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| *[[Ireland Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]]
| | ==Country Information== |
| *[[Ireland Biography|Biography]]
| | Today the island of '''Ireland ''' is divided into two countries: (1) the '''Republic of Ireland''', also known as '''Éire''' or '''Poblacht na hÉireann''' and (2) '''[[Northern Ireland Genealogy|Northern Ireland]]''', one of the four constituent countries of the [[United Kingdom]] (together with [[England Genealogy|England]], [[Scotland Genealogy|Scotland]], and [[Wales Genealogy|Wales]]). Prior to 1922 the island of Ireland was one country. The language most widely spoken is English.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Ireland," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland, accessed 24 March 2016.</ref> In the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Gaelic language has official status; in Northern Ireland it has some official recognition along with Ulster Scots. |
| *[[Ireland Cemeteries|Cemeteries]]
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| *[[Ireland Census|Census]]
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| *[[Ireland Church Directories|Church Directories]]
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| *[[Ireland Church History|Church History]]
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| *[[Ireland Church Records|Church Records]]
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| *[[Ireland Civil Registration- Vital Records|Civil Registration]]
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| *[[Ireland Court Records|Court Records]]
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| *[[Ireland Directories|Directories]]
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| *[[Ireland Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]
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| *[[Ireland Gazetteers|Gazetteers]]
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| *[[Ireland Genealogy|Genealogy]]
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| *[[Ireland Heraldry|Heraldry]]
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| *[[Ireland History|History]]
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| *[[Ireland Jewish Records|Jewish Records]]
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| *[[Ireland Land and Property|Land and Property]]
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| *[[Ireland Language and Languages|Languages]]
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| *[[Ireland Maps|Maps]]
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| *[[Ireland Military Records|Military Records]]
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| *[[Ireland Names Personal|Names Personal]]
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| *[[Ireland Naturalization and Citizenship|Naturalization and Citizenship]]
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| *[[Ireland Newspapers|Newspapers]]
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| *[[Ireland Nobility|Nobility]]
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| *[[Ireland Occupations|Occupations]]
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| *[[Ireland Periodicals|Periodicals]]
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| *[[Ireland Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc|Poorhouses, Poor Law, Etc.]]
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| *[[Ireland Probate Records|Probate Records]]
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| *[[Ireland Schools|Schools]]
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| *[[Ireland Societies|Societies]]
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| *[[Ireland Taxation|Taxation]]
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| *[[Ireland Websites|Websites]]
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| | |<span class="community_button">[[Online Research Help|Online<br>Research Help]]</span> |
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| | The map below shows the whole of Ireland. The six counties of Northern Ireland are divided from the rest by a heavy black line. |
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| Chose one of the topics at the left or read on.
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| == Introduction == | | ==Counties== |
| | Click on a county to locate more information about resources in that county. |
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| Ireland is an island divided into two countries: Northern Ireland, a constituent part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, also known as Eire. Before 1922 it was one country comprised of thirty-two counties within four provinces: Connaught, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster.
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| The two countries in Ireland today are:
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| | | '''Northern Ireland Counties (Post-1922)'''<br> |
| *Northern Ireland with six counties
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| *Republic of Ireland with twenty-six counties
| | <li>[[County Antrim, Ireland Genealogy|Antrim, Northern Ireland]] </li> |
| | | <li>[[County Armagh, Ireland Genealogy|Armagh, Northern Ireland]] </li> |
| For further historic information, see [[Counties of Ireland]]. <br>
| | <li>[[County Down, Ireland Genealogy|Down, Northern Ireland]] </li> |
| | | <li>[[County Fermanagh, Ireland Genealogy|Fermanagh, Northern Ireland]]</li> |
| == Counties ==
| | <li>[[County Londonderry, Ireland Genealogy|Londonderry (''Derry''), Northern Ireland]] </li> |
| | | <li>[[County Tyrone, Ireland Genealogy|Tyrone, Northern Ireland]] </li><br> |
| The map below shows the whole of Ireland. The six counties of Northern Ireland are divided from the rest by a heavy black line. Note that Donegal is part of the Republic of Ireland.
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| | | '''Republic of Ireland Counties''' |
| '''Click on a county to go to that county's page:''' {{Irelandimagemap}}
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| | | <li>[[County Carlow, Ireland Genealogy|Carlow]]</li> |
| '''Or click on a county name below:'''
| | <li>[[County Cavan, Ireland Genealogy|Cavan]]</li> |
| | | <li>[[County Clare, Ireland Genealogy|Clare]]</li> |
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| | <li>[[County Cork, Ireland Genealogy|Cork]]</li> |
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| | <li>[[County Donegal, Ireland Genealogy|Donegal]]</li> |
| | [[County Antrim|Antrim]] *
| | <li>[[County Dublin, Ireland Genealogy|Dublin]]</li> |
| | [[County Dublin|Dublin]]
| | <li>[[County Galway, Ireland Genealogy|Galway]]</li> |
| | [[County Limerick|Limerick]]
| | <li>[[County Kerry, Ireland Genealogy|Kerry]]</li> |
| | [[County Roscommon|Roscommon]]
| | <li>[[County Kildare, Ireland Genealogy|Kildare]]</li> |
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| | <li>[[County Kilkenny, Ireland Genealogy|Kilkenny]]</li> |
| | [[County Armagh|Armagh]] *
| | <li>[[County Laois, Ireland Genealogy|Laois (''Queens'')]]</li> |
| | [[County Fermanagh|Fermanagh]] *
| | <li>[[County Leitrim, Ireland Genealogy|Leitrim]]</li> |
| | [[County Londonderry|Londonderry (Derry)]] *
| | <li>[[County Limerick, Ireland Genealogy|Limerick]]</li> |
| | [[County Sligo|Sligo]]
| | <li>[[County Longford, Ireland Genealogy|Longford]]</li> |
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| | <li>[[County Louth, Ireland Genealogy|Louth]]</li> |
| | [[County Carlow|Carlow]]
| | <li>[[County Mayo, Ireland Genealogy|Mayo]]</li> |
| | [[County Galway|Galway]]
| | <li>[[County Meath, Ireland Genealogy|Meath]]</li> |
| | [[County Longford|Longford]]
| | <li>[[County Monaghan, Ireland Genealogy|Monaghan]]</li> |
| | [[County Tipperary|Tipperary]]
| | <li>[[County Offaly, Ireland Genealogy|Offaly (''Kings'')]]</li> |
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| | <li>[[County Roscommon, Ireland Genealogy|Roscommon]]</li> |
| | [[County Cavan|Cavan]]
| | <li>[[County Sligo, Ireland Genealogy|Sligo]]</li> |
| | [[County Kerry|Kerry]]
| | <li>[[County Tipperary, Ireland Genealogy|Tipperary]]</li> |
| | [[County Louth|Louth]]
| | <li>[[County Waterford, Ireland Genealogy|Waterford]]</li> |
| | [[County Tyrone|Tyrone]] *
| | <li>[[County Westmeath, Ireland Genealogy|Westmeath]]</li> |
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| | <li>[[County Wexford, Ireland Genealogy|Wexford]]</li> |
| | [[County Clare|Clare]]
| | <li>[[County Wicklow, Ireland Genealogy|Wicklow]]</li> |
| | [[County Kildare|Kildare]]
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| | [[County Mayo|Mayo]]
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| | [[County Waterford|Waterford]]
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| | [[County Cork|Cork]]
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| | [[County Kilkenny|Kilkenny]]
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| | [[County Meath|Meath]]
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| | [[County Westmeath|Westmeath]]
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| | [[County Donegal|Donegal]]
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| | [[County Laois|Laois (Queens) ]]
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| | [[County Monaghan|Monaghan]]
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| | [[County Wexford|Wexford]]
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| | [[County Down|Down]] *
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| | [[County Leitrim|Leitrim]]
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| | [[County Offaly|Offaly (Kings)]]
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| | [[County Wicklow|Wicklow]]
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| ==== *These counties make up [[Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland]] ==== | | ==References== |
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| == Beginners Corner == | | <div style="clear:both"></div> |
| | | [[Category:Ireland]] |
| ==== Research Guidance ====
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| If you are just beginning to research your Irish ancestors, here are some helps to get you started. Choose an event to learn about in the life of your Irish ancestors:
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| *[[Ireland Research Guidance|Birth]]
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| *[[Ireland Research Guidance: Marriage 1619-1863|Marriage]]
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| *[[Ireland Research Guidance: Death 1619-1863|Death/Burial]]
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| *[[Ireland Emigration and Immigration|Immigration]]
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| ==== BYU's ''Ireland Research Guide'' ====
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| You may also wish to review the [http://net.lib.byu.edu/fslab/researchoutlines/Europe/Ireland.pdf Ireland Research Guide]. This 538-page resource is from the BYU Family History Library at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and is a collection of many reference sources and articles (far more than just the Ireland Research Outline that appears first). The information is out of date and does not include online sources, but it is still valuable.
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| ==== Records Available on FamilySearch ====
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| *Listing of all [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927084 records collections for Ireland] available on FamilySearch.org
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| '''Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:'''
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| *[[Ireland Births (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Ireland Births (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
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| *[[Ireland Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Ireland Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
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| *[[Ireland Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Ireland Marriages (FamilySerach Historical Records)]]
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| *[[Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]
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| == News & events ==
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| *Join a Community of Ireland researchers! Ask questions, help others, and share your research successes on [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ireland-Genealogy-Research-Community/111217125636860 Facebook] and/or [[Join a Skype Research Community#Europe|Skype]].
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| *On 11 October the [http://www.familyhistory.ie/ Genealogical Society of Ireland] will sponsor a lecture on Court and Prison Records by Brian Donovan.
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| *32,000 baptism records posted by [http://monaghan.rootsireland.ie/ '''RootsIreland'''] for County Monaghan.<br>
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| *Irish census records, 1901 and 1911, are now being digitized by the [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ National Archives of Ireland].
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| *[http://www.librarycouncil.ie/irishlibrarynews/december-2010-308/a1/ Clare Library wins major award for genealogy]. "... includes invaluable transcriptions of Tithe Applotment Books, gravestone inscriptions with photographs ..."<br>
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| == Did You Know? ==
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| *Between 1831 and 1841 in Ireland, 34,090 recruits joined the Army.
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| *The [http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/index.htm Princess Grace Irish Library] provides online biographical & bibliographical information on 4,500 Irish writers on its EIRData website. EIRData, which stands for Electronic Irish Records Dataset, was compiled by Dr. Bruce Stewart of the University of Ulster. The site also contains primary and secondary bibliographies, commentaries, quotations and notes.
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| *The term 'Census Strays' refers to people who are born in one place whose name appears in a census in another place. A page on the [http://www.nifhs.org/census.htm North of Ireland Family History Society] website contains details of over 15,000 records of persons living in households with one or more people of Irish origin. These "strays" compiled by the Society were sent in from the UK and the rest of the world. office
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| *Records of Officers from first Irish Police force on internet. Record of more than 80,000 officers from the 1st Irish Police Force are being released on line. It will contain personal details of every man that enlisted in the Irish Constabulary between 1816-1921 including their name, year and place of birth, age of enlistment and marital status. It is on the Ancestry Subscription site.
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| *The National University of Ireland in Galway, in conjunction with the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, has created an online index to the landed estates of Connaught Province covering c.1700-1914. Though the project was not primarily intended as a genealogical tool, it is that, and they are to be commended for creating this great resource. The index can be searched alphabetically by the names of estates, families, and houses, and the website includes maps and images of the great houses. The index is found at the [http://landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/ Landed Estates] website.
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| == Useful websites ==
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| *[http://www.nationalarchives.ie/ National Archives of Ireland]
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| *[http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html Irish Genealogy] -- particularly for Dublin City and counties Carlow, Cork and Kerry.
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| *[http://www.brsgenealogy.com/ Irish Family History Foundation's online searchable database]
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| *[http://www.familyhistory.ie/ Cumann Geinealais na hÉireann - Genealogical Society of Ireland]
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| *[http://www.irishhistoricmaps.ie/historic/ Historic Maps]
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| *[http://www.from-ireland.net/ From Ireland]
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| *[http://www.askaboutireland.ie/ Ask About Ireland]
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| *[http://www.genuki.org.uk/ GenUKI]
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| *[http://www.irelandxo.com/ Ireland Reaching Out<br>]
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| *[http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/ Irish Times Ancestor Search]
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| *[http://www.looking4kin.com/group/ireland Looking 4 Kin Genealogy & Family History Network - Ireland]
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| ;[[Ireland Websites|More Ireland Websites ....]]
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