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You’ll find a listing of 70 excellent resources for Irish research at the Crestleaf blog. Following is a teaser: For the 33.3 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry, it can be an overwhelming task to sift through the plentiful Irish Continue reading 70 Great Resources for Irish Research
If you have Irish ancestry – as 34.5 million Americans do – then you’re in luck when it comes to finding free online resources that help with your ancestral search. In fact there’s a website that’s dedicated to making these Continue reading Finding FREE Irish Genealogy eBooks Online
My friend, Megan Smolenyak, recently wrote an article published in Irish America Magazine, and picked up at Irish Central.com. She’s done a lot of research on his family, and in the article, she digs into it. The following teaser is Continue reading Stephen Colbert’s Irish Ancestry
The following excerpt is from a February 3, 2015 announcement at the University College Dublin website: The incorporation of the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), a new University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company with charitable status, was announced today. Continue reading National Folklore Foundation Incorporation Announced by University College Dublin
Scots-Irish research is extremely popular in the United States. It should be, considering that there’s a good chance that if we have colonial ancestry, we may very well have Scots-Irish ancestry. These two quick reference guides – one being Scots-Irish Continue reading Scots-Irish Genealogy Research Bundle of 2 Quick Reference items at 20% Off + a FREE eBook Download!
The following news release is from Findmypast.com: With the addition of exciting new record sets, leading family history website Findmypast is now the best place to research your Irish ancestry Dublin, Ireland. 23 January 2015. Findmypast has digitised and is Continue reading Irish Poverty Relief Loan records Available FREE at Findmypast to mark Irish Family History Day #Genealogy
The following teaser is from an article by Michael Kelly, published at the Catholic News Service website. DUBLIN (CNS) – The Catholic Church and the National Library of Ireland have partnered to make almost 400,000 images of Catholic parish register Continue reading They Catholic Church & the National Library of Ireland to Make Parish Records Free Online
Family Roots Publishing now stocks Tracing Your Kildare Ancestors; by Karel Kiley, Marion Corrigan and James Durney. It was printed in Dublin in 2014 and is one more of the Tracing guides from Flyleaf Press. This new title is a Continue reading Tracing Your Kildare Ancestors
Margaret Franklin wrote a second edition of her popular Irish research guidebook, Tracing your Limerick Ancestors in 2013. Family Roots Publishing has obtained a stock of them from Ireland. Margaret Franklin is the local history specialist in Limerick County Library. Continue reading Tracing your Limerick Ancestors, Second Edition – Now Available
Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores is a scholarly book, full of details and amassed facts in an effort to explain the mass migrations from the war torn Rhine Valley in the Continue reading Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores
According to an announcement published in the DonsidePiper.co.uk website today, Aberdeenshire Council’s burial records have been added to website www.deceasedonline.com. The website is a pay-per-view, and now subscription website specializing in burial and cremations registers for the UK and the Continue reading Aberdeenshire Council’s Burial Records Added at DeceasedOnline.com
The following teaser is from an article written by Pól Ó Conghaile and posted in the July 30, 2014 edition of independent.ie. New research has traced Princess Charlene of Monaco’s ancestors back to the 1520s and a prominent Dublin family Continue reading Monaco’s Princess Charlene Presented with a Certificate of Irish Heritage
There are many theories behind the actual cause of the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1849. Some focus on specific topics of population density, crop production, politics, the prevalent owner-tenant land system of the day, etc. Of course, history Continue reading Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
A while back, Family Roots Publishing got in two Irish Research books – one a book on Irish research in New York City, and the other on Irish history. The Irish research in New York book is brand new (2014) Continue reading Irish Research Bundle – Again at 15% Off Thru May 15, 2014
A month and a half before we put on our sombreros, sing about a drunk cockroach, and eat too many tacos in the cultural celebration acknowledging our southern neighbors on Cinco de Mayo, we will first don a little green Continue reading 101 Things You Didn’t Know about Irish History — 15% Off through Midnight Thursday, April 24