Census Records: Bless Them! Curse Them! Fight the Dark Side.
06 February 2017A census record is arguably the most single useful source in genealogy. One gets the name, age (thereby inferring rough date of birth), marital status, profession, and where born for not just one family member: One gets this, and more, for the whole family. And, if there are elderly...
From The Legion of The Lost Ones
02 February 2017Commissioned and Presented by Meath County Council Arts Office supported by the Irish Arts Center New York. Come join us at the Heritage Centre Kells on February 8th and 9th 2017 to support the collaboration of two celebrated Meath artists, Michael Brunnock and Deirdre Kinahan and view the very beginnings...
Other Catholic Congregational records
26 January 2017In Ireland the Roman Catholic Church is a private institution. The historical church records of the Catholic church in Ireland document the sacraments – mainly baptism and marriage. Although the Church observes the anointing of the sick or dying as a sacrament, most Catholic parishes in nineteenth-century Ireland never kept...
Expert Workshops at the National Library of Ireland 2016, Brian Donovan, Police & Army records for Irish Genealogy 1836 to 1922.
26 January 2017Synopsis One of the great untapped resources for Irish genealogy are the records of the police, courts, prisons and army. There was a much bigger security apparatus in Ireland and it left copious records which are becoming increasingly easy to use. They document petty criminals and drunks through to...
Behind the scenes stories at the Irish Family History Centre.
26 January 2017Sometimes there are other records…and even more. When Judy Harper from Australia visited the Irish Family History Centre, she had quite a bit of family research already completed. She had traced her family back through a number of generations in South Africa to Dublin, to the Pittar family in...
News Digest: January 2017
26 January 2017http://www.prestoncitizen.com/news/local/genealogy-gems-what-s-in-your-attic/article_e2d0406a-e263-11e6-800c-87afbd67883c.htmlThe Kalem Films With Live Orchestration. Sunday, 19 March at 20.00 https://stpatrickscathedral.digitickets.co.uk/event/2057801?catID=6441&_ga=1.159884349.1826997384.1479723036&mc_cid=45d934dd67&mc_eid=b958478a72 It’s a record! Six Galway siblings all reach 100 https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/it-s-a-record-six-galway-siblings-all-reach-100 Tracing genealogical links through DNA https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/88785934/tracing-genealogical-links-through-dna Genealogy Gems: What’s in your attic? http://www.prestoncitizen.com/news/local/genealogy-gems-what-s-in-your-attic/article_e2d0406a-e263-11e6-800c-87afbd67883c.html
Google Maps Helps Solve a 19th-Century Placenames Mystery
25 January 2017I was in a dilemma. I literally did not know where I was. I had found the key birth certificate for a family member I had been researching, but the townland in North Tipperary that was listed as their place of residence did not seem to exist. I...
Putting order on your files
12 January 2017An essential feature of genealogy is putting order on our findings. The after Christmas lull has always been a great time to put order on our ’stuff’ be it photos ( in a pre-digital age!) or assembling and archiving the documents found on our family in the year gone out....
News Digest: Jan 12 2017
12 January 2017When they’re not scouring over ancient deeds in dusty libraries, The Irish Family History Centre genies like to read the newspapers. We’ve rounded up some of the most interesting articles they found in the last couple of weeks FindmyPast completes Irish petty sessions court registers http://britishgenes.blogspot.ie/2017/01/findmypast-completes-irish-petty.html An Irish man’s extraordinary search...
Regina Sexton – Elite Women and Their Recipe Books
11 January 2017From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, elite women in Irish county estates began to compile and maintain collections of recipes. Their collections contain culinary and medicinal recipes altogether with household and craft tips, gardening advice and occasional instructions for feeding and fattening small farm animals and domestic fowl. Culinary and...
Behind the scenes at The Irish Family History Centre.
11 January 2017THREE FAMILY BRANCHES UNITED THROUGH DNA When the paper trail runs out with possible, but unproven, relatives, it’s time to go DNA. This situation happened to me, and DNA provided the breakthrough I was looking for. My mother was a Curley from South County Galway, an area that suffered from...
Eve Parnell’s new exhibition
22 December 2016In January 2017 Irish artist Eve Parnell’s new exhibition will be Opened in the Humboldt University in Berlin, by H.E. The Irish Ambassador to Germany, Michael Collins ‘History is written by the Victors’ but in between the pages we can find facts and stories that should be re-discovered; research is like...
