Resources

Family history and genealogy resources. If you would like to add any relevant resource sites to this page, please email us at: info@clanmcgrath.org

Census Records

Search the Census (1821, 1841, 1851, 1901 & 1911)

www.census.nationalarchives.ie

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Electronic Catalogue / Will Calendars / Freeholder Records / Ulster Covenant / Church Records / Landed Estate Records

www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni

General Search for Births, Deaths and Marriages

Births and Deaths (registration starts in 1864). Marriages (registration for non-Catholic marriages, including Registry marriages from 1845; Catholic marriages from 1864).

Church records for Kerry, Cork, Carlow and Dublin; also includes Wills and Tithe records for the Republic of Ireland and Wills for the whole of Ireland up until 1922. Now includes all civil births from 1864 until 1917 for the whole of Ireland.

www.irishgenealogy.ie

Civil Registration Dublin / Roscommon

www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/GRO_Research.aspx

Civil Registration / Belfast

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/go-groni-online

Migration Records

Ellis Island / 51 million + passenger record archive

www.ellisisland.org

Castle Garden / The US First Immigration Centre – 11 million records of immigrants who arrived in New York between 1820 and 1892

www.castlegarden.org

British Parliamentary Papers / Documenting Ireland. Parliament, People and Migration

www.dippam.ac.uk

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies / a dedicated migration resource centre on the island of Ireland with specialist expertise in the story of the migration of the peoples of the island of Ireland across the globe.

www.mellonmigrationcentre.com

New York City History – Ellis Island: Useful links supplied by US National Law Firm Parker Waichman LLP

www.yourlawyer.com/library/

Military Records

National Archives, UK – Documents Online, Catalogue, Medal Index.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/default.htm

Commonwealth War Graves Commission / Search for war combatant casualties online.

www.cwgc.org

Western Front Association / First World War archive

http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/

The Somme Museum and Association / Created to ensure that the sacrifices of all those from Ireland who served in the First World War – and those of their families – would continue to be honoured and remembered.

http://www.sommeassociation.com/

US Military Records / Run by Ancestry.com

www.fold3.com

The Gazette / Official public record for the UK – includes military awards and citations

www.thegazette.co.uk

Records of military in the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland from 1922 to 1970s, as well as material pertaining to the Irish volunteers and the Independence movement 1913-1921

www.militaryarchives.ie

The Inniskillings Regimental Museum / The Royal Inniskillings were a regiment raised in Co. Fermanagh dating from the late 17th century.

www.inniskillingsmuseum.com

War Memorials

www.irishwarmemorials.ie

www.ulsterwarmemorials.ie

www.warmemorials.org/links-northernireland/

Maps

History From Headstones / A project of the Ulster Historical Foundation to encourage people to take an interest in the graveyards of Northern Ireland and to provide an online resource for those searching for their ancestors.

https://www.ancestryireland.com/research-projects/history-from-headstones-online/

Catholic Diocese of Clogher

www.clogherdiocese.ie

Church of Ireland Diocese of Clogher

www.clogher.anglican.org/Parishes/

Griffiths Valuation / Maps for the whole of Ireland. It is possible to identify individual townlands

www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation

S Wilson / Features access to the 1834 Ordnance Survey Map of Ireland

www.swilson.info

Townlands / Allows visitors to search for individual townlands in the whole of Ireland

www.townlands.ie