ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk – the official government / National Records of Scotland genealogy index/images portal – has relaunched
ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk – the official government / National Records of Scotland genealogy index/images portal – has relaunched. A major change is that it is now free to search indexes, and you only pay to download images. There's a search form on the home page that lets you search across all records in one go. Searching […]
New search facilities on UK GRO indexes
The UK GRO indexes can now be searched at https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp for births and deaths up to 1957. The search facility has the bonus that the result gives the mother's maiden name for births pre-1911, and the age at death pre-1865, which were not previously given. Searches are restricted to 5 year […]
County Wicklow origins in Shillelagh and Ballinacor baronies
The Third Quarter issue of the Irish Roots magazine has an article on the Coollattin Papers from the Earls Fitzwilliam estate of that name. They consist of Famine Emigration Books, Lists of Land Occupiers and the 1842 Estate Maps. I noticed a reference to John Donoghoe from the townland of Ballyrahan. In 1827 he was […]