Collins Tracing Your Irish Family History
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Ryan Tubridy. Collins Tracing Your Irish Family History
Collins Tracing your Irish family history. Anthony Adolph
Table of Contents
Foreword
How to use this book
Abbreviations
PART 1 Tracing back to Ireland: first steps
CHAPTER 1 First find your immigrant
Clues to Irish roots
Ask the family
The consequences of famine
The Internet
The online route to Wogan’s roots
Workhouses
Workhouse records
The Irish Diaspora
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 2 Using and storing records
The ‘Irish’ royal family?
Archives
Catholic registers
Storing information
Joseph O’Riley
Civil Registration records
Censuses
Directories
Religious registers
Newspapers
Pedigree conventions
Biographical dictionaries
Wills
Naturalisations
Ché Guevara and Zorro
Shipping lists
Ships’ passenger lists
Local histories
FURTHER READING
PART 2 Tracing back to Ireland: country by country
CHAPTER 3 England and Wales
Early migration
Archives
Societies
Civil Registration
Censuses
1911 census
Directories
Religious registers
Catholic marriages
Newspapers
Biographical dictionaries
Catholic children
Wills
Shipping lists
Other sources
FURTHER READING
Irish roots revealed
CHAPTER 4 Scotland
Archives
Civil Registration
Ancient Scottish pedigrees
Censuses
Directories
Religious registers
Newspapers
Poor Relief
Wills
Other sources
Poor Law records
CHAPTER 5 United States of America
Archives
Societies
Colonisation of America
President Kennedy
Civil Registration
Censuses
Directories
Religious registers
Newspapers
Biographical dictionaries
Wills
Naturalisations
Shipping lists
Army records
Sentenced to transportation
Land records
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 6 Canada
Archives
Civil Registration
Censuses
Directories
Colonisation of Canada
Religious registers
Newspapers
How Irish was Captain Wolfe?
Biographical dictionaries
Wills
Naturalisations
Land grants
Shipping lists
Hudson’s Bay Company
Empire Loyalists
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 7 Argentina
Archives
Societies
Civil Registration
Migration to Argentina
Life on the Pampas
Censuses
Religious registers
Newspapers
Trounced by Evita
Joined-up genealogy
Biographical dictionaries
Wills
Naturalisations
Shipping lists
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 8 Australia
Archives
Civil Registration
Early settlers
Censuses
Directories
Religious registers
Newspapers
Two Irish girls
Biographical dictionaries
Wills
Convicts and free settlers
Magazines
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 9 New Zealand
Archives
Civil Registration
European colonisation
Censuses
Directories
Religious registers
Newspapers
Contact website
Biographical dictionaries
Wills
Naturalisations
Shipping lists
Land records
FURTHER READING
PART 3 Tracing your roots in Ireland
CHAPTER 10 Introducing Ireland
How to find the place of origin within Ireland
Irish sources
Professionals
Visit Ireland
Societies
Magazines
Books
CD-Roms
Websites
Good internet message boards
Biographical dictionaries
Archives
Dublin
Belfast
The County Heritage Centres
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 11 The divisions of Ireland
Townlands
Parishes
Gaelic place names
Dioceses
Baronies
Counties
Provinces
Modern Ireland and the Four Courts
Maps online
Temperance Movement
CHAPTER 12 Griffith’s Valuation and Tithe Applotments
Surveying Ireland
Townland Valuations
An Ulster source
Griffith’s Primary Valuation
Griffith’s cracks the case
Land measurements
The Tithe War
Tithe Applotments
Indexes to Griffiths and the Tithe Applotments
Surname distribution
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 13 Civil Registration
Searching the indexes
Northern Ireland
Tips for searching
The indexes
What the records say
Signed ‘X’
Overcoming problems
Other General Registration records
Lourdes
Pre-1837 records
India
Adoption
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 14 Censuses
1911 and 1901
Changes
Seeking families
Anthony Trollope on Ireland
Transcripts
Censuses before 1901
Irish homes
Old age pensions
Directories
Thackeray’s Irish Sketchbook
CHAPTER 15 Religious registers
Religious registers, of all denominations
Catholics
The Dennings of Cootehill
Church of Ireland
Banns or licence?
The first burial?
Presbyterians
Legacy of the workhouse
The Crotty Schism
Methodists
‘M’ for Methodist?
Quakers
Baptists
Walloons and Huguenots
Clandestine mariages
Congregationalists or Independents
Palatines
Jews
Moravians
The Ulster Covenant
CHAPTER 16 Occupational records
Education
Universities
Civil service
Occupational dictionaries
Coastguards and revenue officers
Doctors
Flax spinners
Freemasons
Innkeepers
Lawyers
Nurses
Policemen
Trade guilds
Trades unions
Postmen
Militia
The Army
Army sources. Officers
Regiments
Other ranks
Medals
Twentieth-century army sources. World Wars I and II
Post-partition
The Irish Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Trust
Army births, marriages and deaths
Royal Marines
Royal Navy sources. Officers
Ratings
The Royal Navy
The Royal Air Force
British armed forces records for the last 80 years
The Merchant Navy
Trinity House Petitions
FURTHER READING
Irish industry
CHAPTER 17 Dictionary of Irish sources
Catholic Qualification Rolls
Deeds Registry
Convert Rolls
Elections
Elphin census, 1749
Estate records
Elphin census
Fiants
Irish Land Commission
Landed Estates Court
Loan funds
Naturalisations
Newspapers
Protestant householders, 1740
Religious census, 1766
Seventeenth-century tax lists
Shipping lists
Wills
Wills after 1858
Registries. The District Probate Registries from 1858: South:
North:
Wills before 1858
A seal of approval
FURTHER READING
PART 4 Tracing ancient Irish roots
CHAPTER 18 Irish names
Christian names
Gaelic pronunciation
Irish surnames
Hereditary surnames
Other types of surname
Anglicisation…
…and de-Anglicisation
Additional surnames
Foreign surnames
The implications for genealogy
Surname dictionaries
Surname sources
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 19 Recorded pedigrees
Annals of the Four Masters
Sources for ancient genealogy
Other published sources
The Crowleys’ ancient roots
You never know…
The ancient pedigrees
Brehon Law
How accurate are they?
FURTHER READING
The O’Neills
KEY
CHAPTER 20 Heraldry
Visitations, and other heraldic records
Visitation pedigrees
Crowley coat of arms
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 21 Milesius was your ancestor
The Lebor Gabála
Is it true?
Who was Scota?
The modern view
Milesius today
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 22 Ancient Irish roots
Neolithic roots
Neolithic roots
Our Bronze and Iron Age ancestors
Genetic evidence
Red hair
‘Deep ancestry’ tests
What was Ireland called?
Gaelic Ireland
Roman Ireland?
Saints Patrick and Columba
Gaelic families
Peoples and realms
Regional power
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 23 The invasions of Ireland
Vikings
The Cambro-Normans
The Fitzgerald-Barry pedigree
KEY
Norman dynasties
Galloglasses
The English influx
Rebellion and Plantation
Surveys of landholding
The Jacobites
The Anglo-Irish
Gaelic survival
Wild Geese sources
The Wild Geese
The struggle for freedom
The Kavanaghs
Convicts
The Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch
Evacuation lists
CHAPTER 24 Modern chieftains
FURTHER READING
CHAPTER 25 Genetics
Common genetic ancestors
Starting a DNA project
Crowley DNA
O’Gara DNA
LEARN MORE ABOUT GENETICS
Useful addresses
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
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To Ann Lavelle, for Extraordinary Ancestors and everything else that followed as a consequence – and whose surname, incidentally, speaks eloquently of her family roots in Co. Mayo.
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Useful Addresses
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