Family History ACT

The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc.

Introduction to Irish Genealogy Course – links

Purpose

This page is a page of links useful for Irish Genealogy and was used in a course presented at the ACT Heritage Library on 7 March 2020.

Civil registration Australia

NSW BDM
Qld BDM
Free BDM (England + Wales)
Scoltlands people (civil registration and more)(pay site)

Major genealogy sites

Family Search
Ancestry (Pay site)
Find my past (Pay site)
Note the above pay sites may be used for free at the HAGSOC library or at the NLA
Irish Origins (pay site)
RootsIreland (pay site)
Irish Genealogy (parish records + more)
Free Reg (England parish records)
NLI Sources

Libraries

National Library of Australia
NLA Catalogue
State Library NSW Catalogue
British Library
National Library of Ireland
Clare Library (Local history)

Parish records

Where to find CoI records
Catholic Registers at the NLI

Local History Sites

Limerick City Museum
Limerick Life

Meta sites

Cyndi List Ireland
Cora Num site
GENUKI
IGRS Links page

Guides

Claire Santry's toolbox
John Grenham genealogy

Blogs

John Grenham
Claire Santry

Newspapers

Trove
Irish Newspaper Archive (pay site)
British Newspapers from British Library (pay site)
Gale News Vault
My newspaper extracts

Maps

Ordnance Survey Ireland
Open Street Maps Ireland
Clare Maps

Townlands

1901 Index of townlands
1901 Index of townlands (Images)
Place names
Search the Griffith Valuation (and view maps)

Occupations

King's Inns Adission papers

Other finding aids

Discovery
PRONI
Internment net
Historical graves (GPS indexed MIs)
Ireland Genealogy Projects
1641 depositions

Registry of Deeds Index Project
Count of index records

1901 and 1911 Censuses
Tithe Applotment Books
Transportation database
Peter Mayberry's Convict database
Documenting Ireland Parliament People and Migration

Search engines

Google.com.au
Google Maps .au
Google Books
Project Gutenburgh
MS Bing
DuckDuckGo

Slides from the presentation