Category Archives: Ireland

New book about the Irish Famine

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Gail Dever

The book, Canada and the Great Irish Famine, was officially launched yesterday at the University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College. Edited by William Jenkins, the book is a series of ten essays written by several well-known Great Irish Famine historians. … Continue reading →

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Free Irish Catholic marriage and death records made available on MyHeritage

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Gail Dever

MyHeritage has added two free Irish collections, Ireland Catholic Parish Deaths and Burials, 1795-1881 and Ireland, Catholic Parish Marriages, 1742-1912, totalling more than 3.5 million records. Both collections are published under the National Library of Ireland’s Terms of Use of … Continue reading →

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‘Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland’ — New book by Chris Paton

Posted on March 30, 2025 by Gail Dever

Crisis situations affected many of our ancestors. If those ancestors lived in Ireland, professional genealogist and popular speaker Chris Paton has written a new book, Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland, where he explains what records were created when a crisis … Continue reading →

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Ireland properties, from 1298 to 1975, on FamilySearch

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Gail Dever

Thanks to Cyndi Ingle and her excellent website, Cyndi’s List, I learned that FamilySearch has a new full-text search collection, called Ireland, Properties, from 1298 to 1975. FamilySearch’s Chief Genealogical Officer David Rencher first shared the news on Facebook. I’d … Continue reading →

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Long-time Irish genealogist Claire Santry honoured

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Gail Dever

The council of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) announced on Friday that Claire Santry was unanimously chosen as the 2024 recipient of the Wallace Clare Award. The award recognizes Ms. Santry’s “dedication to the promotion of Irish genealogy over … Continue reading →

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750,000 new death records for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Findmypast

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Gail Dever

This week, Findmypast has updated three of its existing death record collections as part of its annual update of modern death records. Now covering 1980 to 2024, there are 751,279 death records from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to explore. … Continue reading →

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Landmark research on Irish Civil War fatalities may help family historians with their research

Posted on May 14, 2024 by Gail Dever

New research and a digital mapping project, listing all of the combatant and civilian fatalities in the Irish Civil War, was launched at the end of April. Called The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project, it covers one of the most … Continue reading →

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Shoe sculptures to raise awareness of Irish Famine in Canada

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Gail Dever

A special cargo of bronze famine shoes left Galway, Ireland last night aboard the Marine Institute’s RV Celtic Explorer to cross the Atlantic to Newfoundland. The shoe sculptures, which pay tribute to the millions affected by the devastating famine of … Continue reading →

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Gearing up for the 200th anniversary of the Peter Robinson Settlers

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Gail Dever

Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the Peter Robinson Settlers from the Ballyhoura Region in Ireland establishing a new life in what we now know as Peterborough, Ontario. In Ireland, Ballyhoura Development, which is a local non-profit organization, has … Continue reading →

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Almost one million new Irish records on Findmypast

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Gail Dever

If you have Irish roots, you’ll want to take a look at Findmypast’s 992,000 new records from Ireland. Ireland, 1766 Religious CensusThis week’s biggest new set consists of 20,505 transcriptions from the 1766 Religious Census. Although the original documents were … Continue reading →

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