reverse genealogy celtic connections, waltham, august 16 2014
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Reverse genealogy
Celtic Connections, Waltham, August 16 2014
World diaspora
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20,000,000
40,000,000
60,000,000
80,000,000
100,000,000
120,000,000
140,000,000
160,000,000
Germany Italy Poland Sweden Norway Ireland
World diaspora compared to current home population
World
At home
US diaspora
0
10,000,000
20,000,000
30,000,000
40,000,000
50,000,000
60,000,000
70,000,000
80,000,000
90,000,000
Germany Italy Poland Sweden Norway Ireland
US diaspora compared to current home population
America
At home
Tricks and tools
Come forward in Irish records Use parents’ names to flesh out families Find extended families in 1901/1911 Follow changes in Valuation Office revisions Use 20th century death notices and voters’ lists Will Calendars and Probate Continuous runs A precise place
Use overseas records
Rootsireland.ie
Familysearch.org
IrishGenealogy.ie
Valuation Office revision books1854
1863
Valuation Office revision books
1894
Valuation Office revision books
1909
Valuation Office revision books
1922
1946
Valuation Office revision books
1981
Valuation Office revision books
Valuation Office
Irish Life Centre Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1 Republic of Ireland+353-1-817 1000 Open 9.30 am - 12.30 pm, 2 - 4.30 pm, Mon. - Fri.http://www.valoff.ie/
•revision books•Perambulation Books•Maps
PRONI: Revisions to 1933
Online newspapers Irishtimes.com/archive: Irish Times from 1856 Irishnewsarchive.com: Indo stable, Irish Press Britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: to 1922
Heyday, 1940s to 2000s
Death notices
Feb 24 1940
... Independent
... Independent
June 12 1984
Irishnewsarchive.com
Irish Independent , Aug 17 1964
Death notices
Voters’ Lists
Dublin only, for now www.dublinheritage.ie 1898-1916, 1938-
1964
Maps
Valuation maps (askaboutireland.ie) Ordnance survey maps (maps.osi.ie) Contemporary maps (maps.osi.ie) GPS coordinates
(itouchmap.com/latlong.html) Google maps
Non-Irish records
North America UK Australasia
Chain migration
Blaskets => Springfield, Mass. Nth Monaghan => Prince Edward Island Achill => Cleveland Tourmakeady => Chicago Tralee => New Zealand Abbeydorney => Westbury N.Y. Tipperary => Janesville, Ill.???
Janesville, 1929
Published works
Chain migration Often best guide to Irish
origin
Ancestry.com = North America
Censuses Civil records Land records Newspapers And ...
stevemorse.org
UK censuses
FindMyPast.co.uk
Ancestry.co.uk
Scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Censuses every 10 years, 1841 - 1911
UK General Register Office
England and Wales: 1 July 1837 Scotland: 1 January 1855
GRO Registration system
District Registry => Central Copy & Index Four Quarters each year England & Wales:
Indexes online (freebmd.org.uk) Certificates from GRO with index information
Scotland Scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Scottish census 1871
Scottish death
Australasia Much better shipping
records Excellent BMD (most
now online) Convicts (40,000) Assisted New Zealand – later,
voluntary, Ulster
AUSTRALIAN STATES: BMD
New South Wales Victoria
Queensland South Australia
Western Australia Tasmania (offline)
Northern Territory (offline)
For example ...
Michael John Nolan emigrated to Australia in 1910, and died in Queensland some time in the 1970s. What was his mother’s maiden name ?
www.bdm.qld.gov.au
www.bdm.qld.gov.au
Most useful
Australian death records Scottish death records (Some) US marriage records
Try a broad sweep on FamilySearch
Ellisisland.org - advanced
stevemorse.org
stevemorse.org: 946 matches
SS Servia, dep May 1 1901
1901 Census Kilmeen 3
1911 Census Kilmeen 3
Ireland Reaching Out
www.irelandxo.com