Cavan Genealogy is hosting a conference called “Crossing Borders, [.PDF brochure],” which will explore “some features of the borderland counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Meath.”
Date: 12-15 September 2013.
Place: Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, County Cavan, Ireland.
Now online at PRONI (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland), a searchable placename index to the Valuation Revision Books, covering the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone between the years 1864 to 1933.
The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) is hosting its 19th Annual Family History Conference in Ottawa, September 20-22, 2013. The focus will be on Ireland.
So the reason I’m blue in the face is not apnoea or an impending heart attack, it’s from telling people over and over and over that it makes no difference whether your Quin family have been insanely fussy about spelling their surname with one N for the past three centuries. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the person writing the name down was not a Quin, and couldn’t give a hoot.
– John Grenham, The Os and the Macs
When I get a chance (which won’t be until after Christmas), I’m going to post an entry about searching the Tithe Applotment Books for various ancestors. I think I have found my Lahey ancestors, for example, who emigrated to Upper…
Fiona Fitzsimons on the importance of Griffith’s Valuation as a “gateway” resource.
You already know, of course, that you can’t really trace your ancestry back to Niall of the Nine Hostages, or to anyone grand and legendary like that. And you probably also suspect, if your family tree looks anything like mine,…
In his Irish Roots column of 25 October, John Grenham writes of the NLI’s plans to digitize its collection of RC parish records: The National Library has recently put out a request for tender for the digitisation of all of…
Via John Reid’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, the National Archives of Ireland now reports that the 1901 census (with all data for all counties) will be available online from 3 June 2010. The digitization of the 1901 and 1911 Irish census returns,…
The online databases at the Irish Family History Foundation include, according to John Grenham’s best guess, “75% of per-1900 Roman Catholic registers, 50% of surviving Church of Ireland records and 30% of Presbyterian records.” So that’s a lot of records, and…
