Kaylee Schmittou: Irish genealogy is not hard to research.....it is the same as any other FH research....BUT if you don't know the system, if you don't know what records there are and you think you can use the 'put a name into a website click and get everything' you will find it hard..........real research is not like that.Over the last few years there has been lots of funding that has enabled FH societies in Ireland and NI to improve online access to records, lots of private individuals who have also transcribed records and the Irish have realised their mistakes of the past ( in the past they burned the census)........so first my advice is to learn about the record system the simplest and not so detailed way is to go onto Genuki so you get an idea of where records are, what information they hold and target search specific records and you will then find you can find lots and many you can find free, some you will still have to pay credits for they can be found..........man! y get hung up on what is not available instead of finding out what is available so they do hit brickwalls and many people who claim to research have only ever used such websites as ancestry and never check the real record which is not research.http://familytimeline.webs.com this website is UK/Irish based, on the links page you will find Genuki it is under the UK section...you will also find many ROI and Northern Irish links and the National Archive for Ireland and PRONI for NI both have lots of free and scanned records for free...the documents page has some transcribed records and a help sheet about how to target search online for your ancestors.You need to know the politics as well as the history, as this will help you, as Dublin ( ROI) held all Ireland's records until 1922 and many are still held there...but Dublin was the UKs second capital city so some records will be at Kew ( UK National Archives) and that is very likely where you will find 1798 information/records and! /or could be at PRONI which is now in a new building in the Ti! tanic Quarter in Belfast....Show more
Willetta Munhall: Eleanor princess of castile & King Edward are my twenty 2d GreatGrandparents; --------------------------------------... Eleanor Princess of Castile Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Princess of britain Countess of Hereford Margaret de Bohun 2d Countess of Devon Sir Edward of Godlington Courteney Hugh Courteney Hugh Courteney(II) Elizabeth Courteney Thomas Trethurffe Elizabeth Tethurffe John Vivian Haniball Vivian Roger Vivian John Vivian Elizabeth Vivian Matthew Bennett Elizibeth Bennett William Williams Mary Williams Thomas Rowling Ivy Rowling Patricia Reynish David Williams Michael Williams-(me)...Show more
Dalia Causby: These are the only records online - the 1911 and 1901 census' : http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/Unfortunetly all records before this were destroyed by the British when leaving and during the Civil War.Besides that you need to come to Ireland and research in the Genealogy search office in the Ir! ish Life Building near O'Connell street where records of the marriage, death and birth records are held.You can also go to the County Library's to look up info relating to the Poor Law District and owners and tenants of the land.Due to the Penal Laws in forced by the British, the Catholic Church was banned and therefore it took no records. Up until 1871 all records taken by the Church of Ireland (Anglican) were the state records. Therefore the majority of people had no records taken for them. State records only begin after this for the whole population.The Catholic Church's in nearly all cases did not begin taking records until after 1850/60. And that is the difficulty. You need to go to the Records office, the National Library of Ireland, the County Library's and the centralized record centre in each diocese for the Church's....Show more
Elinore Schlinker: this is a branch of genealogy that is hard as the records only started as the mid 1850s and as a lot of irish we! re and are catholic the records for the churches only started then so y! ou cant go back any further than that ! i know its frustrating im trying to research my paternal 3 times great grandfather and im not having much luck.
Malcom Fenoff: The Censuses of 1821, 1831, 1841, 1851 were lost when the archives at the Four Courts were burned in 1922. The 1861 and 1871 census records were destroyed by the government who misunderstood that they should have been kept. The census returns of 1881 and 1891 were pulped by government order during the First World War, possibly due to a shortage of paper. The 1901 and 1911 censuses exist and are available for research. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~...Poor Roman Catholic families did not create many paper records apart from parish records and perhaps a land lease. If you know the town, parish, or even county, that they came from, you may be able to make contact with others researching the same families, or the family itself by posting on CuriousFox. They do include towns and villages ! in Ireland although there is no Ireland front page. http://www.curiousfox.com/...Show more
Mario Stricklan: I'm not talking about putting in a name and it's not just me. My great-uncle traveled to Ireland and could find nothing beyond the free immigrant's parents, the rest there was nothing at all.
Erica Bottaro: I have been told a lot is in the techniques you use. I still haven't found an Irish immigrant so I haven't tried yet. (Still trying to track them back to Ireland) There is a highly recommended Webinair on Legacy Family Tree on this very topic in October. The title is "Ah hold your whisht and tell me the true story": Uncovering your Irish Family History and the presenter is Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman. http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/webinars.asp...Show more
Percy Seiger: yeah,alot of the senses records were destroyed in a fire during the war of independence.
Carli Watterson: Have you looked at all the Irish genealogy sites? Do you have a subs! cription to ancestry.com? You could post names here and someone may be! able to help. If you know one of your ancestors was a 1798 rebel, how did you get back to him if you didn't research your tree? http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/
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