Collins Tracing Your Irish Family History

Collins Tracing Your Irish Family History
Ryan Tubridy

Anthony Adolph

FOREWORD BY RYAN TUBRIDYThe authoritative and comprehensive guide to tracing your Irish ancestryThere's never been a better time to trace your Irish family history. Vast internet resources and DNA testing, as well as access to censuses, religious records and other archive material make this process easier than ever.Anthony Adolph gives you a wide range of tools and information to discover your Irish ancestry. The text is packed with weblinks to enable you to search the great number of records now available online, as well as providing contact information on other sources, such as archives and libraries. He explains how to trace family in Ireland, starting from various countries around the world (including Ireland itself of course), as well as looking at surnames, heraldry, families of non-Irish origin, and poignant stories of migration from Ireland. By reading this book you'll also be drawn into the lives your ancestors led, through the examples, compelling stories and fascinating social history which are interwoven within the text.This is the complete resource for discovering your Irish family history, and as a result, learning more about who you are and where you come from.

Collins Tracing your Irish family history

Anthony Adolph

To Ann Lavelle, for Extraordinary Ancestors and everything else that followed as a consequence – and whose surname, incidentally, speaks eloquently of her family roots in Co. Mayo.

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u076e4ee6-8ffa-5a67-bbc6-9c123bf3fffd)

Title Page (#ua4f9a504-4e40-5704-a2b0-f7e2a148d9e5)

Dedication (#u6a1d97af-53cf-5aa8-b000-2b63c58f8d6b)

Foreword (#u18874ad8-e365-580a-8150-b90de6f88ef1)

How to use this book (#ue230f1f9-5f36-560e-8fe3-ba1dd9efb599)

PART 1 Tracing Back to Ireland: First Steps (#u76b63a1e-4a34-5f8c-9757-3e33e0a1d20c)

CHAPTER 1 First Find Your Immigrant (#udffc00e1-1d44-5ab0-b97a-58ecf1047bf0)

CHAPTER 2 Using and Storing Records (#ud0a9d47a-7687-52af-8218-19548f341a83)

PART 2 Tracing Back to Ireland: Country by Country (#ue914e514-a4e2-5bfc-aa31-f7ba4fb645bd)

CHAPTER 3 England and Wales (#u92fa3806-5e56-59c3-a201-aaf8b6054faa)

CHAPTER 4 Scotland (#ubbf388c4-0bac-5648-9293-34a555ea93c2)

CHAPTER 5 United States of America (#uddeffd89-b62e-5542-bf05-398b04a65ef8)

CHAPTER 6 Canada (#u3c13e15c-88e4-5c1d-8aa0-2d168ca9fe16)

CHAPTER 7 Argentina (#u2723d460-454e-5caf-8b09-c081cd9f72d0)

CHAPTER 8 Australia (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 9 New Zealand (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 3 Tracing Your Roots in Ireland (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 10 Introducing Ireland (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 11 The Divisions of Ireland (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 12 Griffith’s Valuation and Tithe Applotments (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 13 Civil Registration (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 14 Censuses (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 15 Religious Registers (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 16 Occupational Records (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 17 Dictionary of Irish Sources (#litres_trial_promo)

PART 4 Tracing Ancient Irish Roots (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 18 Irish Names (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 19 Recorded Pedigrees (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 20 Heraldry (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 21 Milesius was Your Ancestor (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 22 Ancient Irish Roots (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 23 The Invasions of Ireland (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 24 Modern Chieftains (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 25 Genetics (#litres_trial_promo)

Useful Addresses (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Foreword (#ulink_7a90b442-4538-5523-a922-894841f9b063)

Recently, I interviewed an Irish economist who was explaining the phenomenal impact of the Irish in Britain. From Lennon/McCartney to Wayne Rooney and even Tony Blair, the Irish strain has always produced second and third generation performers. In London, some of the major landmark buildings are being snapped up by men who started life making tea on building sites off Regent Street. So, is this reverse-colonisation or just the natural upshot of an emigration-prone nation?

In America, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy helped not only to put the emigrant Irish on the map but also to take them out of the ‘no dogs, no blacks, no Irish’ generation. Ever since, nearly every American president has found some class of connection to this small but beautiful island. As I write, Senator Hillary Clinton continues to parade her Irish roots and Barack Obama has claimed a bloodline to Co. Offaly.

How times have changed in Ireland. There have always been Irish sons and daughters on the move in search of better times, but the great ‘brain drain’ that characterised generation after generation of migrants from the Famine to the dark economic days of the 1980s has now halted, thanks to the welcome appearance of peace in the 1990s. A new prosperity has stopped Irishmen and women leaving and brought many of them home to an emotional reunion with families who had expected empty places at the dinner table forever.