Ireland
A Free Irish Genealogy Treasure Trove
This post looks at a very useful free Irish genealogy resource; Shane Wilson’s swilson.info website. The site is packed full of historic maps, directories, databases and other useful information to help you find your [...]
Find your British and Irish Ancestors in Newspapers
Newspapers are an incredibly useful resource for genealogists as well as other historians researching the UK and Ireland. If you are looking for your British roots or investigating British history, then the most comprehensive [...]
125 Free Irish Genealogy Online Resources
A few years ago, it was very difficult to find online resources to research your Irish ancestry. Thankfully, the situation now is completely different and there a wealth of information to discover. The good [...]
How to use John Grenham’s Irish Ancestors Website
If you have Irish roots, you’ll probably have already discovered that looking for your ancestors in Ireland is not easy. This is because so many records have been lost, especially after the 1922 fire [...]
Griffith’s Valuation: A Free Irish Genealogy Gem
The loss of most pre-1901 census records in Ireland means that it can be extremely difficult to locate your Irish ancestors in the 19th century. So, alternative records need to be found. One very [...]
120 Free Genealogy Websites
Family history can be an expensive pastime. The costs can mount up with annual subscriptions and with buying documents. However, the good news is that there are a lot of free genealogy websites out [...]
Irish Genealogy Records: Fire and Reconstruction
Those of you with Irish ancestry will know how difficult it is to make progress in researching your roots. One of the main reasons for this is due to the loss of some key [...]
Find your British and Irish Ancestry for Free
If you have British and/or Irish roots, is it possible to find your ancestors online without paying? That’s a question I’m sometimes asked. So I thought it would be useful to have a run [...]
Using Free Irish Catholic Parish Records
This article looks at one of the most important online record sets for Irish genealogy research; Irish Catholic parish records; specifically, the great free resource held by the National Library of Ireland on their [...]
Essential British and Irish Genealogy Books
This post looks at 26 of the best genealogy books for British and Irish research. Everything you need to know about researching your ancestors from these countries is covered in these books. There are [...]
The Top 25 Irish Genealogy Online Record Collections
Irish genealogy research has traditionally been quite difficult, due mainly to many important records being lost, especially in the Dublin fire of 1922. However, in recent years it has got much easier with millions [...]
Where to find British and Irish Burial Records
Before civil registration in Britain and Ireland, the only record of the death of a person was often a burial record. Even after civil registration, burial records and monumental inscriptions can be very useful [...]
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