Insights into 1881 Irish census
Although no part of the 1881 Irish census survives, the general report gives a fascinating insight into the information returned that year. If you know where your Irish ancestors were living at the time, it is worth checking this online at the Histpop site: https://tinyurl.com/lzmkh7m. The report includes maps and diagrams, literacy levels and other […]
Abstracts from the 1841-51 Irish censuses
Genealogist Josephine Masterson re-created abstracts of information from the 1841 and 1851 Irish censuses. Her largest source for the abstracts were old age pension records. Old age pensions for those age 70 and above began in 1908. However, civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths in Ireland did not begin until 1864. To prove their […]
Harvard’ sonline collection ‘Women Working 1800-1930’
Harvard’s online collection ‘Women Working, 1800-1930’ http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/diaries.html features digitised diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and journals, providing a broad record of daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here you will find stories and recollections of women astronomers and doctors, preachers and missionaries, reformers and suffragists, school girls and school teachers, a philanthropist and a ‘country […]
Name and Place new database
Name and Place is a dynamic new database and mapping application designed for One-Place Studies, One-Name Studies, Surname Studies and Local History Projects and will be formally launched later in 2017. Cofounders Paul Carter (Technical Lead) and Pam Smith (Content Lead) originally created and developed an application robust enough to cope with the manipulation of […]
The Global Research Library
The Global Research Library has announced a major new genealogical and historical search engine website, known as ‘edu.global’ https://edu.global/landing/ Noel Elliot, Director of Research, said, ‘Although our edu.global website features every academic subject one could study, it has a particularly valuable feature of both genealogy and history, because of my own personal interest over the […]
1821-51 Irish censuses
Only fragments and substitutes of the 1821-51 Irish censuses survive. Search surviving records online at FindMyPast http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/ireland-census-1821-1851
FamilySearch provide new Irish Registry of Deeds resource
With acknowledgement to Sean Murphy https://www.facebook.com/Sean-J-Murphy-777246545723294 Hitherto the only online research facility for the Irish Registry of Deeds has been the worthy indexing project at http://irishdeedsindex.net, which is very much a work in progress. The Mormon FamilySearch has now come to the fore by placing online Registry of Deeds grantor and placename indexes and transcripts […]
Royal Irish Constabulary records online at findmypast
A trio of collections, including service records and pensions, relating to the RIC have been sourced from the National Archives in Kew, London and put online by findmypast
Findmypast launch Catholic Heritage Archive
Findmypast have announced the creation of the Roman Catholic Heritage Archive in early February last which aims to digitise the historic recordsof the Catholic Church in the United States, Britain and Ireland. They have released three million exclusive records including sacramental registers for the Archdioceses of Philadelphis from 1757 bto 1916 as well as for […]
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland published online data on name frequencies available
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland Over 45,000 entries Go to http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764 This huge new dictionary is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK, covering English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames. It includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, and those that had […]