Over 372,000 articles from three brand new titles have just been added to their of collection of
historic Irish Newspapers; the Irish Times, Weekly Irish Times and the Waterford Standard.
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Irish Newspapers
Over 372,000 articles from three brand new titles have just been added to their of collection of historic Irish Newspapers; the Irish Times, Weekly Irish Times and the Waterford Standard.
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Website revamp to help people search for their Scottish ancestors online. ScotlandsPeople - the website which helps people search for their Scottish ancestors online - has been revamped and relaunched with a new look and a number of new features. National Records of Scotland (NRS) operates ScotlandsPeople, which has on average 3.4m site views a year and around 1 million unique users since its launch in 2002. As part of the most extensive upgrade to the service since 2010, users will be able to search statutory record indexes including birth, death and marriage certificates for free for the first time. Users will now only be charged if they wish to view or download a record image. The new site also features an improved web design which allows customers to access ScotlandsPeople across digital devices, and an enhanced search function which allows them to locate and view records with greater ease. Chief Executive of NRS, Tim Ellis said: “ScotlandsPeople is internationally recognised as the place to start any personal journey into Scottish ancestry. At National Records of Scotland, we’re excited about the new site and look forward to helping both budding and expert genealogists to find out even more about their heritage. continue reading CONAL THOMAS SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 St Luke’s Church in the Coombe hasn’t really been used since it closed to the public in 1975. The old place of worship – which was built between 1715 and 1716 – suffered a fire in 1986, and that’s the most activity its seen in the last few decades. But at last week’s South Central Area Committee Meeting, Dublin City Council Heritage Officer Charles Duggan set out a new vision for the Dublin 8 ruin. The council has plans to fully restore it, and to use the land around the site as a public space. The Graveyard Aesthetic The first and foremost thing to deal with will be the graveyard. “Anything we do must mitigate against any damage or interference with burials,” said Duggan. Dublin City Council is heading up the “graveyard recovery” scheme with a view to creating a new pocket park and landscaping on the site. In 1994, Dublin City Council purchased the site and the graveyard was split in two by a new road. What is now St Luke’s Avenue cut through the “Northern Graveyard” of the church. What’s left will form the site of the pocket park and features. A decade later, a conservation plan was published for St Luke’s, which set out prerequisites for any future restoration or recovery of the site. Those include more soil to create a buffer between the graves underground, and the new plants and pathways. A new boundary wall would run along St Luke’s Avenue with ramped access into the pocket park, a sunken garden with a seating area, and a pergola for small events. The tender to restore the church building was already awarded back in 2006 to the St Luke’s Partnership, a team made up of Derek Tynan Architects and Carrig Conservation. The proposal is essentially to insert a new building into the restored ruins of the church, to mix old and new. Continue reading Dick Eastman is wrong On second thoughts actually no, Dick Eastman is right. The other title is just grabbier. On third thoughts, maybe he’s both right and wrong. Read John Grenhams thoughts on Dick Eastmans take on the future of genealogy. Capture the spirit of an industrial, social and cultural revolution through this invigorating collection of historical portraits from the dawn of the industrialised world! Though it feels like an era marooned almost irretrievably in the distant past, the 1840s &ndash a decade of blistering social and cultural change - is only two lifetimes removed from the present day. There are, in other words, people alive today who knew and associated with people for whom the Gold Rush and the Great Famine were living memories. Having grown up in an Irish country house built that year, 1847 has long proven the source of inspiration and fascination for historian Turtle Bunbury. And in a bid to once more grasp the spirit of the age, he has over the years assembled an archive of the most remarkable stories from those twelve momentous months. Bristling with all manner of human life and endeavour, from American pioneers and German entrepreneurs to circus charlatans and down-and-out songwriters, 1847 is a collection of his most remarkable discoveries to date and a stirring portrait of a chaotic world surging towards the modern. By turns poignant, outlandish, curious and provocative, this is history at its most invigorating - as panorama, as epic. Praise for The Glorious Madness: “An absolutely brilliant book. Patrick Geoghegan, Associate Professor in History at Trinity College, Dublin Turtle Bunbury’s open-handed, clear-sighted and finely written book comes fresh and, I might almost say, redeemed out of the moil and storm of controversy that surrounded the topic of the war, in a thousand different guises in the decades since its end. Turtle holds out his hand in the present, seeking the lost hands of the past, in darkness, in darkness, but also suddenly in the clear light of kindness - in the upshot acknowledging their imperilled existence with a brilliant flourish, a veritable banner, of wonderful stories. Sebastian Barry, author of The Secret Scripture Turtle continues the wonderful listening and yarn-spinning he has honed in the Vanishing Ireland series, applying it to veterans of the First World War. The stories he recreates are poignant, whimsical and bleakly funny, bringing back into the light the lives of people who found themselves on the wrong side of history after the struggle for Irish independence. This is my kind of micro-history. John Grenham, The Irish Times Praise for Vanishing Ireland: A perfect symbiosis between text and images - both similarity affectionate, respectful, humorous, slightly melancholic but never sentimental or nostalgic. This is invaluable social history. Cara Magazine “This is a beautiful and remarkably simple book that will melt the hardest of hearts. Bunbury has a light writing style that lets his interviewees, elderly folk from around the country, tell their stories without interference. Its neither patronising nor overly romantic about the past; just narrating moving tales - The portraits by Fennell are striking, warm and dignified, with a feeling of being invited into peoples lives. The Sunday Times” Gill Books National Archives add more free records
From 15 September 2016, you can access six major new record series on the NAI Website Prerogative and diocesan copies of some wills and indexes to others, 1596 – 1858 Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage Licence Bonds Indexes, 1623 – 1866 Catholic qualification & convert rolls, 1700 – 1845 Valuation Office house, field, tenure and quarto books 1824 – 1856 Shipping agreements and crew lists, 1863 – 1921 Will Registers 1858 – 1922 All of these records are free to access, through searchable databases and linked images of relevant pages. Eventually, they are hopeful that the site will contain all of the important and easily accessible genealogical material in the custody of the National Archives. John Grenham – Irish Roots
Irish genealogy and heritage, 12th September 2016 Welcome to the Promised LandSince last week’s additions to IrishGenealogy’s birth, marriage and death records, I’ve been wallowing around in the site, as happy as a pig in … a toy-shop. I’ve spent almost all my working life dealing with these records, or rather fishing for them through the tiny keyhole provided by the printed indexes. Suddenly we’ve been handed the key itself. There should be conga-lines of genealogists dancing down O’Connell Street. continue reading 08/09/16 Ministers Humphreys and Varadkar launch millions of historic births, deaths and marriage records on www.irishgenealogy.ieThe Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, and the Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar TD, have today (Thursday) announced that over 2.5 million images of historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths from the General Register Office (GRO) are now available online for the first time. The images, which include over 12.5 million individual records dating back as far as 1864, will add considerably to the large volume of historical data already accessible on www.irishgenealogy.ie free of charge. Among the records are the birth, marriage and death register for Tom Crean, the Antarctic explorer, whose grandson Brendan O’Brien joined the Ministers for today’s event in the National Library. The online database also includes death register entries for the Leaders of the 1916 Rising, including James Connolly, Thomas Clarke, Padraig H Pearse and Eamonn Ceannt. Speaking today Minister Humphreys said: “This is the first time that this huge volume of records is being made available online and it is a very important development in family history research for Irish people and Irish descendants both at home and abroad. Anyone wishing to research their family history will have a veritable treasure trove of records available at the click of a button and I’ve no doubt that these records will help unlock many mysteries that people have been trying to solve for years. “I am delighted that through the cooperation of our two Government Departments, Minister Varadkar and I can expand the range of records available online for those wishing to find out more about their family history. Genealogy is becoming increasingly popular, and is an important source of tourism. By providing as much information as possible free online, the Irish Government is leading the way internationally and encouraging the Diaspora to come to Ireland to explore their roots. “The website www.irishgenealogy has grown to be an invaluable resource for historians, researchers and those interested in looking into their family tree. We have re-engaged with our history throughout this centenary year in an unprecedented way, and I am committed to further developing this online resource in the years ahead.” Speaking today Minister Varadkar: “These records give us a new insight into our past and our forebears. We are delighted to launch this incredible set of online records, which will help people in Ireland and around the world to reconstruct their own family histories. It is a triumph of exploration, because the records allow us all to explore our own past, and discover new things about our ancestors. What used to require weeks and months of research in dusty archives can now be done online in a matter of minutes. “Given the theme of exploration, it’s fitting that we are joined at this launch by the grandson and great-grandson of one of the greatest polar explorers of all time: Tom Crean. For the first time, the original register entries of Tom Crean’s birth, marriage and death are now available to view. These records also provide an incredible insight into the 1916 Rising which helped to create the modern Irish State. We can view the death registers for its leaders, including James Connolly, Patrick Pearse, and Thomas Clarke. It helps to bring the past alive, and we can piece together fragments to create a whole story.” Ahead of the launch tomorrow, the General Register office have started to upload civil registers of Birth, marriage and Death to the irishgenealogy.ie website These are the historic records of Births over 100 years, Marriages over 75 years and Deaths over 50 years. Most I've checked have an image attached. Yipee.
The historic records of Births over 100 years ago, Marriages over 75 years ago and Deaths over 50 years ago of the General Register Office (GRO), will soon be available to view on www.irishgenealogy.ie, following their launch at 5.30pm on Thursday 8th September 2016.wing their launch at
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