Genealogy in Clare
A Bridge to the Past – Genealogy Information Day
Cultúrlann Sweeney, Kilkee, Co. Clare
1:00pm 11 Aug 2012
by Paddy Waldron
Outline:
Clare County Library
Clare Roots Society
Clare Heritage & Genealogical Research
Centre
Online forums
Other resources
- Clare Heritage &
Genealogical Research Centre (Corofin) provides a commercial research
service (EUR 195+)
- Accounts filed annually at Companies Registration Office
- Directors (31 Dec 2008): John Kelleher; Michael McMahon; Secretary:
Antoinette O'Bryen; Shareholders: ???
- Investments (31 Dec 2008): EUR312,571; Development Grants: EUR205,706
- This Centre once held some of its reserves, to the value of EUR58,190, in
AIB shares, later worth only EUR885 (Irish
Independent, 29 Oct 2010)
- Clare appears to be the only county with no parish records at either ifhf.rootsireland.ie (no
tickbox for Clare) or irishgenealogy.ie
- Unclear whether indexes at Corofin are held on index cards or in a
computer database
- limerick.rootsireland.ie
does have the south-east Clare parishes of Cratloe and Parteen &
Meelick from Limerick diocese
- Alternative (free) sources include:
- Clare Past forum
- County Clare | Ireland
Reaching Out
- By working parish-by-parish across Ireland, Ireland XO seeks to
identify and invite home all our Diaspora, wherever they may be found
across the world.
- Ancestry
Message Board
- Rebranded as Rootsweb
Message Board
- Cousin
Connect queries
- Genforum
- RootsWeb: IRL-CLARE-L
Archives
- RootsWeb
Mailing List Search: IRL-CLARE
- Rootschat
- Chat about your British and Irish Genealogy UK Family History around
England Wales Scotland Ireland. 1881 1901 Census lookups of your
ancestors. Fun and easy to use. Recommended
- Irish
Lives Remembered Clare page
- Welcome to the Tracing your ancestors in CLARE group page. Join Irish
Lives Remembered now to start participating in the group. Tracing Your
Ancestors in CLARE is a FREE Discussion Forum which provides the general
public with a place to ask questions and provide information about their
ancestors from CLARE. Get down to grass roots level in seeking
information about your ancestors through our forums which will help you
with your genealogy research. Here's how it works: 1.SIGN UP as a free
member on our home page - use this every time you visit our site 2.Click
on JOIN GROUP under GROUP OPTIONS on the right hand side of the page. You
can now participate in conversations and ask questions about the
person/family you are tracing by positing your request on the WALL
section of the page 3.Browse the Memorials on the right hand side of the
page as you will then be able to view cemeteries/graveyard pages which
may help you further with your research.
- Kilrush
Local History Group (facebook page, anyone can like, not searchable)
- County Clare Ireland
Genealogy (facebook group, requires invitation to join, searchable)
- Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep
up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and
videos and learn more about the people they meet. This group has two
surname interest lists for Clare, one
arranged by civil parish (address=townland), the
other arranged by surname (address=county).