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The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, is today (Wednesday) launching a new online genealogy toolkit for schools, aimed at encouraging students to trace their roots and explore their family tree.
The ‘2016 Family History’ website has been created by the National Archives as a legacy project under the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. Minister Humphreys met with students in Muckross College in Donnybrook, who have been trialling the website, to launch this new online resource.
2016 Family History is a new, free Irish genealogy education website, brought to you by the National Archives and IrishGenealogy.ie. The site is aimed primarily at secondary school students, but can be used by anyone with Irish ancestors to learn how to use the multiplicity of online sources now available for family history.
The site is still being tested, and will be formally launched in January 2017. Enter here.
Today, Heather Humphreys T.D. Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and Leo Varadkar T.D. Minister for Social Protection officially launched the historic records of Births over 100 years ago, Marriages over 75 years ago and Deaths over 50 years ago of the General Register Office (GRO).
Further details on what records are now available can be found here.
• The Accredited Genealogists Ireland are at http://accreditedgenealogists.ie/.
• The National Archives and National Library also supply lists of researchers who will carry out commissioned research (www.nli.ie / www.nationalarchives.ie).
A number of sites give advice on how to start research and what resources you will need:
• www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy1
• www.irishtimes.com/ancestor
• homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/epubs/
WHAT ONLINE RECORDS HELP TO IDENTIFY IRISH PLACE NAMES?
Database transcripts of the 1851 Townlands Index are available at:
• www.irishtimes.com/ancestor
• www.thecore.com/seanruad
• www.irish-place-names.com
Other useful sites include:
• www.logainm.ie, primarily concerned with the original Irish versions of placenames, but also including many historical maps
• maps.osi.ie, the website of Ordnance Survey Ireland, which includes fully searchable free copies of the six-inch and 25-inch to the mile 19th century surveys of Ireland.
WHAT OVERSEAS RECORDS RELATING TO THE IRISH ARE ONLINE?
Records of the Irish overseas, especially records of first-generation migrants, can sometimes record more details than the surviving records back in Ireland. The most important of these are:
1. Australian death records. These record the names and addresses of both parents of the deceased. For many Irish immigrants, this may be the only place such information is recorded. Different states began registration in different years. A good overview is at www.coraweb.com.au.
2. Scottish death records. These start in 1855 and record the full names and addresses of spouses and both parents. Many, many Irish emigrants are recorded. Marriages and births are also recorded from 1855. See www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
3. U.S. marriage records. These start in a different year in each state and the information collected varies, but can be very useful. Massachusetts marriage records (www.familysearch.org), for example, record the names of the mother and father of both parties.
4. England and Wales General Register Office records start in 1837. None of the registers are online, but almost all the indexes are freely searchable at www.freebmd.org.uk.
WHAT MILITARY AND POLICE RECORDS ARE ONLINE?
1. The Irish Army. A 1922 'census' of the fledgling Free State army is searchable on the Irish Military Archives site, www.militaryarchives.ie.
2. The British Army: The original records are all in the British National Archives in London (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk). Their Medal Card records are very useful for First World Ward servicemen. Surviving service records of the First World War are transcribed at www.ancestry.co.uk. Pre-1914 service and pension records are at www.findmypast.co.uk.
3. There is a voluntary project to list of Ireland's World War 1 veterans 1914-1918 at www.worldwar1veterans.com and you can also search Irelands Memorial Records for World War 1 at http://imr.inflandersfields.be/search.html
4. The Royal Irish Constabulary: a part-index to the LDS microfilm copy of the original RIC register is at www.ancestry.co.uk.
I am very pleased to welcome you to irishgenealogy.ie the website dedicated to helping you search for family history records for past generations. The website is now home to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office. These records join the Indexes to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths that were already available on the website.