Ireland Genealogy Websites

 Ireland  Websites

Archives and Libraries

• Clare County Library hosts the best county collection of online Irish family history.
• Limerick City Archives Digital Collections
• National Archives of Ireland holds manuscript and microfilm collections & is working to digitize and index the 1901 & 1911 census.

• Ulster Historical Foundation Contains a lot of useful information and the ability to do a free search on a surname and/or given name.  There are more than two million entries in the various databases. A search for the surname Dobb provides reference to 448 sources where the name appears.

• Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland Formed in 1907, it was made up of the three churches which held the Presbyterian Order in Ireland - the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland - with the object of promoting the knowledge of, and advance public education in, the history of the churches of the Presbyterian Order in Ireland by various means, including the collection and preservation of historic materials and records of these churches.
• Waterford County Library contains online resources such as death registers 1864-1901, grave memorials, and trade directories from 1824-1910.

Church Records

• Irish Family History Foundation holds an online index to Irish parish registers from nineteen counties.
• Irish Genealogy had searchable church records for Dublin City and for the counties of Carlow, Cork and Kerry.
• www.familysearch.org Indexes to births/baptisms, 1620-1881; marriages 1619-1898; (Most of the church records do not go into the 1600s-1700s)
• www.rootsireland.ie ($)
• www.irishgenealogy.ie (Free) Indexes and images; Counties Carlow, Dublin, & Kerry, more to come.
• www.proni.gov.uk (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland)
• www.Ireland.anglican.org (Representative Church Body Library)
• www.nli.ie (National Library of Ireland) 
• Irish church records on microfilm at the Family History Library
  

Census and Census Substitutes

• The 1901 and 1911 census are indexed online at the national archives of Ireland.
• wiki.familysearch.org- Information on Irish census records, surviving census fragments, and census substitutes. The Family History Library has some surviving census fragments from 1821-1851.
• www.rootsireland.ie- Fragments as early as 1821
• www.ancestry.com- Fragments of the 1841 & 1851 Censuses
• www.irishorigins.com- Dublin City census 1851, 1901; Census of Elphin 1749; Irish 'strays' in England & Wales Census 1841, 1871.
  

Civil Registration

• www.familysearch.org Indexes to Ireland Civil Registration 1845-1958
• wiki.familysearch.org (Ireland Civil Registration)- Guide to birth, marriage, and death certificates in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Also shows what certificates are available at the Family History Library.
• www.groireland.ie- General Registrar's Office (GRO) for the Republic of Ireland (where original certificates are kept)
• www.nidirect.gov.uk/gro- Gneerarl Registrar's Office (GRO) for Northern Ireland (where originial certificates are kept)

Court/Criminal Records

• www.familysearch.org- Irleand Prison Registers, 1790-1924
  
• www.findmypast.ie- Petty Sessions & Prison Registers
  

Emigration Records

• Boston Pilot Search for Missing Friends 1831-1920
• Ancestry.com (includes Filby's Passenger & Immigration Lists Index and indexes to incoming passenger lists for most U.S. ports)

Maps

• IreAtlas is an online version of the index to townlands compiled from the 1851 census.
• Irish Historic Maps Ireland's most comprehensive archive of maps from 1829 to 1913. A small fee is required to use the online maps.

• Environmental Maps Very nice maps although it will take several clicks to get to the greatest detail.

• 1838 Ordnance Survey Map of Mayo, six inch scale

 Miscellaneous

• <a href="http://www.from-ireland.net/">From Ireland</a> A very useful site. Am amazing number of records are available from all counties. Literally thousands of helpful links and other resources are also detailed. In addition, there are a lot of cultural, folklore, and other information available. A YAHOO! mailing list can be subscribed to and you will have at your fingertips help from the many knowledgeable people on the list.

• <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/">Eddies Extracts</a> This site contains many Birth, Marriage and Death notices extracted from various early newspapers such as the Belfast Evening Telegraph, The Witness, Banner of Ulster, Northern Whig and Belfast News-Letter. It also has extracts from the Registers of Deceased Seamen and lists the details of over 25,000 Presbyterians who served in the Great War.

• <a href="http://www.stirnet.com/main/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=79">Stirnet Limited: Families Database: Index</a> (unfettered access requires fee or significant data contribution; manually search index for surnames of interest)

• <a href="http://www.diaspora.ie/">The Irish Diaspora</a> Aspiration, enterprise, adventure, and the Irish around the world.
• Petty Sessions Order Books: 1851-191: This is the lowest court in the whole country. These records were scanned by FamilySearch and are being put online through <a href="http://www.findmypast.ie/search-records/Courts-and-legal">FindMyPast.ie</a>. There is no charge to look at the index but there is a charge to view the actual record.

To view a fairly extensive list of websites for Ireland at the national, county and parish or local levels, you can now view all of The <a href="http://www.fhlfavorites.info/Links/British/Ireland/ireland_main.htm">Family History Library's Patron Desktop "Favorites"</a> online.

A new website for Irish research is at <a href="http://www.Irelandxo.com">www.Irelandxo.com</a> .  It is a free site and is building.

Wills/Probate Records

Indexes for Northern Ireland Probate are available

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