The Ulster Historical Foundation team and I had a rollicking good time talking about the challenges Americans have doing Irish research. Fintan Mullan, Executive Director of UHF; Gillian Hunt, Research Officer; and William Roulston, Research Director of UHF walk us through what not to do in our genealogy research.
Five Common Misconceptions or Mistakes in Irish Research:
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Music: My Days Have Been So Wondrous and Free, composed by Francis Hopkinson in 1788 in Philadelphia, www.amclassical.com, Creative Commons license, some rights reserved.
Ulster Historical Foundation - ancestryireland.com - be sure to check out their research services, record links, and courses.
Irish Genealogy Essentials Course Online Feb-March 2021
Beyond 2022 Project - beyond2022.ie
1911 and 1901 Ireland Census - census.nationalarchives.ie
Griffith’s Valuation - askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation
National Archives of Ireland - genealogy.nationalarchives.ie
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) - www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni
General Register Office, Northern Ireland - www.nidirect.gov.uk/groni
Historic birth, marriage and death records for Ireland - www.irishgenealogy.ie
Registry of Deeds online index project - http://irishdeedsindex.net/index.html
Roman Catholic parish registers, up to 1880 - http://registers.nli.ie/
PRONI Historical Maps viewer - www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/search-proni-historical-mapsviewer
Northern Ireland Place Name Project - www.placenamesni.org
Placenames Database of Ireland - logainm.ie
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