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 Ireland & Northern Ireland  Genealogy & History Resources BOOK - Flight From Famine, The Coming Of The Irish To Canada By Donald MacKay
One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman, "was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland."Flight from Famine is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland's modern prosperity. The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black '47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent. About the Author:
Height: 9 Inches Pages: 176 Format: Paperback Originally published by McClelland and Stewart 1990 Publication Date of this issue: Spring 2009 Publisher: Dundurn Press ISBN13: 9781554884186 More Ireland and Northern Ireland resources from GlobalGenealogy.com: 
BOOK - Surviving 1851 Census Returns of Ireland
By chief compiler George Bushell and the Irish Special Interest Group,Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society Originally published on CD by Ottawa Branch Ontario Genealogical Society, Ottawa 1999 This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Ottawa, 2017 As a result of the explosion and fire in the Public Record Office in Dublin on June 30th, 1922, only a relatively small portion of the 1851 Census Returns for Ireland survived. This publication contains transcripts of many of the surviving returns, with a surname index of the contents. The value of the information in these Census Returns cannot be overestimated. It provides marriage, birth, and death information prior to the introduction of civil registration in the mid 1800s. Genealogically, one can locate a family in the late 1700s by townland and parish. Individuals are placed in family groups, and in addition an insight into their economic standing is provided. ISBN 978-1-77240-068-7 (digital edition) More information
BOOK - A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy By Chris Paton Published by Unlock the Past, Australia, 2016 This edition printed and bound in Canada by GlobalGenealogy.com Inc., Ottawa Chris Paton takes you through the key record sets that will help you get underway with your family history research. He will introduce you to the family history societies and archives that can assist your efforts, and provide a little context to the ancestral landscape within which your ancestors once lived, and into which you will soon be immersed. Along the way he points out some of the major differences in record types to be found in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. In each chapter Chris also provides a steer towards further books which can further develop your skills as you become more experienced with the subject matter, making this an invaluable introduction. ISBN 9781925323573 More Information
BOOK - Ireland, An Alphabetical Index of Townlands and Towns including the County, Barony, Parish, and Poor Law Union in which they are situated, 1851Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationary Office, Dublin, 1861 This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton 2015 This 982 page book provides comprehensive cross indexes for those who are researching genealogical and historical records from Ireland. It is comprised of three helpful indexes that will help you locate the townlands, parishes, baronies, Poor Law Union, and counties where your ancestors' records were recorded, plus OS map references and 1851 Census references: This digital edition is searchable (pdf format) and can be read on any digital device that can read a pdf file. ISBN 978-1-772240-009-0 (digital edition) More information
BOOK - A Decade of Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923 By Chris Paton Published by Unlock the Past, Australia, 2016 This edition printed and bound in Canada by GlobalGenealogy.com Inc. As the issue of Home Rule reared its head for a third time, its supporters and detractors raised militias to defend their positions, whilst women fought for the vote and labourers fought for better terms from their employers. The First World War would soon dramatically change everything, leading some to see England's difficulty as Ireland's opportunity. When an independent republic was proclaimed through force of arms at Easter 1916, the response would see a brutal guerilla war fought between the British forces the Irish republicans, a partitioned island, and a nation divided. A century on, in this book from Unlock the Past, Northern Irish born family historian Chris Paton will help you to discover whether your ancestors were caught up in the events of that period - whether they were Suffragettes, unionised workers, Ulster or Irish Volunteers, fighting with the British Army and Crown forces, against them as rebels and revolutionaries, and in the ensuing civil war on both sides of the Treaty divide. With improved cataloguing by archives, and better access to the records, both online and offline, a new gateway has been opened into one of the island's most tumultuous, tragic, exciting, and utterly desperate periods of the 20th century. In this book he will show you how to step through it. ISBN ISBN 978125323436 More Information
BOOK - Discover Irish Land Records By Chris Paton Published by Unlock the Past, Australia, 2015 The questions that drive us with family history research in Ireland are no different to those asked anywhere else in the world. We need to find the records that tell us who our ancestors were, when and where they lived, and how they related to others. In Ireland, however, many of the records necessary for the task have sadly been lost across time, of were woefully restrictive in how they were created in the first place. Whilst some of the basic vital records do not survive, however, there are plenty of others that will compensate, in this guide book, Northern Ireland born family historian Chris Paton takes a look at the potential to be found within Irish land records. Amongst documents of ownership and tenancy, valuation and tithes records, documents for inheritance, censuses, and many other resources, there are ancestral stories lying dormant and waiting to be found. In this guide, he demonstrates how to find them. ISBN 9781925323245 More Information
BOOK - Irish Family History Resources Online - Second EditionBy Chris Paton Published by Unlock the Past, St Agnes, Australia, 2015 There is a popular belief that Irish family history research is virtually impossible because 'all the records were burned in the civil war'. But as Northern Irish born family historian Chris Paton demonstrates, the glass is most definitely half full rather than half empty when it comes to research in the Emerald Isle. Many records still exist which can help with your ancestral pursuits, and for those unable to make their way to Ireland to carry out research, the internet is finally coming to the rescue, as more and more material is increasingly finding it's way online by the day. This revised and fully updated Unlock the Past guide explores the key repositories and records now available online, and will prove to you that if you have been put off with Irish research in the past, now is absolutely the time to take another look. ISBN 9781921956928 More Information
BOOK - The Huguenots: Their Settlement, Churches, and Industries in England and IrelandBy Samuel Smiles Originally published by Samuel Smiles, New York, 1868 This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton 2006 (CD 2010) This book chronicles the re-settlement of the Huguenots in England and Ireland. The migration was one of the most important movements of skilled workers and professionals out of mainland Europe due to religious persecution. There were two major movements of Huguenot. The first primarily included Flemish and French Protestants during the latter half of the sixteenth century. The second major migration happened during the final decades of the seventeenth century. ISBN: 1-894571-78-9 (Hardcover) More information
ATLAS on CD - Memorial Atlas of Ireland, Showing Provinces, Counties, Baronies, Parishes, Etc [1901] Originally published by L. J. Richards, Philadelphia, 1901 This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton 2011 (on CD) The maps that are included in this atlas are of great value to those researching families or history in Ireland. Being printed in 1901 the atlas illustrates Ireland as it was known at the time, and for many decades prior, including defining the boundaries of provinces, counties, baronies, and parishes and identifying villages, towns, cities and landmarks. The "Combined Geographical Directory and Classified Index" lists all known places and directs the reader to the map that the place appears on, and the co-ordinates of the place on the map. More than just the names of municipalities, the index lists castles, churches, cottages, courts, houses, islands, junctions, lakes, baronies, heads (as in a place), mountains, parishes, points, rocks (as in a place), rivers, schools, and stations. This extensive index is organized alphabetically, is 10 columns wide and 21 pages long. Each page is 13 X 19". All that to say that it is hard to imagine that any place went un-indexed. More information
BOOKs on CD - A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland [1842], Comprising The Several Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Second Edition. [2 Volumes on One CD] By Samuel Lewis & Co. Originally published by Samuel Lewis, London 1842 This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton 2009 (on CD Rom) This work is organized alphabetically by the names of the villages, parishes, towns, cities, etc, as they were known in 1837-1842, making it very easy for researchers to locate information that they seek about a specific place. Descriptions are very detailed, including civil parish locations as as they relate to known boundaries of existing towns, villages, baronies, counties and provinces. Includes information about principle landowners, church parishes and districts. Designed for PC & Mac (.pdf format). More information
BOOK - The Sash Canada Wore - A Historical Geography of The Orange Order in CanadaBy Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smith Originally published by Universtiy of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1980 This edition by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 1999 [CD 2011] Significant migration of Protestant Irish to Canada in the early 19th century brought with it the establishment of the Orange Order in Canada. This work explores the role of the Orange Order in the unfolding settlement geography of Canada. Protestant Irish soldiers and emigrants, largely Ulster-born, introduced the organization into New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario within the first decade of the nineteenth century. At its zenith, he movement had a membership of as many as one in three Canadians. ISBN 978-1-894378-31-4 (Hardcover Edition) More information
BOOK - The Scotch-Irish. Two Volumes in One By Charles A. Hanna. This is the basic sourcebook on the Scotch-Irish in North America, a massive compilation of source records pertaining to the Scots who settled in the north of Ireland and their descendants in North America. The Scotch-Irish left Ulster as a result of neo-mercantilist British economic policy in the region, requirements that they pay 10% of their income to the Anglican Church, ongoing friction with their Catholic Irish neighbors, and greater economic opportunity in the New World. ISBN 1-894378-92-X More information
BOOK - British and Irish Newspapers By Chris Paton Published by Unlock the Past, St Agnes, Australia, 2014 This edition published by Global Genealogy, Milton, 2014 Records of births, marriages and deaths provide a fantastic starting point for identifying our ancestors' names and where they lived, but in terms of trying to understand how those ancestors once lived there is no better resource to plunder than a good newspaper. Over the last two centuries in particular newspapers have recorded the events that have shaped our forebears' lives, and in many cases noted anecdotes, notices and advertisements directly concerning them and their local communities. In this Unlock the Past guide, family historian Chris Paton reviews the availability of newspapers from across the British Isles, describing how to find those that have been digitised and made available online, and explaining how to locate considerably more that have not within the various libraries and archives across Britain and Ireland. ISBN 978-1-77240-005-2 More Information
BOOK - British Home Children: Their StoriesCompiled by the British Isles Family History Society of Ottawa (BIFHSGO) Published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2010 British Home Children were those who were admitted into a Philanthropic Home, Union Workhouse or Industrial School between 1869 and 1948, from families that had suffered a great tragedy or were dysfunctional. A great many of these children were then brought to Canada where they were received into a Distributing Home for settlement as farm labourers and domestics. To commemorate The Year of the British Home Child, BIFHSGO has assembled a collection of stories prepared by the researchers about the lives of some of these these children — their ancestors — that demonstrate the strength of character, sense of purpose and good humour that enabled them to overcome adversity and contribute a positive and lasting legacy to their new country. ISBN 978-1-926797-47-2 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - The Irish Palatines in Ontario: Religion, Ethnicity, and Rural Migration - Second Edition By Carolyn A. Heald. Published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2009 This new book provides a broad history of the Palatines in Ontario, where they came from, where they settled, and what characterized their communities. It is not a catalogue of every Irish Palatine who settled in Ontario. However, the book does contain lists of individuals and many references to specific persons and families. In this new second edition of The Irish Palatines in Ontario the author has corrected known errors from the original 1994 edition and added a completely new chapter on Barbara Heck and the Loyalist Palatines plus other refinements and new material. ISBN: 978-1-897446-37-9 (Hardcover) More information
BOOK - From Ulster to Canada: The Life and Times of Wilson Benson 1821-1911 By Cecil J Houston, William J Smyth Published by Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast Canada is as much a nation of immigrants as the United States. And what is the link between this, the second largest country in the world, and the province of Ulster? No Country contributed more to the establishment of Canada than Ireland. And of the 500,000 souls who arrived there in a constant stream in the generation before the Great Famine, the vast majority originated in Ulster. Canadian identity continues to be characterised by this significant Ulster cultural contribution. In Ontario particularly, the Ulster presence was evident throughout a broad swathe of land stretching almost 1,000 kilometres from the Quebec border to the USA frontier at Detroit. These two great stories, Of Ulster migration to and settlement in Canada, unfold intriguingly in this scholarly and accessible book. Recently-married Wilson Benson emigrated from Co. Armagh in 1841, lived for another 70 years in Ontario and left behind a detailed autobiography. It recalls, firstly, his youth in Ulster and goes on to narrate in engaging detail his varied and indomitable attempts to establish himself in his New World, and absorbing tale that amply informs our understanding of the nineteenth-century migration experience. Wilson Benson's perceptive life history is of value not only to emigrant and family historians but is also a near-unique account of both Ulster society on the cusp of the trauma of the Famine and the emergence of early modern Canada ISBN 978-1-909556-33-1 More Information
BOOK - Scottish Migration To Ulster In The Reign Of James 1 By M. Perceval-Maxwell Published by Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the 'plantation' of Ulster. This book describes in detail the initial establishment of settlement in Ireland's northern province over a comparatively short space of time, that is from 1603 to 1625. Dr Perceval-Maxwell, himself a descendent of seventeenth-century Scots settlers taught for many years In McGill University, Canada. In this seminal analysis of Scottish migration to Ulster he examines the society that produced the Scottish settlers, describes the conditions that they encountered when they arrived in Ireland, and explains what effect the Scottish migration had in both Ireland and Scotland. Short biographies of the principal planters are included and also maps, showing patterns of settlement. This new edition of The Scottish Migration To Ulster In The Reign Of James I includes an introduction written by Dr Perceval-Maxwell which examines the most recent research on this period and shows that most of this scholarship has supplemented rather than challenged his original work ISBN 978-0-901905-44-4 More Information
BOOK - Derry-Londonderry: Gateway to a New World. The Story of Emigration from the Foyle by Sail and Steam By Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 2014 Anyone who has an ancestor known to have sailed from Derry will appreciate having a copy of this book. This book, or booklet, by genealogist and Irish emigration expert Brian Mitchell recounts the history of departures from the port of Derry-Londonderry from the late 17th century to the year 1939, when the last transatlantic steamer sailed from the port. The emigration trade established Derry as one of the chief Irish ports for the transatlantic trade in the 18th century. For example, in 1771 the American colonies took more linen cloth and provisions from Derry than Britain did, and thirty percent of Ulster-Scots, around 75,000 people, emigrated through Derry to North America prior to 1776. By the 1850s two local companies, J. & J. Cooke and William McCorkell & Co., dominated transatlantic trade from Derry, building up sizeable shipping fleets. ISBN 978-0806356-91-4 More information
BOOK - Ulster Transformed: Essays on Plantation and Print Culture c. 1590-1641 By M. Perceval-Maxwell Published by Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast What is published in this volume is the nineteen essays of real substance that Robert produced over a 40 year period from 1964. They have been arranged thematically rather than chronologically and between them they cover seven counties in historic pre-partition Ulster with a cluster of articles on the print trade, focused on Dublin. Ulster Transformed: Essays on Plantation and Print Culture c. 1590-1641 constitutes one of the five volumes in the R.J. Hunter collection. Other titles in this collection are: Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641; The Ulster Plantation in Armagh and Cavan 1608-41; 'Men and Arms': The Ulster Settlers, c. 1630; The Ulster Port Books 1612-15. ISBN 978-1-903688-97-7 More Information
BOOK - Tracing Derry-Londonderry RootsBy Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Company (Clearfield), Baltimore, 2014 Brian Mitchell, the best-selling author of A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland, Finding Your Irish Ancestors, Genealogy at a Glance: Scots-Irish Genealogy Research and Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy -- " has written a book to enable anyone--local people and visitors alike--to research their family history in the city and county of Londonderry (also known as Derry). In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, the city of Derry was a major port of embarkation for Irish emigrants, and County Derry, in northernmost Ulster, was populated by persons of Gaelic Irish, Gaelic Scottish, Lowland Scottish, and English origins--any number of whom would take part in the exodus to the Americas, Great Britain, and Australasia. Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots recounts Derry’s importance in Irish emigration and explains how it impacts genealogical research for the area. 66 pages ISBN 9780806356952 More information
BOOK - Tracing Your Irish Family History on the InternetBy Chris Paton Published by Pen and Sword, Barnsley UK, 2013 Ireland has probably experienced more tragedy when it comes to the preservation of resources for family historians than any other region of the British Isles. Many of the nation’s primary records were lost during the civil war in 1922 and through other equally tragic means. But in this new book Chris Paton shows that not only has a great deal of information survived, it is also increasingly being made available online. As well as exploring the various categories of records that the family historian can turn to, Chris Paton illustrates their use with fascinating case studies. He fully explores the online records available from both the north and the south from the earliest times to the present day. Many overseas collections are also included, and he looks at social networking in an Irish context where many exciting projects are currently underway. ISBN 9781781591840 More information
GUIDE - Genealogy at a Glance: Scots-Irish Genealogy ResearchBy Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 2014 Designed to cover the basic elements of genealogical research in just four pages, the GPC Genealogy at a Glance series (GAAG) gives you as much useful information in the space allotted as you’ll ever need. Compiled by an expert, this Genealogy at a Glance guide is a distillation of the key ingredients in Scots-Irish genealogical research. It can be read at a glance and used with total confidence. In keeping with the general format, this GAAG on Scots-Irish genealogy covers the basic facts about Scots-Irish research: Topics covered include: Scots-Irish background; 17th-century Ulster planters; 18th-century emigrants; Passenger lists; Places of origin; Family names; Source records; Repositories. ISBN 978-0-8063199-6-4 More information
BOOK - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (Fourth Edition)By John Grenham Published by Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 2012 The best book ever written on Irish genealogy, this new edition of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors retains the familiar structure of previous editions but is now more useful than ever. Combining the key features of a textbook and a reference book, it describes the various steps in the research process while at the same time providing an indispensable body of source materials for immediate use. The biggest change from previous editions is in its approach to the Internet. Online research is now an essential part of any Irish family history project, so the 4th edition serves as a directory to online records, discussing their uses and outlining research strategies. The sheer scale of the data available online makes a guide such as this all the more essential, and in the hands of a master it is indispensable. ISBN: 9780806318974 More information
BOOK - Researching Your Irish Ancestors at Home and AbroadBy Dr. David R. Elliott Published by Dundurn, Toronto, 2012 This book will help all those, no matter where they live, who are searching for ancestors in Ireland. Dr. Elliott gives clues to finding your ancestral county, then the parish and townland within the county. He explains how Irish archival centres work and describes how you can flesh out your ancestors’ lives and what you might find in cemeteries. Also covers how to prepare for a research trip to Ireland, and provides links to many useful web sites. David R. Elliott, a retired history professor, has taken eight research trips to Ireland on behalf of his clients and has worked in most archival repositories in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ISBN 978-1-45970-397-1 (softcover) More information
BOOK - Tracing Our Irish Ancestors - Irish City & County Guides By various authors Published by Flyleaf Press, Dublin Flyleaf Press is Ireland’s major specialist publisher of family history and genealogy titles specializing in high-quality ‘how-to’ guides for research in various counties of Ireland. Reviewers have noted that their titles contain ‘…information vital to the researcher, assembled by well-qualified genealogists’ while the NY Genealogical & Biographical Record has said that “Genealogical Libraries will want to acquire all of them”. 6 X 9" perfectbound, varying page counts by volume, illustrated. ISBN various More information about each volume 
BOOK - Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census, A Guide For Family Historians [UK & Ireland]By Emma Jolly Published by Pen and Sword Books, Barnsley UK, 2013 This guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing the modern censuses, it provides information on the less-known censuses dating from before 1841, and it covers the records of all the constituent parts of the British Isles. It is an essential introduction and tool for anyone who is researching the life and times of an ancestor. ISBN 978-1-7815906-1-4 More information
BOOK - The Famine Ships, The Irish Exodus to AmericaBy Edward Laxton Published by Henry Holt,New York, 1998 Often through the words of the passengers themselves, this book documents the frequently tragic story of the mass of people forced to emigrate from Ireland during the potato famine of 1846-1851. The famine was the defining event in modern Irish history; more than a million people died of starvation and disease and another million left their homeland, traveling from all parts of Ireland to board ships bound for the United States and Canada. Sailing under conditions that were rarely monitored, many were denied the food and water promised with the price of their ticket; many succumbed to disease; and those who survived faced a bittersweet aftermath as unwelcome immigrants in America. The Famine Sbips tells a story of courage and determination that is an incredible chapter in North American immigrant history and a crucial moment in the Irish-American experience. ISBN 978-0-8050-5844-4 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - The Workhouse Encyclopedia [England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales]By Peter Higginbotham Published by The History Press, Gloucestershire, UK (2012) Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain’s foremost experts on the subject, it covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Workhouses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse addresses, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of workhouse life. ISBN 9780752470122 (Hardcover) More information
BOOKS - Irish Genealogy Series, Cemetery, Parish & Poor Law Union RecordsBy Dr. David R. Elliott, KinFolk Finders Published by Kinfolk Finders, Parkhill, 2006-present Dr. David R. Elliott travels to Ireland each summer to transcribe Irish records and to persue family history research for his many clients. To date, the bulk of his transcription work is in County Fermanagh though his books contain many references to persons in County Cavan and County Tyrone. All of the books in Elliott's Irish Genealogy Series are published in 8.5 X 11" format, Cerlox bound with heavily laminated front and back covers. The high quality paper in these books ensure excellent print quality and exceptional colour photos. Click here for a complete list and description of the books in Elliott's Irish Genealogy Series, Cemetery, Parish & Poor Law Union Records 
BOOK - Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors, The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800 [northern Ireland] By William Roulston Published by Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2010 (this edition) One of the greatest frustrations for generations of genealogical researchers has been that reliable guidance on sources for perhaps the most critical period in the establishment of their family’s links with Ulster, the period up to 1800, has proved to be so elusive. Not any more. This book can claim to be the first comprehensive guide for family historians searching for ancestors in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ulster. Printed 2010. ISBN 978-1-903688-53-3 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - The Ulster Sourcebook, For Family ResearchersBy Sherrell Branton Leetooze Published by Lynn Michael-John Associates, Bowmanville, 2008 This book provides essential information for those who are interested in genealogical or historical research in Ulster. It will help you understand political and civil boundaries within Ulster so that you can easily locate the records that you need. Includes important lists of resources by County (Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry/ Londonderry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone), parish and townland. The author identified the parishes of each county and listed the townlands and towns in each one - all places are in alphabetical order. She lists the libraries that serve that area - libraries hold local histories, family histories and in some cases local documents. The museums and archives that serve that county where documents are archived, and sometimes photo collections of people and places areincluded. In the back of the book is "Ulster on the Net", a section of web site addresses for all counties in Ulster - some paid sites, some free sites, some indexes of what is available. Also in this section is included a short dictionary - a selection of descriptive terms used in parish and townland names . ISBN n/a More information
RESEARCH AID - Irish Genealogy ResearchBy: Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 2010 Building on years of experience, Irish genealogy expert Brian Mitchell tells you succinctly about the sources used in Irish research, where to find them, and how to use them. In just four pages (which are specially laminated for heavy use) it provides an overview of the basic facts you need to know in order to begin and to proceed successfully with your research. It boils the subject down to its essence and allows you to grasp the basics of research at a glance! Literally at a glance. ISBN 9780806318707 More information
Book - Your Irish Ancestors, A Guide For Family HistoriansBy Ian Maxwell Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell's highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth century census returns and school registers will be familiar to researchers, but others have been traditionally overlooked by all but the most experienced genealogists. Each chapter takes the form of a detailed social history showing how the lives of our ancestors changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the records that have survived, and it is in this broad historical approach that Ian Maxwell's work stands out from other guides to Irish genealogy. ISBN: 184415789-X More information
BOOK - Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy. Third Edition By: Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore The Third Edition of Brian Mitchell's Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy is, page for page, perhaps the best book on genealogical research in Ireland ever written. By skillfully blending case studies, maps, charts, and his own mastery of the subject, Mitchell has managed to convey the basics of Irish genealogical research in scarcely eighty pages. ISBN: 9780806353852. More information
BOOK - Finding Your Irish Ancestors, Unique Aspects of Irish Genealogy
By: Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore Making use of the case study technique, this new book expounds on topics that are not found in his earlier book (Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy)and expands on others that are. Drawing on his firsthand experience as a genealogist and as a geographer, Brian Mitchell delivers a new volume that is full of firsthand explanations and expertly drawn maps of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ISBN 978-0-8063-5100-1. More information
BOOK - A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland - Second EditionBy Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore An invaluable aid for tracing ancestors in Ireland. Since its original publication in 1986, A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland has established itself as a key resource in Irish genealogical research. Now, with the addition of maps detailing the location of Roman Catholic parishes in all thirty-two counties of Ireland and Presbyterian congregations in the nine counties of Northern Ireland, this new 2nd Edition moves the book to the forefront of Irish genealogical research. Also, for the first time ever, this one volume contains a complete geographical picture of the three major religious denominations in Ireland during the middle years of the 19th century. More information
BOOK - Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, 1830-1839 40 Volumes - buy individually or multiple volumes Written in the 1830's to accompany the Ordnance Survey Maps, this major series of memoirs was left unpublished except for one parish. The memoirs record landscape and situation, buildings, antiquities, land holdings and population and employment and livelihood, on a parish by parish basis for Northern Ireland. Click Here for a Complete Listing of This 40 Volume Series Can be purchased individually. 
BOOK - The Great Hunger - Ireland 1845-1849 -- By: Cecil Woodham Smith. The Irish potato famine of the 1840's, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The author discusses how the famine may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British 'obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance' - and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire 'solutions' - largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ISBN 978-0-14-014515-1 (Softcover) More information
BOOK - Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 (Northern Ireland to eastern USA & Canada)By R. J. Dickson; new introduction by Graeme Kirkham First published in 1966, this book remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million people from Ulster to the New World. It combines detailed investigation of the economic, social and political background to the exodus with information on the emigrant trade and an analysis of the motivations and origins of the emigrants themselves. This new edition includes a specially written Introduction by Graeme Kirkham, whose researches on both sides of the Atlantic are reflected in an essay which considers recent advances in the understanding of this important mass population movement from Ireland to America. ISBN: 978-0-901905-17-8 More information
BOOK - Flight From Famine, The Coming Of The Irish To CanadaBy Donald MacKay One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman, "was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland." Flight from Famine is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland's modern prosperity. The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black '47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent. ISBN13: 9781554884186 More information
BOOK - Essays in Scotch-Irish HistoryEdited by E.R.R. Green These five essays were delivered as lectures at a conference on the Scotch-Irish held in Belfast in 1965. This edition contains a new introduction by Steve Ickringill of the University of Ulster re-viewing recent research. The first essay is an examination of President Woodrow Wilson's Scots and Scotch-Irish inheritance of family and religious traditions. The next paper considers the educational contribution of the Scotch-Irish to colonial America, beginning with elementary church schools and academies for preparing young men for the ministry, and proceeding to the most important institution, Princeton, decisively Presbyterian and Scots in character. A neglected period in the study of Irish emigration is covered in an essay on Ulster Emigration to America, 1783-1815; this shows that emigration continued on a large scale after 1783 in spite of British Government restrictions, and that these emigrants like their predecessors, immediately assumed loyalty to their adopted country, notably in the war of 1812. The fourth paper argues that perhaps the most important aspect of the influence of the Scotch-Irish in the making of the United States. The final essay, on Ulster's emigrant's letters, points to the value of these documents as sources of information on the emigrant experience, both social and economic. ISBN 0 901905 53 4 More information
BOOK - A Guide to Irish Parish Registers By Brian Mitchell Published by Genealogical Publishing Compnay, Baltimore This work tells you which Irish parish registers exist (all denominations), their starting dates, and where and how they can be located, and it links them to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, the great survey of property holders taken between 1848 and 1864. The civil parish, rather than the church parish, was the basic unit for the administration of records in Ireland. Most important Irish records--parish records of birth, marriage, and death, for instance, and Griffith's Valuation--are either organized along civil parish lines or, as in the case of Catholic parish records, which are organized by diocese, can be tied into civil parish records for further research. In this book you'll find the location of churches of all denominations, including Roman Catholic, as well as the earliest date of their registers. In tabular form, in alphabetical order in each of the thirty-two counties, is the name of the civil parish; the name of the Church of Ireland parish (if different), and the earliest baptism entry in the registers; the Roman Catholic parish and the earliest baptism or marriage entry in the registers; the Presbyterian congregation and its earliest baptism entries; and, if registers of dissenting churches are extant (Quaker, Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, etc.), it gives the beginning of their registers. It also provides map references to Mr. Mitchell's New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland and to the maps accompanying the householders' index to Griffith's Valuation. This makes parish records and Griffith's Valuation compatible, for they can be identified by the same administrative division--the civil parish. More information
BOOK - Sir Richard Musgrave's Memoirs Of The Irish Rebellion Of 1798By Sir Richard Musgrave The most important contemporary published source on the insurrection led by the United Irishman.Vivid eyewitness accounts, lists of massacre victims and rebel and loyalist participants. over 900 pages with a wealth of information which can be used to reconstruct families and villages of that era. If your ancestor or ancestral village is mentioned in Musgrave, you will be sure to gain a vivid vignette for your family history.This book features a text and numerous appendices packed with vivid eyewitness accounts, sworn affidavits, governement proclamations and battle plans and maps. The value of this modern edition is enhanced by a new index of 10,6000 references which makes the text accessible in a way not previously possible. Essential for genealogists and historians who are interested in the history and families of Ireland. More information
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