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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Record Office of Ireland was reduced to rubble and ashes in the Irish civil war 100 years ago, seven centuries of historical documents — including census records — were … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond 2022, Public Record Office of Ireland, Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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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.
Posted in Ireland
Tagged city directories, directories, PRONI, Public Record Office of Ireland
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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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Tagged aboriginal, African Americans, AncestryDNA, Canada, Chinese Canadians, DNA, family history writing, First Nations, Indigenous, Ireland, Japanese Canadians, PRONI, Public Record Office of Ireland, Saskatchewan, writing
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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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Tagged online learning, PRONI, Public Record Office of Ireland, YouTube
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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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Tagged Beyond 2022, Public Record Office of Ireland
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