Workhouse Records and Archives

• Thinking of Genealogy - A Resource for Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) information, and more

  Over 500 pages of information, mainly transcribed. Sections on: Ireland (hundreds of census extracts, Griffith's Valuation), Wales, and England. Lots of parish records also transcribed, and directories, by occupation. I have lost count of the hours I've spent transcribing, or re-entering data into spreadsheets in my research, and I've made all this available for free to my visitors. There's even a message board available to help each other out with questions.

• Using Written Archives To Find Out About The History Of Your House

  From the companion web site to the BBC television series on public records in the United Kingdom Breaking the Seal.

• Workhouses in Ireland

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