Family History

Irish Family History

Genuki: Ireland
Gateway to many national and county resources.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/ big/ irl/

IrelandGenWeb
Gateway to county resources
http://www.irelandgenweb.com/

Irish Ancestors
You have to pay for the results of searches but there is also a lot of free information. Click 'Site Map' on the menu to see a large range of links that give free information. For a good introduction, click 'Site Map', then in the 'Articles' section click 'Irish family history'.
http://scripts.ireland.com/ ancestor/

Irish Family History Foundation
The coordinating body for a network of county based centres. You can have research carried out for you from the millions of genealogical records the centres have gathered. The centres are now making their records available online
http://www.irish-roots.ie/

Irish Family Research
A wide range of databases you can search online
http://www.irishfamilyresearch.co.uk

Irish Genealogical Research Society
Includes details of the society's library in London and links to other sites for Irish family history.
http://www.igrsoc.org/

Irish Genealogy
Various chargeable search services but also a free introductory document called 'Tracing your ancestors'. Click the 'Tracing your ancestors' link on the menu for a page that enables you to download the document.
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie

Irish Origins
Includes the definitive versions of Irish ancestor records and survey maps of Ireland associated with Griffith's Primary Valuation of Ireland, as well as the Irish Wills Index (1484-1858) and the 1851 Dublin City Census.
http://www.irishorigins.com/

Irish Roots
Gateway provided by The Irish Family History Foundation, "the co-ordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and in Northern Ireland which have computerised tens of millions of Irish ancestral records of different types". Provides links to the Irish Family History Foundation centre for each county
http://www.irishroots.net

Moving Here: Irish Roots
This 'Tracing your roots' section of the 'Moving Here' web site gives a great deal of information on how to research your Irish roots, looking at the resources available both in Ireland and in the UK.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/ galleries/ roots/ irish/ irish.htm

Northern IrelandGenWeb
Gateway to resources.
http://www.rootsweb.com/ ~nirwgw/

University of Strathclyde Library Services
List of useful addresses, with links, primarily for Scottish family history, but it includes addresses for the main Irish records too.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/ Departments/ JHLibrary/ fam_h2.html

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Page last updated: 29 September 2008