Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results.
01 January 2015Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. Thomas Edison The inventor’s dictum about negative results can usefully be applied to us family historians. Working on the Genealogical Advisory Team at the National Library, I am often struck by the many callers...
Researching Families.
01 December 2014Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Stephen Peirce has written a research tip on…. Researching Families. When researching families we often use evidence from civil certificates to guide our searches. In particular...
Family History Research and what trends to be aware of
15 November 2014Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Carmel Gilbride has written a research tip on. Family History Research and what trends to be aware of Each family is unique in its decisions...
Tenants on Crown estates in Ireland
01 November 2014Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Fiona Fitzsimons has written a research tip on. Tenants on Crown estates in Ireland Between 1848 and 1851 over...
British Armed Forces Army Records.
31 October 2014Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Fiona Fitzsimons has written a research tip on British Armed Forces Army Records. British Armed Forces Army records The most complete online collection of historic British Armed...
Go ToSources
10 October 2014Family history concerns itself with mapping people to places. We need to be familiar with the places where events in our ancestors lives may have taken place. One of our ‘go to’ sources for this information is the work of Brian Mitchell, including his Guide to the Parishes of Ireland. Guide to...
What a fee can tell you about a record
01 October 2014We often come across people researching their ancestors who are disappointed with the lack of details in mid-19th century marriage registers. In Roman Catholic marriage registers the name of the bride and groom, their witnesses and sometimes a townland were the only details recorded. But there is one other record...
The Compiled Military Service Records
01 September 2014As co-ordinator of the Twentyx20 genealogy talks in the NLI this summer, I had the enjoyable task of attending all the lunch-time talks, and meeting each of the speakers. One of the talks that really stood out for me, was by Damian Shiels who spoke on the Irish in the...
