Tag Archives: Public Record Office of Ireland

Archives around the world join forces to bring Ireland’s destroyed Public Record Office back to life

If you’ve researched your Irish ancestors, you likely know that when the Public Record Office of Ireland was reduced to rubble and ashes in the Irish civil war 100 years ago, seven centuries of historical documents — including census records — were … Continue reading

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PRONI on YouTube — Street directories

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has posted an eight-minute video on its YouTube channel to demonstrate how to search its online collection of street directories.

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This week’s crème de la crème — September 5, 2020

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsChinese Immigration Act Case Files: Finding aids at LAC by Linda Yip on Past Presence. Japanese Canadian internment: Over 40,000 pages and 180 photographs digitized by the DigiLab by Gabrielle Nishiguchi on Library … Continue reading

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Irish ancestors? Short attention span? PRONI’s short how-to YouTube videos fit the bill

If your ancestors came from Ireland and your attention span is limited to about six minutes of learning — which is not unusual during the pandemic — the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has produced a series of … Continue reading

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Irish prime minister announces funding to recreate records lost in civil war fire in 1922

Almost every genealogist with Irish ancestors eventually discovers that centuries of the Public Record Office of Ireland’s historical records were destroyed by fire at Dublin’s Four Courts at the beginning of the Irish Civil War on June 30, 1922. It … Continue reading

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