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Researching Ireland at Home and Abroad
– Dwight A. Radford
Sometimes the hardest part of Irish research is actually deciding where to begin and at what point enough information has been gathered so that efforts can move into Irish records. But, the search for Irish origins is a combined research effort in the country where an immigrant settled, and in Irish records—preferably in that order. The biggest mistake a researcher can make when beginning Irish research is to "jump over the water" too quickly. If Irish records are examined prematurely, efforts can quickly come to a stand still.
One of the best strategies in beginning Irish research is to make an inventory of what is already known about a family who immigrated, and then to begin filling in missing information from records in the country where the ancestors settled. The average Catholic and Protestant church records in Ireland start in the late 1700s or early 1800s and are only partially indexed. And many Irish surnames are so common that an inquiry of indexed records would likely produce hundreds of individuals with the same name and no way to know which one is the ancestor. Therefore, learning as much as possible about the immigrant ancestor before taking a research trip to Ireland increases the chances of successfully identifying them once research moves into Irish records. Click to Continue Article
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 Western Ireland, 1691
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 Ireland, 1550-1653
 Cyclopedia of Ireland on CD-ROM, Family History Made Easy: Step by Step, and more!
 Ireland, ca. 1570
 Administrative Divisions in Ireland
Researching Ireland at Home and Abroad
 Probate in Ireland, Part 1: From 1858
 A Nation in Distress: The Poor of Ireland
 Ireland, 1641-1892
 News from the Genealogical Society of Ireland
 Probate in Ireland, Part 2: Up to 1857
 Ireland, ca. 1500
 Ireland, 1550-1653
 Western Ireland, 1691
 Townlands: Focus on Northern Ireland
 Ireland Cancels St. Patrick's Day Parade
 Ireland, 1641-1892
 A Message from the Genealogical Society of Ireland: Foot and Mouth Disease
 Dublin, Ireland, 1610
 Advice for Ireland-bound Researchers
 Ancestry.com Launches New Data Collection for the UK and Ireland
 The 1851 Dublin, Ireland City Census on CD-ROM
 Ancestry.com Launches New United Kingdom and Ireland Family History Collection
 CD-ROM: The Clans of Ireland
 A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland
 Ireland, ca.1500
 Northeast Ireland Campaign, 1690
 Problems Accessing Records in Ireland
 Dublin, Ireland, 1610
 Northeast Ireland Campaign, 1690
 Ireland, 1641-1892
 Wiltshire (England) Parish Records on CD-ROM; Virtual Ireland; Ancestry.com to Attempt Online Reconstruction of the 1890 U.S. Census
 Results of Fire and Famine: Census Records in Ireland 1813-1911
 Tithe Applotment Books of Ireland, 1823-1838 on CD-ROM, South And West Wales Genealogical Index CD-ROM, and more.
 Northeast Ireland Campaign, 1690
 Western Ireland, 1691
Databases
 Ireland Gazetteer and Surname Guide
 Knocktemple Old Cemetery Inscriptions, County Cavan, Ireland
 Ireland Householder's Index, Antrim County
 Antrim, Ireland: Parish and Probate Records
 Down, Ireland: Parish and Probate Records
 Louth, Ireland: Parish and Probate Records
 Ireland 1766 Religious Census
 Ireland, The Royal Irish Constabulary 1816-1921
 Ship Passenger Lists from Ireland to America: Miscellaneous Ships
 Scotch-Irish: The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland and North America, Vol. 2
 Burke's Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland
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