'Irish Research on the Internet' offers new and exciting ways to research your Irish ancestors using the latest Internet resources and techniques.
Discover how to use the Internet to access material previously only available in libraries, archives, newspaper libraries and local history collections. This fully searchable material (most of it free) opens up new and unprecedented search possibilities.
This book explains what is available, how to find it and how best to use it. The book is suitable for beginners through to experienced rearchers. Use it to start your research, expand on what you know or find new ways to trace those illusive Irish ancestors.
Contents:
1. What you need to know
- Using online digitised books
- How yo start your Irish research
- What else you need to know
2. Names, places and maps
- Irish surnames
- Irish names and nicknames
- Irish place names
- Topograpical dictionaries and gazetteers
- Maps
- Genealogical atlas
- Griffith's Land Valuation of Ireland
3. Archives and libraries
- National Archives of Ireland
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- National Library of Ireland
- Regional libraries
- Other archives and libraries
4. Birth, death and marriage records
- What you should now about civil registration records
- What you should know about church records
- Birth, death and marriage records on FamilySearch
Other birth, death and marriage sites
5. Remote access to subscription databases
- What you need to know
- Newspapers and journals
6. Extend the search
- Family History Archive and FamilySearch library catalog
- Sites to extend the search
- Mailing lists, blogs and podcasts
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