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Genealogy Links

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Irish Search Engines

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Clan/Family/Surname Web Sites

Informative

Having spent some time now going through the various genealogy web sites or those which have genealogical content relating to the 32 counties of Ireland, I have this to say.

There are a number of web sites in Ireland, which give some information on each of the thirty two counties. e.g. Local Ireland, Total Ireland, the Irish Times web site. Each of these will give a certain amount of information on the county, other links for other web sites relating to the county and each has a genealogy section. For the most part, I have found that the links on any of these sites all lead back to the same place, the county Family Heritage Centre, which may or may not be given a different title or name on each site.

Then, there are the various genealogical projects, they confuse me to say the least. I believe that for the most part they are all the same as well. By that, I mean that there is very little difference in what they tell you is available for the various counties in Ireland. However, some county pages do contain transcribed material, parish records and graveyard transcriptions as well as data from other souyrces.

I get the impression from looking at everything, that everyone knows that there is this much information available for the Irish counties. Trying to find something different listed on any one of the sites is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. That is when you look to these bigger sites, produced by various organisations.

However, if you look to those web sites whose URL's you will see passing through the mail-lists - then they are where you will find your treasures, the little nuggets. County Home Pages created by individuals who have an interest in a county, people who transcribe records and put that information on line. There may be mistakes on some of those pages, but you will not find any similar information being given to you by any of the large organisations.

You will find a list of sites relating specifically to each county on the county contents pages. On this page, are some sites which stand out amongst those relating to Irish research and some links which are not listed on other 'Links' pages, but which are well worth a visit if you are looking for information from Ireland.

Clan/Family/Surname Web Sites

Doras Directory of Surname Sites

Searcher - the Irish Genealogy and Search Engine Directory

Guild of One Name Studies

University College Cork, Atlas of Irish Names

Clans of Ireland

One Hundred Most Common Irish Surnames

Matheson Report on distribution of Irish Surnames in 1890

Bustard Genealogy on line - mainly northern Ireland counties, but with parish records

Butler Society

William Brennan Family History - Laois

Callahan, Callaghan, O'Callaghan - not found 31st May 2003

Casey Family Association- not found 31st May 2003

Cassidy Clan

Claffee Home Page - Moate Co. Westmeath

Culbertson Families in Ireland

Doherty (O'Dochartaigh) Clan

Donnellan Jim Donnelans History and Genealogy of the Donnelan family

Dowling/Dooling/Doolan/Doolin Brian Dowlings web site

Ferguson Ferguson's of Ireland - Colin Ferguson's web site

Geoghegan/Gaygan Not available 31st May 2003

Grant David Grants web site

Kanaley - not found 31st May 2003

Kehoe Pam Kehoe's web site - Wexford, Carlow and more

Kelley/Kelly - error report 31st May 2003

Kelly Clan - Armagh

Clann Lachlainn/McLoughlin - Donegal and other places - John D. McLaughlin's web site

Clann MacEgan/Keegan

Garvey/McGarvey/Garvan

Logan, Lagan - not found 31st May 2003

Lucey or Lucy - not found 31st May 2003

Lowary, Lowery, Lowrey, Lowry, Loughry names

Mann/Portrush and Chestnut/Ballymoney (Antrim and Down) Norm & Ruth Parkes web site - lots of records

Manning & Saul - Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.

Clan Magner

McFarland & Lamont Families - Ballymoney Antrim, Tom McFarland's web site

McNamara & McCarthy

MacQuillan/McQuillan

Moffatt

Murray, O'Brien and other names from Cork - not found 31st May 2003

The Roulstone Family Website maintained by Simon Roulstone

Ryan Clan Association - also subscribe to the CoTipperary-L@rootsweb.com managed by J. Terry Ryan for information on County Tipperary. To subscribe to this mail list, click on the link and leave the subject line empty on the email which opens on your screen. Type in 'subscribe' and send. Within a few minutes you will receive a message welcoming you to the list and explaining how to post a message to the list and more.

Teskey Family Genealogy with links to the Irish Palotine Organisation and their records

Treanor/Traynor Pat Traynor's web site

Trehy find Paddy Trehy's new link to Trehy forum

Troy Michéal Troy's web site

Watterson

Wilson's of Tyrone

Search engines

Google

IXquick

Image Search Engines

Google Image Search Key in a phrase and instead of URL's you will get back thumbnail images. Good to find photos of places in Ireland. Watch out though because this search engine is not entirely family friendly, the images may have an adult content! Still, I found surprising photos of places I would never have expected to find on the web - and I did not come across any 'adult content' images in the searching I did.

Ditto Another image search engine, more family friendly but with a smaller archive of images.

Alta Vista Image Search Engine Here, make sure that the family filter is on. You can find the filter in the upper right corner of Alta Vista's yellow image saerch box.

Irish Search Engines

If you want to find web sites which are really Irish and on Irish servers then use the following search engine:

Irish Databases Here, you will find everything you could possibly need in relation to Irish Web Sites or Irish databases and I could take forever listing them all out for you. Don't miss this link and be sure to bookmark it for future reference.

Search Ireland not found May 31st 2003

Irish On-line Research Directory

Find It Ireland a directory of Irish web sites

Set Dancing News - If you like Irish Music, set-dancing or are just coming to Ireland on a holiday, or even only thinking about it, then Bill Lynch's web site is a must to check out. Wher-ever we have a set dancing 'session' - for a weekend or a week, we have music to go with it - the musicians just go to these areas - and while the dancers dance in halls or pubs, music is found everywhere. Our Musicians are for the most part not paid to play, they just follow the music wherever it is, for the love of it and the 'craic' (=fun). In time, I want to put photos on this web site, showing how a 'session' will grow - one to three musicians to begin with and then more and more as an evening goes along (from children to old). Bill lists all - Irish and International, the workshops and the weekends.

What's What in Irish Genealogy - Paul Gorry's web site. Paul's web site is very well categorised, here you will find any links worth checking out in relation to Irish genealogy.

Irish Ancestral Pages - Philip O'Rourke - Limerick, Cork and Wexford

Irish Churches - Joanne Mitchells web site. Photographs of Irish Churches, to date she has 165 photos of R.C. churches and 69 of Church of Ireland - so if you have any of the church where your ancestor is from I'm sure Joanne would put it on her web site for you so that others who may be interested in the area can see it - if you wouldn't mind.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild has passenger lists and a search engine to help you

Passenger Lists from Ireland, 1803 page not found May 31st 2003

Ship Search - Surname search (site) of passenger lists on the internet

Immigrant Ship Lists - FirstMom's Genealogy Resources

IreAtlas Townland database - based on the 1851 Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland. Created by SeanRuad and hosted by TheCore.com on the Leitrim-Roscommon Genealogy Site.

Ireland On Line Interactive Maps - this link is only for those who use MSIE as their browser. Enter the place you are interested in (street, name, place even) and then when the map comes up it is possible to zoom in

Maps and guides from Maps Worldwide - This web site carries travel maps and Ordnance Survey Maps for Ireland.

For maps of Northern Ireland fill in the postal code if you know it, otherwise just click go and click on the UK link. For southern Ireland and Australia plus others click on 'go' and then 'International' at the top of the page that opens.
Coverage: Top 25 cities and towns, including: Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Dundalk, Bray, Drogheda, Swords, Tralee, Kilkenny, Sligo, Wexford, Athlone, Carlow, Malahide, Leixlip, Navan, mullinger, Cellbridge, Killarney, Portlaoise, Portmarnock, Arklow, Kildare.

Index to Missing People found in Victoria Police Correspondence Records (Australia) link not working 12th Jan 2002

Illinois Statewide Index 1915-1950

Representative Church Body Library Church of Ireland, Genealogy and Family History page

Presbyterian Church

National Library of Ireland online Catholic Parish Register Catalogue - showing what is available to view on film in Dublin NOTE using this link downloads a text file onto your computer, you then have to read it using Acrobat!

General Registrar's Office Belfast - instructions on ordering Birth, marriage and death certificates and an on line application form - ONLY for the counties of Northern Ireland.

Irish Public Libraries, special collections information - some libraries have information on line as to which estate records they have, lists of journals and other such information. Some such as Clare Co. Library have put the Griffiths Valuation on line, others provide a genealogical information service and then other web pages simply give no more than their address and opening hours. This link may result in a wealth of information for you or nothing at all, whichever - it's worth checking out.

Valuation Office - Dublin. On this site you can see and download some copies of the maps as used for the Griffiths Valuation of Ireland

1901 Census project for Roscommon, Leitrim, Mayo (with some Sligo and Westmeath): - Roger McDonnells web site. The site has approximately 185,000 individuals who lived in Roscommon, Mayo, Leitrim, Sligo, and Westmeath in 1901. Roscommon is complete except for 22 missing townlands. Leitrim is 52% complete and Mayo is 21% complete. Almost all the Mayo records are for East Mayo. There are a few Sligo records and the town of Athlone in Westmeath is also available.

Antrim - Norman Parkes

County Carlow Information - Susie Warren's web site

Cavan and Kildare - Colin Ferguson

Cavan - Adrian Donley

Clare, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Mayo and Roscommon - Cathy Joynt Labath

County Cork - Margaret Turner

Donegal Genealogy Resources - Lindel

Donegaleire Website - Carol Queen

Down - Raymond Kelly

Down-Ireland Genealogy Web site (Link not working Jan 13th 2002)

Dublin - Howth - Christine Uphill's web site with gravestone transcriptions and extracts from Trade Directories. Just click on the link to Howth.

Chapters of Dublin History has to be one of the best web sites dealing with Dublin and her past.