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General Sources across Thomond and Family history

Libraries

• Computers and the Internet can now greatly enhance a library visit:
  1. Bring laptop with all my files.
  2. Bring PDA with all my files on SD card.
  3. PDA / laptop on mobile phone network / Wi-Fi.
  4. Library has plug for PDA / laptop.
  5. Library provides you with computer at desk.

• There still remains though the age-old problem that the library you want is far away, and it may be years before your next visit. Again, Computers and the Internet could help:
  1. Ultimately, libraries publish everything on the Web, so we can research at home.

• Combined web catalog of UK libraries including TCD
• Combined web catalog of Irish libraries including TCD

• UnityWeb
• The Combined Regions
• The Library Council of Ireland
  • notes on UnityWeb

• Timeline of Internet genealogy

Copyright (legal deposit) libraries

• UK and Irish copyright (legal deposit) libraries

• Books

Ireland

• irishorigins.com
  • need AlternaTIFF to zoom and save images

• irishgenealogy.ie
  • search

• irish-roots.ie (or irish-roots.net) (Irish Family History Foundation)
  • Parish records online.
  • search

• NLI - National Library of Ireland
  • opening hours
  • Family history research
  • Lawrence Collection of photographs
  • catalog
  • newspapers catalog

• GO - Genealogical Office and the Ms room at the [NLI]
  • Ms catalog
  • Office of the Chief Herald
  • historical list of holders of office of Ulster King of Arms / Chief Herald of Ireland
  • Consolidated Index to GO, Virginia Wade McAnlis, 1994, [GO] RR
  • Richard J. Hayes, ed., [NLI] RR, [GO] RR, [TCD] RR
    • Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation
    • Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation - Articles in Irish Periodicals

  
  

• NAI - National Archives of Ireland
  • comprises the old:
    1. Public Record Office (which was destroyed in the Civil War 1922)
    2. State Paper Office
  • search of many databases, including Ms in many Irish libraries.
  • see also normal search box on home page
  • Census of Ireland
  • "Memorials of the Dead: Dublin City and County", vol.1-6, 1988-93, NAI open shelves.
  • "Memorials of the Dead: South Dublin", 1990, NAI open shelves.
  • Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922

• wills
  • Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858
  • Index to Prerogative Wills of Ireland, [NLI] RR
    • part one, 1536-1810, Sir Arthur Vicars (see index)
    • part two, 1811-58
  • Index to Irish Wills, 16th cent-1801, [NLI] RR, [NAI] RR
    • vols.1-2, W.P.W. Phillimore
    • vols.3-5, Gertrude Thrift
  • Dublin wills 1634-1858.
  • Abstracts of [LR] wills 1708-1832, [NLI] RR
    • Co.Limerick abstracts
    • Co.Clare abstracts
  • Betham's genealogies abstracted from wills
    • available on [NLI] microfilm, but illegible
    • need to see originals in [NLI] GO Ms 223-54

• marriages
  • Irish Marriages, index to the marriages in "Walker's Hibernian Magazine", 1771 to 1812, by Henry Farrar, [NLI] RR
    • online here and here
    • Partial transcript online.
  • Killaloe Diocese
    • Killaloe Marriage License Bonds (mirror here, see also here)
    • Killaloe Court and Register Book, [NAI] 4 201 31
  • Selected Irish Marriages 1600-1900

  
  

• GROI - General Register Office
  • Research Room is still Joyce House, Lombard St East, Dublin
  • is fully indexed in [LDS.UK]
  • will be computerised

• LR - Property Registration Authority (formerly Land Registry)
  • Land Registry (since 1892)
  • Registry of Deeds (since 1708)
  • Online (pay-to-view)
  • An index may be on microfilm in [LDS.Ir]
  • Registry of Deeds Index Project
  • Locations
    • Current (Dublin) - Land Registry, Setanta Centre, Nassau St
    • Current (Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary) - Land Registry, Cork Road, Waterford
    • Historical archive - Registry of Deeds, Kings Inns, Henrietta St
  • Irish house histories research service
  • Valuation Office, Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street Lower (will research history of a property for a fee)

• Irish public libraries
  • online catalog

• DCA - Dublin City Archives, Pearse St
  • Motor Taxation archives are now here.

• NGI - National Gallery of Ireland (see here)
  • Friends of the Gallery, 90 Merrion Square West.

Military and police

• Irish military
  • Irish War Memorials
  • MAI - Military Archives, Cathal Brugha Barracks (formerly Portobello Barracks), Rathmines, Dublin 6.

• RIC, RUC, PSNI
  • RIC sources
  • RIC and DMP site by Jim Herlihy
  • RUC - Police Museum, Belfast

• DMP, Gardai
  • DMP sources
  • Garda Siochana Historical Society (or via here)
  • GM - Garda Museum and Archives, medieval Record Tower, Dublin Castle

Education

• NUI Graduate and Sessional Lists
  • 1964 edn

• TCD - library of Trinity College Dublin (TCD)     [COPYRIGHT LIBRARY]
  • web catalog
  • combined web catalog
  • 1872 Printed Catalogue
  • Ms room
  • WiFi (and here)
  • Alumni Dublinenses 1593-1860
    • first edn 1924
    • later edn 1935

• UCD - library of University College Dublin (UCD)
  • web catalog
  • Archives Dept

• DCU - library of Dublin City University (DCU)
  • web catalog
  • library of St.Patrick's College, Drumcondra
  • Online databases that DCU is subscibed to.
    • JSTOR
    • Film Index International
    • Oxford Journals
    • DNB

Professions

• RCSI - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• RCPI - Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
• Medical abbreviations

• Medical Directory
  • Medical Directory for Ireland, 1852
  • The Medical Directory 1898

• King's Inns, Dublin
  • admission papers 1607-1867, pub 1982, [NAI] RR

Church

• RCB - library of Representative Church Body, Churchtown, Dublin 14.

• Maynooth seminary
  • ordinations index 1795-1895, pub 1982, [NLI] Ir 37841 h15

• Glenstal Abbey, Co.Limerick
  • library
  • school

• Glasnevin Cemetery (and here), Dublin.

• Catholic Directory
  • Catholic Directory, 1836
  • Catholic Directory, 1837

Other

• RDS - library of Royal Dublin Society
• RIA - Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
• RSAI - Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (see here, previously Royal Historical and Archaeological Association, previously the old Kilkenny Archaeological Society)
• IAA - library of Irish Architectural Archive, Merrion Square, Dublin
• IGS - Irish Georgian Society, Merrion Square, Dublin

• Irish genealogical journals
  • The Irish Ancestor, [RDS] RR (temporary)
• Irish Archaeol. and Hist. Journals

NI

• PRO.NI - Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast
• GRO.NI - General Register Office, Belfast

UK

• thegenealogist.co.uk
  • BMDindex.co.uk

• origins.net (or via here or here)
  • englishorigins.com

• findmypast.com (or via here or here)
  • 1881 census transcripts are free (no images).

• familyrelatives.com (or via here)
• familyhistoryonline.net
• originsuk.com

  
  

• BL - British Library, St Pancras (see map)     [COPYRIGHT LIBRARY]
  • Manuscripts
    • Index of Manuscripts, [NLI] GO RR
  • BM - British Museum
  • locations
  • catalog
    • manuscripts catalog

• NL - Newspaper Library, Colindale (see map)
  • newspapers catalog
  • samples online

  
  

• PRO.UK - National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew (see map)
  • locations
  • Access to Archives (moving to here)
  • UK census

  • ARCHON - Archives Online - Record Repositories in UK and Ireland
    • Ireland

  • Documents Online
    • PCC - Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills online

  • NRA - National Register of Archives
    • browse archives by surname

• UK archives
  • HMC - Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts

  
  

• GRO.UK - General Register Office, London
  • familyrecords.gov.uk
  • bmdregisters.co.uk
  • FRC - The BMD records are now at Family Records Centre, 1 Myddelton St (see map)
  • fully indexed in [LDS.UK] and these locations
  • order online
  • free project to put index online (or via here)
  • List of UK Poor Law Unions

  
  

• LR.UK - HM Land Registry
  • all current title deeds will be put online

• COA - College of Arms, Queen Victoria St, London (see map and here)

• NG - National Gallery, London (see map)
• NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London (see map)
  • Sitters A-Z

• Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Swansea

• local archives

• Corporation of London
  • Guildhall Library, The Guildhall, Aldermanbury, London (see map)
    • Online archive of images from the library.
  • LMA - London Metropolitan Archives (or via here), 40 Northampton Road (near the Guildhall, see map and map)
    • London Generations (Anglican par records, not online)

• WCL - Watford Central Library

Military

• UK military
  • World military ranks (and here)
  • Summary of British Army, Royal Navy and RAF ranks
  • British Army ranks (and here)
  • Royal Navy ranks (and here)
  • RAF ranks (and here)

• British Army
  • list of regiments
  • CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• British Army WWI Records are going online at ancestry.co.uk
  • British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
  • British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
  • Irish soldiers in WWI

• Royal Navy
  • Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth
  • library of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (see map)
    • contact details
    • web catalog

Education

• CUL - library of Cambridge University     [COPYRIGHT LIBRARY]
  • guides and opening hours
  • combined web catalog
  • telnet catalog
  • alumni, pub 1922 and 1940

• OU - Bodleian Library of University of Oxford     [COPYRIGHT LIBRARY]
  • combined web catalog
  • alumni, pub 1886 and 1968

Other

• SOG - library of Society of Genealogists, Charterhouse Buildings (Barbican tube), London (see map)
  • advice leaflets
  • The Genealogist, [SOG] PER/GEN, [TCD] Research Area, Alcove 17, also available on microfilm from Primary Source Microfilm.
  • The Genealogists' Magazine, [NLI] 9292 g 1, [TCD] PER 83-886

• IGRS - Irish Genealogical Research Society
  • library, formerly at Irish Club, 82 Eaton Square, London (see map)
  • The Irish Genealogist, [KCL] RR, [RDS] RR (temporary)

• Federation of Family History Societies
  • National Burial Index (burial records for England and Wales on CDROM)

• Genes Reunited

Scotland

• scotsorigins.com

• GRO.Scot - General Register Office, Edinburgh (and here)
  • fully indexed in [LDS.UK]
  • online (pay-per-view) at scotlandspeople.gov.uk which has:
    • all pre-20th cent. GRO records
    • all pre-20th cent. parish records
    • 1881 and 1891 census

• PRO.Scot - National Archives of Scotland (Scottish Record Office), Edinburgh

• Scottish Archive Network (plan to put records online)

• NLS - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh     [COPYRIGHT LIBRARY]
  • opening hours
  • web catalog

• ECL - Edinburgh Central Library (and here)
  • see also here and here

• ACL - Aberdeen Central Library (and here)
  • Aberdeen City Archives (and here)

• EUL - library of Edinburgh University
  • combined web catalog
  • telnet catalog

US

• LOC - Library of Congress, Washington, DC

• NA.US - National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC

• US Census (see official site and dates)
  • online

• U.S. military records
  • WWI Civilian Draft Registrations at ancestry.com

• Ellis Island (and here and here), New York City Harbour
  • passenger records online (or via here, and direct to new search)
  • passenger search, ship's manifest, ship picture
  • passenger lists
  • ancestorsonboard.com

• NEHGS - New England Historic Genealogical Society (and old site)
  • publications
  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

World

• LDS - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormons)
  • familysearch.org
    • search
  • Explanation of:
    • Ancestral File
    • IGI
  • Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • LDS centres
  • LDS centres in UK and Ireland
    • Dublin - Finglas Rd, Glasnevin
    • Limerick - Doradoyle Rd
    • Belfast - Hollywood Rd
    • London - Exhibition Rd, South Kensington - has entire indexed Scottish par records on computer
    • Edinburgh - Colinton Rd
    • Aberdeen - North Anderson Drive

• The Generations Network
  • ancestry.com
    • Ancestry World Tree
    • OneWorldTree
  • ancestry.co.uk
    • has UK census records pay-to-view
  • genealogy.com

Reference

Sources on CD-ROM

• Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore
• UK (and here and here and here)

• Archive CD Books
  • UK
  • Ireland

• Ireland
  • Eneclann

Encyclopedia

• EB - Encyclopaedia Britannica and in and online (pay to view)
  • 1911 edn online (free)
  • 14th edn, 1929-73.
  • 15th edn, 1974 to date, RR in all libraries.

• Encyclopedias
• Spartacus Educational (and direct in), an online Encyclopedia of British History, by John Simkin.

Biography

• DNB - Dictionary of National Biography (and here), RR everywhere

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary.

• A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Henry Boylan
  • 2nd edn, 1988
  • 1998 edn
• 100 Irish Lives, Martin Wallace, London, 1983.
• Louis McRedmond (ed), Modern Irish Lives: Dictionary of 20th-century Biography, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1996.
  • available online
• A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers, Anne M.Brady and Brian Cleeve, 1985.

State

• censusfinder.com
  • Ireland

• Tithe Applotment Survey, 1823-32, [NAI]
  • online at ancestry.co.uk

• A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Samuel Lewis, 1837, [NLI], [NAI], facsimile pub 1995
  • online
  • online
  • county maps
  • Co.Cork entries online here
  • Co.Tipperary entries online here
  • Co.Kildare section
  • Co.Tipperary subscribers

• Griffith's Valuation, 1848-64
  • online
  • online at ancestry.co.uk
  • Co.Clare data
  • Barony of Owneybeg, Co.Limerick, Dec 1850.

• Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (also here)
  • based on census of 1851, repub 1986.
  • later one based on census of 1901.

• Owners of Land in Ireland, Local Government Board, 1876
  • online
  • Co.Tipperary data

Census of Ireland

• Summary:
  • 19th cent. ones for Ireland (not for Britain) are lost or partial
  • surviving: 1901, 1911
  • Census 1901 and 1911 to come online.
  • Dublin 1911 online
  • next one to be public will be 1926 census in 2026

• 1851 Dublin City Census (between the canals only)
  • It's great they've digitised this, but the CD is impossible to use.
  • Why not just issue the material as simple PDF files we can browse?

• Irish census
• UK census, 1901
  • Co.Clare
• Census of Ireland, 1911

UK Census

• Summary (and here)
  • 1841 census is first to include names of people.
  • public: up to 1901
  • next one to be public will be 1911 census in 2011
• UK Census online
  • 1841 to 1901 census returns now all online

Directories

• celticcousins.net

• Annual Register, [NLI] RR 909

Irish directories

• Treble Almanack & Dublin Directory 1783
• The Treble Almanac 1812
• The Treble Almanac 1818
• The Treble Almanac 1822
• Pigot's Provincial Directory of Ireland 1824
• The Treble Almanac 1829
• The Dublin Almanac & General Register of Ireland 1836
• Shearman's Directory of Waterford, Kilkenny & the southeast 1839
• Pettigrew & Oulton, Dublin Almanac & General Register of Ireland (1845)
• Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland 1846
• Shaw's Dublin City Directory 1850 (and here)
• Henry & Coughlan's General Directory of Cork & Munster, 1867
• Slater's Commercial Directory of Ireland, 1881
• Bassett's Directory of Co.Tipperary 1889
• Ashe's Limerick and Clare Directory 1891-92
• Guy's Directory of Munster 1893
• Slater's Royal National Directory of Ireland, 1894
• Ulster Towns Directory, 1910
• Guy's Limerick Directory, 1912
• Porter's Guide and Directory for North County Dublin 1912
• Guy's Postal Directory 1914 for County Cork
• Kenny's Irish manufacturers' directory, 1919

  
  

• Thom's Directory, [NAI] RR, some in [GO] RR, full set in [RDS] RR (temporary)
  • Co.Kildare entries, 1849 and 1854
  • Dublin Street Directory in Thom's 1862
  • County Directories in Thom's 1862
  • 1877 edn
  • 1879 edn
  • 1884 edn

UK directories

• Pigot's Directory for Kent, Surrey and Sussex, 1839.

Newspapers and Periodicals

• Google news historical search
  • try up to 1758
  • 1759 on

Ireland

• Irish newspapers in the [BL.NL]

• Irish Times
  • Irish newspapers
  • Irish Times archive online since 1859

• Irish Newspaper Archives
  • Freemans Journal 1763 to 1924
  • pay to view - free search - 50 cent or less for each image
  • boolean search

• Nick Reddan (or via here)
  • Newspaper Abstracts (or via here) from various Irish newspapers from 1763 to 1830

• Irish newspaper abstracts
• Cork Examiner obituaries 1843 on (see here)
• newspaperabstracts.com
  • Ireland

• indexes of newspapers
• index of the Freeman's Journal, Dublin, 1763-71, [BL.NL] microfilm RR
• index of the Hibernian Chronicle, Cork, 1769-75, index by the [SOG], [BL.NL] RR

• Rosemary ffolliott
  • Biographical notices in Cork, Kerry newspapers, 1756 to 1827, indexed, by Rosemary ffolliott, [NLI] microfilm P.8154, [BL.NL] microfilm RR
  • Biographical notices in Limerick, Ennis, Clonmel, Waterford newspapers, 1758 to 1821, indexed, by Rosemary ffolliott, this may be in [UCD]

• O'Kief, Coshe Mang and Slieve Luachra (see here), Albert Casey, 1952-71, [KCL] RR (vols 1-15 plus index), [NAI] RR (vols 2-15), [NLI] Ir 94145 c 12, [NLS] NE.53.h (vol.6 only)
  • BMD for Cork, Kerry, Limerick, etc., from newspapers, indexed:
    • 1749 to 1872, in vol.11
    • 1781 to 1821, in vol.8
    • 1828 to 1864, in vol.6
  • Ardfert, Ballymacelligot, Tralee gravestone inscriptions, indexed in [O'Kief] vol.8
  • Apparently also has transcribed par records from Killarney area.
  • [King] indexed in vol.6

• John Hayes - various indices online.
• libraryireland.com
  • contents

UK

• UK newspapers in the [BL.NL]
  • some online

• The Times archive online since 1785

• newspaperabstracts.com
  • England
  • Scotland

• Guardian and Observer archive online since 1821 (eventually will be since 1791)
• The London Gazette and The Edinburgh Gazette and The Belfast Gazette
  • online
• The Penny Illustrated Paper
  • online

Reference - Local History

Heritage Centres and Local Libraries

• Ask About Ireland
  • Irish Local Libraries and Museums (some putting material online here)

• irishroots.net
• Irish Heritage Centres (and here)
• Irish Ancestral Research Association
  • survey of the Heritage Centres

• Irish resources
• Irish Counties resources (and here)
• Local Ireland
  • nice clickable map

• The Library Council
  • Irish local libraries (and by map)
• Familia (family history resources in public libraries in UK and Ireland)
  • Irish libraries

• bibliography of Irish parish histories (and here)

Aberdeenshire

• GENUKI - Aberdeenshire
  • Aberdeen par

• Aberdeen FHS - Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society
  • library, King St, Aberdeen

Co.Clare

• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Clare
• Resources and heritage centres
• Co.Clare BMD project
• Co.Clare data
• Clare County Library
  • Genealogy

• Works
  • Houses of Clare, Hugh W.L. Weir, Ballinakella Press, Whitegate, Co.Clare, 1986.

Co.Dublin

• Resources and heritage centres
• Co.Dublin
• GENUKI - Co.Dublin
• History of Dublin

• street map of Dublin (and here and here and here)
• map of Dublin 1888
• street maps of Dublin c.1904 and today
• Dublin architectural history (and here)
• Street names of Dublin
• Dublin street finder from [Thom's, 1888].

• Dublin RC parishes
• Dublin pubs
• list of Dublin buildings and their architects
• Dublin castles
• timeline

• Dublin Corporation
  • archives
  • Dublin City Libraries (and here)
    • Dublin Heritage Group
• Dublin City Council
  • Dublin City Council traffic cameras

• Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
• Fingal County Council
  • archives
  • Fingal County Libraries
    • local history
    • web catalog
• South Dublin Images
• South Dublin County History

• Chapters of Dublin History by Ken Finlay
  • online books
  • gallery
  • Dublin Day by Day: 365 Days of Dublin History by Ken Finlay

• Works
  • Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, pre-1903.
  • A History of the County Dublin, Francis Elrington Ball, 6 vols, 1902-20, repub 1995.
  • Fair Fingall, Patrick Archer, written pre-1949, pub by An Taisce Fingall, 1975, repub with new illustrations post-1990.
  • Fingal, 1603-60: contending neighbours in North Dublin, Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha, 2005.

  • Encyclopaedia of Dublin, Douglas Bennett, 1991.
  • Between the Mountains and the Sea, Peter Pearson, O'Brien Press, 1998. See interview.
  • Dublin - A Grand Tour, Jacqueline O'Brien with Desmond Guinness, 1994.
  • Dublin: A Celebration, Pat Liddy, 2000, pub by Dublin Corporation.
  • Dundrum, Stillorgan and Rathfarnham: Gateway to the mountains, Christopher Ryan, Cottage Publications
  • The Rivers of Dublin, Clair L. Sweeney, 1991.
  • Dublin's Heritage of Pubs (booklet), Peter Walsh, Guinness Museum, 1988.

Co.Kerry

• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Kerry
  • towns and parishes

• Co.Kerry
• Co.Kerry
• Tralee
• Tralee street names

• Co.Kerry BMD project
• Co.Kerry genealogy
  • site map
  • Co.Kerry townlands
  • Tralee Protestant baptisms
• Co.Kerry marriages

  
  

• Resources and heritage centres
  • KCL - Kerry County Library, Tralee (or via here, see map of Tralee)
    • local history and archives
    • newspapers
    • web catalog
    • branches in Co.Kerry (or here or here)

  • KAHS - Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, based at KCL
    • Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, [KCL] RR
      • index to nos. 1-29 is in no.30, 1997, [KCL] RR
    • Kerry Archaeological Magazine, [KCL] RR
    • The Kerry Magazine (mid-19th cent), [KCL] RR
      • index, [KCL] RR 941.96
    • The Kerry Magazine (modern), [KCL] RR

  • KCM - Kerry County Museum, Tralee (or here)
  • Kerry Genealogical Society, Tralee
  • Killarney Library
  • Irish Emigration Research Project, in Blennerville
    • think this was formerly the Kerry Genealogical Project, Blennerville

• Co.Kerry parish records
  • Killarney Genealogical Centre, Cathedral Walk, Killarney (end of the lane beside Cathedral, on LHS). Not yet open.
  • Kerry Diocesan Archives, Bishop's House, Killarney (beside Cathedral), (064) 31168.
  • The Presbytery, Killarney, (064) 31014.

  
  

• Mary Agnes Hickson
  • Selections from Old Kerry Records, Vol.1 1872, Vol.2 1874, [NLI] Ir 94146 h 1, [KCL] 941.96
    • Vol.1 1872 online. Entire file (warning - 46 M):
    • index is in [KCL] RR
    • whole thing copied (and indexed) in [O'Kief, vol.5]
    • Vol.1 has historical list of High Sheriffs of Co.Kerry

  • Tralee Protestant Parish Registers 1771-1816, annotated by Hickson
    • Kerry Evening Post, June-Oct 1880, [Nash]
    • Kerry Evening Post, Mar-Sept 1909
  • Ireland in the 17th Century, 1884.
  • Index of persons in Ireland in the 17th century, [SOG] IR/G 53A

  
  

• Other works
  • The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry, Charles Smith, 1756.
  • Kerry Genealogies by Rev. Arthur Blennerhassett Rowan, 1846, [NLI] microfilm POS 2786
  • The "Nash Newspaper Cuttings Collection for Co.Kerry", [SOG] IR/L 51, and also [LDS] microfilm 0477616.
  • Cusack's History of the Kingdom of Kerry, 1871
  • History of Kerry by Jeremiah King
    • 1st edn, 6 parts, 1907-12, [NLI] Ir 94146 k2
    • 2nd edn, c.1912-, [NLI] think pamphlets P 2267
    • 3rd edn, County Kerry, past and present, 1931, [NLI] Ir 94146 k3,
      fully reproduced and indexed in [O'Kief] vol.6,
      repub 1986, Mercier Press, ISBN 0-85342-798-4
  • Sir Henry Denny, 7th Baronet
    • A handbook of County Kerry Family History, Biography, Etc, published by the Archaeological Group of "The County Kerry Society" 1923, [NLI] Ir 9291 d 1
    • Kerry families, original manuscript, [SOG] IR/L 49
  • The Co.Kerry Society annual reports 1922-40, [KCL] 941.96

  • Listowel and its vicinity, J.Anthony Gaughan, 1973
    • 2nd edn, Cork, 1974, [RDS] I 941.96
  • Tralee: A Historical Guide, Michael O'Dwyer, post-1978, [KCL] 941.96
  • Short History and Guide to Tralee and its Environs, Russell Mc Morran, 1980, [KCL] 941.96
  • Houses of Kerry, Valerie Bary, 1994, [DCU] REF 728.

  • Tralee Miscellany, [KCL] RR, vols 1-5
    • There are two vol.4's. Same material, in two different orders.

Co.Limerick

• Co.Limerick
• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Limerick
• Resources and heritage centres

• Limerick City Council (or via here or here)
  • Limerick City Trades Register 1769-1925
• LCL - Limerick City Library
  • Material online (and in)

• from-ireland.net
  • Limerick
• Co.Limerick BMD project
• RC Diocese of Limerick
  • Catholic parishes of Co.Limerick

• limerick.com
• street map of Limerick
• Co.Limerick data
• Co.Limerick data

• The Theatre Royal
  • If Walls Could Talk - The Limerick Athenaeum, The story of an Irish Theatre since 1852, by James A. McMahon and Seamus Flynn, 1996.

• Works
  • Remembering Limerick: Historical Essays Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Limerick's First Charter, edited by David Lee, 1997.

Co.Tipperary

• Co.Tipperary
• GENUKI - Ireland
  • Co.Tipperary
• Resources and heritage centres
• North Tipperary County Council
• South Tipperary County Council

• Co.Tipperary BMD project
• Co.Tipperary libraries
• Co.Tipperary Historical Society (see also here)

• Co.Tipperary records
• Co.Tipperary genealogy
  • List of Freeholders of Co.Tipperary 1776
• Co.Tipperary voters 1838 and 1839
• tipp.ie
• tipperary.com
• tourism

Co.Westmeath

• map of Co.Westmeath parishes
• map of Co.Westmeath baronies

Houses

• Guide to the National Monuments of Ireland, Peter Harbison, 1970.

• Beranger's Antique Buildings of Ireland, ed. Peter Harbison, Four Courts Press, 1998 (reproduces the 18th cent. prints of [NLI] Ms 1958 TX).
• Cooper's Ireland, Peter Harbison, 2000.

• Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Ireland, 1794.
  • Co.Kildare section
• Daniel Grose, The Antiquities of Ireland: A Supplement to Francis Grose, ed. Roger Stalley, 1991.

• A guide to Irish country houses, Mark Bence-Jones, 1988. This was previously Burke's guide to country houses, 1978.
• "The Lesser Castles of the County Dublin", E.R.M. Dix, The Irish Builder, 1897 (think [NLI] microfiche IR 69405 i 42)
• In Ruins: The Once Great Houses of Ireland, Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren, 1980, revised 1997.
• Irish Castles, David Pritchard and Liam Blake, 1993.

Reference - Family History

Burke's Peerage and Gentry

• Burke's Peerage
• The old Burke's Peerage Ltd have gone out of business.

• "Burke's Peerage and Gentry" are their rightful successor - the ones who are producing new editions of the works.
  • burkes-peerage.net
    • material online
    • site map
    • abbreviations
    • login
    • search

• Not to be confused with:
  1. Not to be confused with the Harold Brooks-Baker organisation:
     • Formerly at burkes-peerage.com
     • burkestitles.com
     • See discussion here and here.
     • And more discussion here and here and here and here.
  2. burkes-peerage.com has now been taken, bizarrely, by "The Scottish Baronies of Fulwood and Dirleton".

• Burke's Family Index, 1976, ISBN 0-85011-022-X, [NLI] 9292 b 20, [GO] RR, [RDS] REF 929.9, [TCD] REF 929.7 L6, [KCL] RR 929.4, [ECL] CS 25 (76-58135-01, normally RR), [NLS] 929/2 Biog.D.26.1.B, [WCL] RR
• Burke's Authorised Arms, 1971, is reprint of Burke's Selection of Arms, 1858-60, 1863.

Royal

• Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, 1st edn, 1973, ISBN 0-220-66222-3, [CUL] R493.11, [WCL] RR
• Royal Highness: Ancestry of the Royal Child, Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982.

• Roderick W. Stuart
  • Royalty for Commoners, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 3rd edn, 1998, [SOG] P/R/GEN.
  • This has ancestry of John of Gaunt, including Armenian and Egyptian Royal line.

• Melville Henry Massue, 9th Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval
  • The Blood Royal of Britain, 1903-11, repub 1994, [CUL] R493.12, [ECL] WCS 418 (RR). These volumes list all descendants of Edward IV and Henry VII and James III, King of Scotland and Edward III.
  • Titled Nobility of Europe, 1914, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91.

Royal Descents

• Burke's Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales
  • 1st edn, 1847-51, [CUL] R493.10
  • 2nd edn, 1876, [CUL] Z496.b.87.1
  • indexed in - Index to Family Names appearing in Burke's Royal Families, A.G.C.Fane, 1932, [CUL] R493.10

• Burke's Royal descents and pedigrees
  • 1855-8 edn, [CUL] Oo.14.17
  • 1864 edn, [ECL] CS 418 B86 (4431)

• Foster's Royal Descents
  • Our Noble and Gentle Families of Royal Descent, Joseph Foster
    • 1883 edn, [SOG] P/R
    • 1885 edn, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91
  • The Royal Lineage of Our Noble And Gentle Families, Joseph Foster, London, 1887, [NLI] 92972 f 1
  • Many of Foster's papers are now in the [CUL].

Peerage

• Debrett's Peerage (and here)
  • 4th edn, 1790, 3 vols, vol.2 only is on the web:
    • Viscounts, Barons, 1790
    • extinct Dukes, Marquises and Earls and Viscounts and Barons, 1790
  • 1825 edn
  • 1923 edn
  • 1976 edn, [RDS] REF 929.2
  • 1995 edn, [ECL] CS 421 (RR)

• Burke's Peerage, [CUL] L496.b.8.1, [NLI] 929721 b 16
  • 1849 edn
  • 1881 edn
  • 1885 edn
  • 1938 edn, [ECL] CS 421 (K81059)
  • 104th edn, 1967, [CUL] L496.b.8.105
  • 105th edn, 1970 (and subsequent reprints), [NLI] formerly RR 92972 B 13, [GO] RR, [RDS] REF 929.7, [ECL] WCS 421 (RR), [CUL] Ref.23.10 (else L496.b.8.109)
  • 106th edn, 1999, [NLI] RR 92972 B 13, [NLI] GO RR, [RDS] RR, [DCU] REF 929.72, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91
  • 107th edn (latest), 2004
    • online at burkes-peerage.net (pay-to-view)

• Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Joseph Foster
  • 1st edn, 1880, [NLI] 929721 f 2
  • 2nd edn, 1881.
  • Many of Foster's papers are now in the [CUL].

• The Scots Peerage, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91, [ECL] W X CS 421 (Scottish RR)

• Burke's Extinct Peerage and Baronetage
  • Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages
    • latest edn 1883 (and subsequent reprints), [NLI] RR 92972, [CUL] R493.35, [RDS] REF 929.7202, [ECL] CS 422 (RR), [WCL] RR
  • Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetage
    • latest edn 1841 (and subsequent reprints), [GO] RR, [RDS] RR, [ECL] CS 424 (22701), [WCL] RR

  • Burke's Knightage, 1841 [think only contemporary Knights, not all-time list]
  • New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971, Leslie G. Pine, 1972.

• Cokayne's Complete Peerage and Baronetage
  • The Complete Peerage (extant, extinct or dormant), George E. Cokayne and other authors and editors
    • 1st edn, 8 vols, 1887-98
    • 2nd edn, 12 vols, 1910-59, [NLI] RR, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91, [CUL] R493.30, [ECL] CS 421 (RR)
    • repub in photo-reduced size, 6 vols, by Alan Sutton Pub Ltd, 1982, hardback ISBN 0-904387-82-8, paper bound ISBN 0-86299-442-X, and by St Martin Ltd, 1984, ISBN 0-312-15836-X, [GO] RR
  • The Complete Baronetage, George E. Cokayne, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91, [SOG] P/R/LST

• Collins' Peerage of England
  • 1741-50 edn

• Peerages of England Scotland & Ireland, 1790
• The Peerage of the British Empire - Lodge 1839
• Cracroft's Peerage, 2000.

Families

• Burke's Landed Gentry, [NLI] 929725
  • 1836 or 1838 edn
  • 1849 edn
  • 1862 edn
  • 1879 edn
    • contents
  • 1882 edn, [ECL] CS 425 (T68548-49)
  • 1894 edn, [RDS] RR
  • 1898 edn, [RDS] REF 929.72
  • 15th edn, 1937, [ECL] CS 425 (K47911)
  • 1952 edn, [ECL] WCS 425 (T41757)
  • 18th edn, 1965-72, [NLI] RR 929725, [RDS] RR REF 929.72, [TCD] REF 929.7, [ECL] WCS 425 (3 vols - 67309H, 78049N, 29856X), [WCL] RR
    • online at burkes-peerage.net (pay-to-view)
  • 19th edn (latest)
    • vol.1, [Burke's LG Scotland, 2001]
    • vol.2, [Burke's LG Ireland, 2002]

• Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland
  • Burke's Landed Gentry Scotland, 2001, [TCD] REF 929.7 A8
    • this is vol.1 of [Burkes LG, 19th edn]
    • online at burkes-peerage.net (pay-to-view)

  
  

• Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland
  • 1899 edn is reprint of Irish supplement of [Burkes LG, 1898]
    • On CD:

  • 1904 edn, [NLI] Ir 929725, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91, [ECL] RR CS 490
  • 1912 edn, [NLI] Ir 929725 b3, [TCD] REF 929.7 C92

  • Irish supplement of [Burkes LG, 1937]
    • repub as "Burke's Landed Gentry Ireland, 2002", vol.2 of [Burkes LG, 19th edn]
    • online at burkes-peerage.net (pay-to-view)

  • 1958 edn (and here), [DCU] REF 929.72, [NLI] Ir RR 929725 b, [GO] RR, [KCL] RR, [ECL] WCS 490 (73905B), [NLS] 929.72 H5.77.24

  • Burke's Irish Family Records, 1976, [NLI] RR Ir 9292 b 36, [GO] RR, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91, [Dundrum Library] REF 929.72, [KCL] RR 929.4, [CUL] Ref.23.35 (else L496.b.17.5), [NLS] 929/2/09415 Biog.D.26.2.B3.
    • repub 2007 by burkes-peerage.net on paper and CD:

  
  

• Burke's Prominent Families of the USA
• Burke's Colonial Gentry
  • vol.1, 1891
  • vol.2, 1895, [ECL] CS 432 C7 (RR)

• John O'Hart
  • Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, 1884, repub 1969, [Dundrum Library] REF 929.2.
  • Irish Pedigrees
    • 1888 edn
    • 5th edn, 1892
      • online
      • repub 1976, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore
      • repub 1989, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, [TCD] Research Area, Stall 91
    • edn pub New York, Murphy and McCarthy, 1923

Presidential and American

• Gary Boyd Roberts
  • The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, 1993.
  • Ancestors of American Presidents, 1995.
  • Notable Kin, Vol.1, 1998.
  • Notable Kin, Vol.2, 1999.
  • The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, 2004.
  • his website
  • his columns in NEHGS

• David Faris
  • Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth Century Colonists, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1996, ISBN 0-8063-1518-0
• Frederick L. Weis
  • The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 4th edn, 1991, ISBN 0-8063-1305-6, [CUL] 9001.c.6412
  • Ancestral roots of sixty colonists, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore,
    5th edn, ISBN 0-8063-0373-5
    7th edn, 1992, [CUL] 9002.c.402

• Burke's Presidential Families of the USA
  • 1st edn, 1975, ISBN 0-85011-017-3, [NLI] RR 920073, [CUL] try 496.5.b.95.4 or R494.89, [NLS] 973/0992 H4.83.1141
  • 2nd edn, 1981, [NLS] 973/09/92 Biog.D.13.55.B4
• American Presidential Families, Hugh Brogan and Charles Mosley, Morris Genealogical Books, 1993, ISBN 0-7509-0582-4, [CUL] R494.89

• The Presidents: Their Lives, Families and Great Decisions, articles from the Saturday Evening Post , Funk and Wagnalls company (NY) Special Edition, pub by Curtis Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Editions in 1980, 1981, 1989, 1993.

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