Sources

Sources that are only relevant to one page will be found on that page.Sources that are only relevant to one family will be found on the home page for that family.

National Library of Ireland.From here





In my lifetime, technology has greatly changed and enhanced both visits to libraries and access to remote libraries: Can bring tablet to library and can access my files and my website from my library desk. Can bring phone to library and take huge numbers of digital photos of documents, to read in detail later. Often on visits now, the main aim is to photograph , not to read stuff. Libraries in Ireland and in foreign countries publish material online , so I can research from home.

This is all the norm for people growing up now. But it is a wonderful dream for people like me who started researching in the 1980s.

Irish Archives Resource

Copac - Combined catalog of UK and Irish libraries. Books

- Combined catalog of UK and Irish libraries.

GROI - General Register Office

LR - Land Registry

Land registration in Ireland

Property Registration Authority (formerly Land Registry) LandDirect.ie online service (pay-to-view).

It is unclear what this is. Don't think any old material or old indexes are online. Current records (Dublin) - Land Registry, Setanta Centre, Nassau St Current records (Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary) - Land Registry, Cork Road, Waterford

Registry of Deeds (since 1708) Historical archive - Registry of Deeds, Kings Inns, Henrietta St, Dublin. Does not have full deeds. Has short memorials (summaries) of deeds in basement as loose sheets. Can pay to view these. Has transcript copies of these short memorials in (easier to access) tombstone books in research room. Should be identical.

Images online at [LDS] Full coverage of images. Though no transcripts and not indexed. Images of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929. Long list of records. See RHS column for link to image volumes. In image volumes: Enter page number to jump around.



I did a quick index into the LR pages: Grantor index Place index Deeds



Registry of Deeds Index Project Transcripts online. Limited coverage but very useful. If indexing in LR itself is wrong (which can happen) try using the following to find out where the deed really is: Samples by volume Search for deeds between A and B (close to target deed)

VO - Valuation Office, Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street Lower. Valuation Lists - Can track owner/occupant of all properties from [Griffiths Valuation] through late 19th - early 20th century. Substitute census for 1850 to 1900. Some VO books online at findmypast.ie (pay to view).

Eneclann do Irish house histories research service

UK military

Irish police and military

The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders. This CD is very hard to use: No original documents. No PDFs. Only transcripts in database. Need program to access database. Need to install program. Program only runs on Windows. To run program, need CD in drive each time. 1916-23 period



BL - British Library

NA.UK - National Archives (UK)

Immigration and passenger lists

User-submitted trees

The following sites (e.g. Ancestry) host user-submitted trees.

User-submitted trees vary widely in quality. Some are professional and document their sources. Others are amateur gibberish.

Ancestry is probably the worst: Ancestry has many terrible features: (a) It is hard to add background notes and sources. (b) It is hard to document uncertainty or multiple theories. (c) It is easy to copy other people's trees. Bad data gets replicated again and again. On Ancestry, it is hard to trace the source of bad data and get it fixed. People copy thousands of names of a tree and walk away and never do any research and bad data is never changed. You contact someone to ask about the source of their data, and, if they reply, they say it was copied from another tree, which copied from another tree, and so on. It is often impossible to find the true source of anything. In general, I do not believe anything on Ancestry (in user-submitted trees). I use Ancestry as an aid to search for real sources.

WikiTree is better: WikiTree (see site) has a better culture of documenting sources and cross-checking information. The lack of infinite duplication of entries really helps. There is still some amateur work on it though.



Other

Encyclopedia

Biography

Irish biography

Other big genealogy sites, with user-submitted trees.





Summary 8 censuses from 1821 to 1891 existed but were all destroyed by 1922. Imagine what incredible family history was lost in these. The censuses for 1901 and 1911 survive. Next one to be public will be 1926 census in 2026.

Census online

1851 Dublin City Census (between the canals only) This was an early CD that is very hard to use. You have to go through a program rather than having the data as PDF files that you can browse . The program is old (pre-Windows XP).

UK census, 1901

Census of Ireland, 1911

Heritage Centres and Local Libraries

Royal Descents

Early Burke's Peerage is not very reliable. Use with caution. Later Burke's Peerage is good.This is the most reliable Peerage and Baronetage.

Other Peerage

Burke's Extinct Peerage and Burke's Extinct Baronetage are so unreliable that I am phasing them out as sources entirely.

1st series Vol.1, 1868. (This is vol.1 plus truncated vol.2.) And here. And here. And here. Vol.2, 1876.

New series (2nd series) Vol.1, 1874. And here. Vol.2, 1877. Vol.3, 1881. And here. Vol.4, 1883.

3rd series Vol.2, 1898. Vol.4, 1902. Vol.5, 1904.

4th series Vol.2, 1908. Vol.3, 1910. Vol.4, 1910-11 (NOT 1912). Vol.5, 1912-13.

5th series Vol.5, 1923-25.



[NLI] 92905 m 1 (offsite, order in advance).Volumes online: John O'Hart is not very reliable. He starts off with myths - Adam, the Deluge, Milesius , and so on. The myths rather cast doubt on his work in historical periods. Some of his early modern pedigrees may be accurate. But everything needs to be cross-checked.

Families - Other



