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Links

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Genealogy

• Yahoo
  • Genealogy
    • surnames
    • reference (also here)
    • by region

• Google
  • Genealogy
    • surnames
    • reference (and here and here)
    • by region

• Ireland
  • surnames (and here)
  • Irish Times
  • Genealogical Society Of Ireland
  • Irish Family History Society (formerly here)
  • Irish Genealogical Society International
  • Irish Ancestral Research Association
  • Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations

• UK
  • surnames

• "Who Do You Think You Are?"
  • Irish version by Mint Productions

• Events
  • Family History Show
  • Who Do You Think You Are? Live
  • Doors Open Day
  • Open House UK
  • Open House Dublin (see here)

GENUKI

• GENUKI
• guide
• search

• Search GENUKI: with Google.

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Family trees online

• LDS online

• meta-search engine
• meta-search engine

• RootsWeb
  • ROOTS surname list (use "IRL" to restrict to Ireland)

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Discussion groups, chat, usenet, and mailing lists

• lists (and here)

• genealogy.com
  • GenForum discussion forums (and direct to surnames, or via here)

• ancestry.com
  • message boards

• RootsWeb
  • mailing lists (archives online)
  • search archives
  • ROOTS-L

• rootschat

• Usenet
  • soc.genealogy.*
    • soc.genealogy.ireland
    • soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland

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Other Genealogy

• The Genealogical Research Directory

• cemeteries (and here)
  • obituaries (and here)
    • Irish obituaries
  • memorialinscriptions.org.uk
  • interment.net
    • Ireland
  • findagrave.com
    • Ireland
  • irishgraves.com
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • National Graves Association (Ireland)

• Human Longevity Records (also here and here and here and here)
  • The oldest known human who has ever lived is Jeanne Calment of France. She was conceived 1874, born 1875, died 1997, age 122 yrs.
  • Oldest people alive right now. People from 1895 are still alive.

• FTW files
  • Family Tree Maker (or via here or here)     [DO NOT USE - INSTALLS DSS SPYWARE - See here and here.]
  • Family Archive Viewer (or here) - free viewer for FTW files     [DO NOT USE - INSTALLS DSS SPYWARE]
    • View - Genealogy Report
    • File - Export - save as txt
  • Spyware

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Reference

• reference
  • Biography
  • Quotations
  • Dictionaries

• Google dictionary

• calculators (and here)
• Historical value of money convertor (or via here) - How much is n pounds or dollars in the past in today's money?

• Nursery Rhymes (and here and here)

• Etymology (origin of words)
  • Online Etymology Dictionary

• flags
  • Flags Of The World

• Latin versions of personal names
• List of old professions, occupations and trades (and here)

Encyclopedias

• encyclopedias

• Wiki systems
  • Wikipedia

• Wikimedia Foundation projects
  • Wikipedia
  • Wiktionary
  • Wikinews

• In defence of Wikipedia

• Wikimedia Commons (public domain images)
  • Ireland
  • UK

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Books (separate page)

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Maps

• maps (and here and here)
  • by region
  • University of Texas map collection
  • Google Earth (need to download client)

• Google maps (and US street maps)
  • Google Maps API
  • Google street view

• US gazetteer that links to maps and census data

• postal codes
  • UK post codes

Maps of UK

• Maps of UK
• Counties of UK
  • Counties of England (and article)
  • Traditional counties of England

• Historic maps
  • Old-Maps.co.uk
  • London street map of 1827
  • Victorian London street names
  • changed London street names

• Falling Rain world map
  • places in UK
  • places in Ireland

• AA (or via here)
  • AA Ireland

• Geograph (photos of every grid square in UK and Ireland) (public domain images)

Maps of Ireland

• Maps of Ireland
  • Maps of Ireland and Dublin

• Historic maps
  • Irish Townland Maps
  • Irish Historic Maps (old OS maps online, pay-to-view)

• I am still looking for:
  1. A detailed place map of Ireland (as detailed as the OSI Discovery Series), where you can link to a placename.
  2. A detailed street map of Dublin (as detailed as the OSI street map), where you can link to a street.

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Best maps of UK and Ireland

1. streetmap.co.uk - hard-to-use user interface - draws ugly arrow on image
   1. Hi-res for London.
   2. Hi-res for UK.
   3. No Dublin and Ireland.
   4. Link to by postcode.

2. multimap.com
   1. Hi-res for London.
   2. Medium-res for UK.
   3. Medium-res for Dublin and Ireland.
   4. Link to by postcode.

3. Google - can embed maps on my site
   1. Medium-res for London.
   2. Medium-res for UK.
   3. Medium-res for Dublin and Ireland.
   4. Link to by postcode.

   
   

4. OS - Ordnance Survey
   • OSI - Ordnance Survey Ireland

     Map	Resolution	Link	Notes
     Map of Britain	HI-RES	Can't link to it	Can use 10 images on my website
     Street map of London	LO-RES	Can't link to it	Can use 10 images on my website
     Street map of Britain	LO-RES	Can't link to it	Can use 10 images on my website

   
   

5. discoverireland.ie
   • same map as at live.com

     Map	Resolution	Link
     Map of Ireland	HI-RES	Can't link to it
     Street map of Dublin	HI-RES	Can't link to it

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Telephone

• List of country codes (and here)
  • Irish telephone numbering plan
    • List of Irish dialling codes (and here and here)
    • (todo) find map of Irish area codes
  • UK telephone numbering plan
    • List of UK dialling codes

• phone books (and here)
  • US phone dir (and here)
  • UK phone dir
  • Irish phone dir on Web

• Old British Phone Books, 1880 onwards

• yellow pages
  • UK yellow pages
    • Thomson directory
  • Irish yellow pages
    • YourLocal directory

• tripadvisor.com (Bed and Breakfasts, ratings and comments)
  • Co.Limerick
  • Co.Kerry

• UK Electoral Roll (and here and here)
• 192.com

• UK companies info
  • login
• UK and Irish companies info

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Reference - History

• history (and here and here)

• Irish history (and here and here)
  • History of Ireland 1801-1922

• Irish history timelines
  • Wikipedia timelines
  • Chronology of Ireland
  • timeline
  • NI timeline

• The 1916-23 period

• The 1916 Rising

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Reference - Local History

UK

• antiqueprints.com
  • ancestryimages.com - Public domain images of old prints.
• country house database
  • Ireland

• Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
• English Heritage

• Listed buildings
  • Images of England will put online images of every listed building in England.
  • Listed buildings of Scotland

• Wikipedia
  • UK buildings
  • UK castles
  • Irish buildings
  • Irish castles

• Photos of UK and Ireland castles
• Photos of UK and Ireland castles
• British Castles, Stately Homes and Houses (or via here)
• Castles of Wales
  • index of castles
  • index of persons

• Shakespeare (also here and here and here)
  • complete works of Shakespeare
  • searchable Shakespeare

Ireland

• Buildings of Ireland
• Dictionary of Irish Architects

• images:
  • irelandposters.com
  • oldirishimages.com

• CSO - Central Statistics Office
• OPW - Office of Public Works
  • Dúchas The Heritage Service
  • Dept. Arts, Heritage Heritage of Ireland

• NIAH - National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
• NMI - National Museum of Ireland

• Cork Multitext Project
• The CELT project (online texts)
• Irish Script on Screen

• An Taisce

• Pictures of Irish churches
  • Catholic
  • Church of Ireland

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Reference - Family History

Royalty

• Royalty
• English Royalty

• Wikipedia
  • Monarchy
  • Royal families
  • List of English monarchs
  • List of British monarchs

• website and FAQ of soc.genealogy.medieval

• historical list of English monarchs (incl biographies of many associated people)
  • up to Elizabeth I
  • James I to date

• LDS Ancestral File
  • Victoria
  • Edward III

• Alternative royal genealogies
  • Royal genealogy web (multiple people per page)
  • This comes from the original ROOTS-L Royal archive

• French Royal family
• The Royalty In History Page
• FAQ of alt.talk.royalty has discussion of who would be legitimate heir to various defunct monarchies, such as Holy Roman, Tsars, France, etc.
  • British FAQ

Brian Tompsett

• Brian Tompsett (and here and here)

• Genealogy (or via here or here)

• The Genealogy of the British Royal Family
  • Victoria (or here)
  • surnames
  • search e.g. for Salisbury
  • misc data
  • sources

• The Genealogy of Brian Boru (or via here) (apparently now gone)
  • Brian Boru in boru and royal web

• The Genealogy of the US Presidents (or via here)
  • surname index (or via here)
  • This is compiled from the work of Otto-Georg Richter, 1994.
  • His work is NOT based on [The Presidents, 1993].

Search Tompsett's site: with Google.

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Peerage

• Noble families
• List of peerages

• hereditarytitles.com (direct to site map)
  • Peerage and Baronetage

• thepeerage.com
• Elizabethan Peerage

• The British Peerage
  • The Peerage
  • The Landed gentry

• Peerages of the United Kingdom
  • Peerage of England (up to 1707)
  • Peerage of Great Britain (1707-1801)
  • Peerage of the United Kingdom (1801 to date)

  • Peerage of Scotland (up to 1707)
  • Peerage of Ireland (up to 1922)

• Explanation of titles
• Peerage - Seat in House of Lords. Head of family is peer. "Nobility" is families headed by a peer.
• The British system of aristocratic honorifics

Ranking

Peerage in yellow:

Title	Other forms	Wife	Inherited	Seat in House of Lords	Still being created?
Duke	His Grace, Duc	Her Grace, Duchess	YES	YES	None outside Royal family since 1874 (Churchill was offered but declined in 1955)
Marquess	Lord ---, Marquis	Lady ---, Marchioness	YES	YES	Not since 1936
Earl	Lord ---, Count, Comte	Lady ---, Countess	YES	YES	Most recent one created 1984
Viscount	Lord ---, Vicomte	Lady ---, Viscountess	YES	YES	Most recent one created 1983
Baron	Lord ---	Lady ---, Baroness	YES	YES	Not since 1965
Life peer	Lord ---, Baron	Lady ---, Baroness	NO	YES	Being created all the time
Baronet	Sir ---, Bart.	Lady ---	YES	NO	Most recent one created 1991
Knight	Sir ---, Kt.	Lady ---	NO	NO	Being created all the time

European nobility

• European nobility
• European nobility by Herbert Stoyan
  • Genealogy of Charlemagne
  • Internet-Gotha
• Almanach de Gotha

German and Austrian nobility

• Explanation of German nobility

• German Wikipedia
• Translate from German to English
• German dictionaries
• German - English dictionary

• German genealogy
• genealogy.net (German genealogy)
  • index by historical countries and regions
  • German Genealogy: Habsburg Empire

Scottish clans and tartans

• Google
  • clans (and here)
• Yahoo
  • clans (and here)
  • tartans

• Tartans
• Electric Scotland clans
• Nova Scotia clans
• Tartan Finder

Families

• Noble families

• medieval English genealogy
• Baronage Press
  • The Feudal Herald
  • Moncreiffe's Family Records

• Tim Powys-Lybbe

• Stirnet genealogy by Peter Barns-Graham
  • (now pay to view)

Search Stirnet: with Google.

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Politics

Search Dail and Seanad debates: with Google.

Irish politics

• Lords Lieutenant of Ireland
  • Historical list of Lords Lieutenant of Ireland (crown's deputy) (up to 1922) (also called Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Deputy of Ireland)
  • Historical list of Chief Secretaries for Ireland (no.2 post) (up to 1922)
  • Historical list of Governors-General (1922-37)
  • These refer to other posts:
    • Lord Justice of Ireland
    • Justiciar of Ireland

• Historical list of Prime Ministers (head of government) (1922 to date) (see also here)
• Historical list of Presidents (head of state) (1937 to date)

• oireachtas.ie
  • Current and historical lists of TDs and Senators

• Dail and Seanad Debates online
  • historical (since 1919)
  • current session

• Irish elections
  • pre-1922
  • 1922-49
  • 1949-date

• Detailed election results since 1918
  • people
  • general elections
  • by-elections

NI politics

• NI elections
  • results since 1885
  • detailed results since 1992

UK politics

• Hansard 1988 to date
• Hansard 1803 to date

• Historical list of Prime Ministers

• UK elections
  • United Kingdom general elections
  • results

US Politics and US Presidents

• U.S. Presidents

• List of Presidents of the USA

• Brian Tompsett's genealogy of the US Presidents

Popes and Saints

• The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) (also here)

• Popes
  • Historical list of Popes (and here)

• catholic-hierarchy.org
• Historical list of Archbishops of Canterbury

• Saints (and here)
  • List of Saints (and here and here)
  • Calendar of saints

• The genealogy of Popes and Saints

• Sultans of the Ottoman Empire