Family History Research

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General Register Office 0300 200 7890 www.nidirect.gov.uk/family-history Online family history research facility enables you to NISRA search historic records from home for as little as 50p Colby House Births over 100 years, deaths over 50 years and Stanmillis Court marriages over 75 years. You can access all records BELFAST in the Public Search Room – births deaths from 1864 BT9 5RR and Marriages from 1845.

Fermanagh Genealogy 028 6632 5000 [email protected] An appointment for a free half-hour family history Centre consultation can be booked on the following website:

www.enniskillencastle.co.uk based at: (click on ‘explore more’ and then ‘Fermanagh

Genealogy Centre’) Enniskillen Castle Museums

Enniskillen

Co Fermanagh It is also possible to submit an email enquiry. BT74 7HL

Enniskillen Library 028 6632 2886 [email protected] Local public history publications can be viewed which Halls Lane often contain graveyard inscriptions, school roll books Enniskillen going back to c 1870 along with some church BT74 7DR records. Ordnance Survey maps available as well as microfilm of local newspapers going back to the early 1800s.

The Mellon Centre 028 82256315 www.qub.ac.uk/cms Reference only collection which contains material American Folk Park about historic and contemporary immigration Mellon Road including return migration, internal migration and Castletown emigration relating to Ulster, , Britain, Europe Omagh and the wider world. It is particularly strong in Co Tyrone relation to Irish and North American interests in BT78 5QY individuals, families and localities as they relate to

migration history. Also you can access Newspapers, Journals / Periodicals and Maps (Ordnance Survey).

Omagh Library 028 82244821 [email protected] You are able to access Ancestry.com, a Genealogy 1 Spillars Place database, (Library Edition) and browse free of Irishtown Road charge. Other Reference material includes the 1901 Omagh and 1911 census for Co Tyrone (some earlier also Co Tyrone available) Local Newspapers are also available: BT78 1HL Tyrone Constitution from 1844 and from 1902 and Griffith’s valuation maps can also be accessed.

Public Record Office 028 90534800 www.proni.gov.uk The Public Record Office for , 2 Titanic Boulevard PRONI, is the official place of deposit for historical Titanic Quarter public records of Government Departments (formerly Belfast Ministries) and other non-Departmental public BT3 9HQ organisations such as courts, schools and hospitals. In addition, PRONI has collected a wide range of archives from private sources over the years. These range from a single letter written by an ordinary individual to a vast landed estate archive containing thousands of documents. Other privately deposited archives include the records of churches, businesses and a number of photographic collections. PRONI holds millions of documents that relate chiefly, but not exclusively, to Northern Ireland, They date largely from c.1600 to the present day (with a few dating back as far as the early 13th century).