An Idiot's Guide To Tracing Ancestors

Glin Historical Society

8:00pm

23 Nov 2011

by Paddy Waldron

WWW version: http://www.pwaldron.info/Glin/

Outline:

  • Where do I start?
  • Cahara House
  • The Sleemans
  • The Fitzgeralds
  • The Pegums
  • Where do I finish?
  • Where do I start?

    Google

    Google is great for more unusual names or combinations of names, like "quin sleeman"; but Google, by accident or design, does not harvest many genealogy sites.

    Limerick

    Archives
    Limerick City Council website (Jacqui Hayes)
    Local Studies
    Limerick City Council website (Mike Maguire)
    Museum
    Limerick City Council website (Brian Hodkinson)
    City Councillors 1841-2009
    Families
    Limerick City Council website
    Chronicle Obituaries by year
    Limerick City Council website
    Alphabetical listings of obituaries
    Limerick City Council website
    Mount St Lawrence 1855-2008
    Limerick City Council website
    Limerick City Trades Register 1769-1925
    Limerick City Trades Register - Advanced Search
    Magazine of Magazines
    Digitisation Project: The Magazine of Magazines, 18th Century Limerick Publication
    Mark Humphrys' family tree
    Notable Mayors in Limerick's History
    IFHF
    Pay-per-view online Irish ancestral Birth, Death and Marriage records for Co. Limerick. Genealogy research center - Limerick Genealogy

    Ireland

    1901 and 1911 Census of Ireland
    Irish Genealogy
    FamilySearch.org --- Irish Civil Registration Indexes
    FamilySearch.org --- Ireland Births and Baptisms
    FamilySearch.org --- Ireland Marriages
    FamilySearch.org --- Ireland Deaths
    Griffiths Valuation (askaboutireland - free)
    Griffiths Valuation (Irish Origins - subscription)
    Griffiths Valuation (Find My Past - subscription; also includes Landed Estates Court Rentals)
    Townland index (SeanRuad RIP)
    IreAtlas Townland Search Form
    Lewis, Samuel: Topographical Dictionary of Ireland
    Architects Dictionary
    Online newspaper archives

    U.K.

    England and Wales BMD indexes I
    England & Wales GRO
    Certificate Ordering Service
    UKBMD
    1901 Census of England and Wales Online
    1911 Census of England and Wales
    ScotlandsPeople
    CWGC :: Search
    London Gazette

    U.S.

    Ellis Island
    Ellis Island II
    SSDI
    California Death Records

    Australia

    Birth Death and Marriage Records - Australia
    Web Sites for Genealogists
    NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

    World - free

    IGI search
    FamilySearch.org --- Free Family History and Genealogy Records

    World - subscription

    Ancestry.com

    Cahara House

    The Sleemans

    The Fitzgeralds

    The Pegums

    Where do I finish?