Reverse genealogy

Celtic Connections, Waltham, August 16 2014

World diaspora

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Germany Italy Poland Sweden Norway Ireland

World diaspora compared to current home population

World

At home

US diaspora

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10,000,000

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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