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Over these years the Ulster Historical Foundation has developed into one of the principal genealogical research agencies in Ireland and a leading publisher of quality historical, educational and genealogical books. It also operates a membership association called the Ulster Historical and Genealogical Guild, the aim of which is to bring together people from all over the world in their quest to discover Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. The Foundation is one of the few organisations that is actively engaging with family historians in Ireland and North America. Each year we organise a North American lecture tour while members of staff speak at other genealogy events in the United States and Canada. Through our family history conferences we bring genealogists to the archives in Belfast and Dublin and provide hands-on assistance with research. Ulster Historical Foundation is entirely self-funded. We depend on the support of our customers and members to continue to provide the range of services that we currently offer.

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y • Research assistance by professional genealogists

c Travel and accommodation o Please note that travel to and from Northern The Malmaison and Merchant hotels are n Ireland and accommodation are not located in historic buildings and have an

f included in the price, and delegates will excellent reputation but can be expensive. e need to make their own reservations for The Ramada Encore and Premier Inn

r accommodation during the Tracing your would be cheaper options. Alternatively, e Irish Ancestors conferences. There are, you may wish to stay elsewhere in Belfast n however, a number of hotels in Belfast’s or its vicinity. Go to

c historic Cathedral Quarter which would www. discovernorthernireland. com to

e merit consideration. check out accommodation options.

s The Ramada Encore, Belfast will be the Malmaison Belfast pick-up and drop-off point for the

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0 Merchant Hotel Ancestors conferences. Delegates not 1 www. themerchanthotel. com staying at this hotel will be expected to 6 make their own way here to take part in

– Ramada Encore the tours and outings. 1 www. ramada. co. uk/ hotels/ united-

7 kingdom/ belfast/ ramada-encore- belfast- city- centre/ hotel- overview Premier Inn www. premierinn. com/ gb/ en/ hotels/ norther n- ireland/ antrim/ belfast/ belfast- city- cathedral- quarter. html

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 9 Guides and speakers Libraries and archives F a

During the conference you will be Participants at the Tracing your Irish m assisted in your research and enjoy Ancestors conferences will have the

opportunity to visit the following libraries i talks from a range of l acknowledged experts in Irish and archives: y

genealogy, history, migration and Public Record Office of Northern Ireland h archives. They include: The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ( PRONI) in i

Belfast is one of the best regional archives in the UK. It s Fintan Mullan holds centuries of records relating to the province of t

Executive Director of the Ulster Historical Ulster and the families that have lived here. One of the o Foundation and a regular speaker on the main features of PRONI’s collections is the fact that they North American circuit, having given r

cover both public ( i.e. official) and private records. y genealogical lectures in over 30 states and

National Archives of Ireland

provinces. c The National Archives in Dublin holds the records of the

Dr William Roulston modern Irish State which document its historical o Research Director of the Ulster Historical evolution and the creation of its national identity. Their n Foundation and author of Abercorn: The holdings relate to all parts of Ireland and provide Hamiltons of Barons Court and Researching essential primary source material for people seeking to f e Scots-Irish Ancestors . understand the political, economic and social forces which have shaped the Irish Nation. r

Gillian Hunt e Research Officer with the Ulster Historical National Library of Ireland n Foundation and regular presenter and The National Library of Ireland, located on Kildare Street speaker on Irish genealogy across the British in the centre of Dublin, was established by the Dublin c Isles and North America. Science and Art Museum Act, 1877. In addition to its e

Dr Glynn Kelso huge book and newspaper holdings, the National Library s Curatorial Officer at the Public Record Office has an extensive collection of estate papers.

of Northern Ireland and a member of the Registry of Deeds, Dublin 2

Archives and Records Association Learning The Registry of Deeds in Henrietta Street, Dublin, holds 0 and Education Committee. material relating to land transactions from 1708 when it 1 Dr Brian Lambkin opened. It is one of the most valuable sources of 6 Director of the Mellon Centre for Migration ancestral information for the eighteenth century. – Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park and 1 co-author of Migration in Irish History, 7 1607 –2007 . Dr Patrick Fitzgerald Lecturer and Development Officer, Mellon Centre for Migration Studies and co-author of Migration in Irish History, 1607 –2007 .

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies Located in the grounds of the Ulster- American Folk Park, the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies is an accessible and user friendly research library. The Centre houses an extensive collection of materials including 17,000 books, primary source documents, maps, periodicals and the Irish Emigration The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, County Tyrone Database. 10

Research Officer, Gillian Hunt presents a ‘Causeway tartan’ tie to door-prize winner, Memphis TN, March 2014 North American lecture tours

Ulster Historical Foundation has been bringing its historical research expertise and knowledge of Irish archives to North America since 1979, delivering Irish and Scots-Irish genealogy programmes through our annual lecture tours. The Foundation is the only Irish historical research organisation undertaking regular and extensive family history lecture tours across the North American continent. The presenters are from one of Ireland’s foremost genealogy research organisations and one of the very few agencies within the British Isles to travel regularly to share its knowledge, skills and enthusiasm for Irish archives with American and Canadian audiences.

Our workshops are in-depth and highly educational programmes. Offering full-day and half-day or evening events, the speakers deliver presentations on a wide-range of Irish historical and genealogical subjects. The seminars provide very practical and detailed information on how to trace your Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors.

Executive Director, Fintan Mullan, Williamsburg VA, March 2015 The sessions help the beginner and the This year our Executive Director, Fintan Mullan, 11 seasoned genealogist alike: from the basics and Research Officer, Gillian Hunt, will speak in (for those new to Irish genealogy) to guidance thirteen locations across North America from 05 and research tips on utilising obscure and to 22 March 2016, including: unusual archival sources for 17th- and 18th- century research. Moreover our programmes Saturday 05-Mar-16 Toronto, ON are of value to researchers, no matter where Sunday 06-Mar-16 Boston, MA your ancestors originate on the island of Tuesday 08-Mar-16 Philadelphia, PA Ireland. Wednesday 09-Mar-16 Leesburg VA These expert sessions demonstrate how to get Thursday 10-Mar-16 Newberry, Chicago, IL the most out of Irish resources and records, Friday 11-Mar-16 Salt Lake City, UT provide strategies for breaking down brick Saturday 12-Mar-16 Portland, OR walls, and provide important historical context Sunday 13-Mar-16 Portland, OR that may help fill in gaps in your research. The Monday 14-Mar-16 Chehalis, WA programmes include ‘Solving your brick-walls’ – Wednesday 16-Mar-16 Fountaindale, IL a practical internet tutorial where the speakers Thursday 17-Mar-16 Memphis, TN use online resources and their local knowledge Saturday 19-Mar-16 Pittsburgh, PA to offer participants tips and specific advice Sunday 20-Mar-16 York Co., PA about their personal research interests. Tuesday 22-Mar-16 Halifax, NS

Gillian Hunt, book stall, Ottawa ON, All of our events are open to the general public as well as members March 2015 of the host organisations. Full details of March 2016 programme, including times, venues and booking information can be found on Whether you are just our website at: beginning your Irish www.ancestryireland.com/northamericantour2016 research or have been at it for years, you won’t want to Our staff are happy to travel to any location where we are invited to miss the Foundation’s Irish speak and can offer a wide range of lectures which we tailor to suit and Scots-Irish workshops! a group’s needs. If you or your local society are interested in hosting a workshops in 2017 or 2018, please contact the Foundation by emailing: enquiry@ uhf. org. uk. 12 B o

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Among the genealogical titles produced by the Foundation, Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The essential genealogical guide to Early Modern Ulster by William J. Roulston, provides a detailed overview of pre-1800 records for tracing your roots in the north of Ireland, including a parish by parish listing of available sources.

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of the 1830s provide a fascinating account of life across much of the north of Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine. These have now been published in 40 volumes and are available to purchase from the Foundation.

We have hundreds of Irish history and genealogy books and eBooks available on our bookstore, booksireland. org. uk. 14 U ur membership association, the Ulster Genealogical and

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Very rare gravestone inscription in Monasterboice monastic site, County Louth, inscribed in Gaelic, Latin and English. 15 Product discounts Guild members enjoy huge discounts on our products and services: • 50% off all baptism/birth, marriage and death/burial records on www. ancestryireland. com. • Free access to over 200 member-only databases, many covering all of Ireland; and free access to our research library in Belfast. • Free access to over 50,000 gravestone inscriptions and to History of the Irish Parliament online. • 15% off the Foundation’s publications, when purchased through our online bookstore. Non-internet sales enjoy 10% discount. • Discounts on research consultations and initial assessments as well as privileged access to the

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Access to our members’ area at new york www. ancestryireland. com/membership london The online members’ area contains nashville over 160 articles from previous issues of Familia 1985–2005 and further san francisco ireland articles on research and guides to sources. sydney Celebrate Ulster’s heritage: cape town educational and social events Be part of and contribute to a vibrant Irish research community. The Foundation frequently holds local and international lecture tours, book launches and other functions. Your membership ensures that you are kept informed of all events. Celebrate Ulster’s connection with the wider world. Prices start from as little as US $50 for one year’s membership. Join at www. ancestryireland.com/membership ‘Your search established the blood relationship to our complete satisfaction and we are in constant correspondence with our relatives in Ireland and have visited them at their home. They are as thrilled as we are at the success of your research. ’ Howard T. Pollock, USA

Ulster Historical Foundation provides a professional and comprehensive range From Pomeroy to the Moon of research services for the nine counties of the historic province of One of Foundation’s most successful Ulster. Each year the staff at the research reports, certainly in terms of Foundation answer thousands of publicity, was that completed for Colonel James B. Irwin, whose family genealogical enquiries. Since 1956 the hailed from Altmore and Turnabarson, Ulster Historical Foundation has Pomeroy, County Tyrone. Col. Irwin was offered its research services to clients an astronaut who flew on the Apollo 15 all over the world, with over 15,000 mission 26 July–07 August 1971. This detailed reports into family history fourth manned lunar mission was being produced. We offer a range of distinguished by the first utilisation of research services: the famous lunar rover. The Foundation identified his ancestral Initial Assessment line by locating the marriage on Ideal for those who are not sure how 29 April 1879 in Altedesert parish to get started with their Irish research. church, of John Irwin of Altmore, An initial research assessment farmer, son of Thomas Irwin, to Mary explores the feasibility of archival Benson, daughter of Matthew Benson research by identifying sources of of Turnabarson. potential relevance for your family In September 1979 Col. Irwin made a history. personal visit to Ulster. He visited his ancestral home in Pomeroy, and met Specific Research many local people during his trip, Ideal for those who have specific which included a number of well- research that they would like carried publicised social events. In appreciation for helping him to reconnect with his out, for example, a particular church Ulster roots, Col. Irwin presented the register or landed estate record they Foundation with two signed colour wish to have examined. photographs of his moon flight. www.ancestryireland.com/research-services 17 R e s e a r c h

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Six steps to get started researching your Irish ancestors

uccess in Irish genealogy can never be guaranteed. The loss of Sso many records combined with poor record-keeping has made the task of searching out Irish forebears more difficult than in other parts of the world. Nonetheless, there are many sources that can be checked and which do have the potential to reveal much about your family history in Ireland. Below we have made a number of suggestions to help you kick start your research into your Irish ancestry. Some of the steps will be more applicable to some than others and their usefulness will depend to some extent on when exactly an ancestor left Ireland. It is unfortunately true that the earlier an ancestor crossed the Atlantic the more difficult it becomes to find out more about their life and family background in Ireland. 20 1 Search the online records of the Irish Family History Foundation The Irish Family History Foundation is the co-ordinating body for a network of county-based genealogical research centres in Ireland. These centres have computerised over 20 million Irish genealogical records, including church and civil records, census returns and gravestone inscriptions. Most of the centres have made their records available online via the subscription based website: www. rootsireland.ie . You may find it helpful to subscribe for a month to establish whether any relevant records can be found on this site. The site contains the largest collection of church and civil records for the island of Ireland that are searchable online.

Round tower and high cross of Monasterboice monastic site, County Louth

2 Search digitised church records online The website www. irishgenealogy. ie has begun indexing and digitising Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic Church records for Carlow, Cork, Kerry and Dublin city. Recently the National Library of Ireland has digitised its microfilms of Roman Catholic Church registers up to 1880 – these are available at www. nli. ie. This is helpful to search if you know the parish or area your ancestors came; if you do not know the year or parish, you will find it more useful and efficient to first search the Roman Catholic databases available on www. roots ireland. ie. 21 3 Search census returns online The only two censuses which are available in their entirety for the island of Ireland were compiled in 1901 and 1911. These censuses are now available for free online at www. censusnationalarchives.ie . It is possible to download a scanned image of the actual census return for each household.

Although your ancestor may have left Ireland long before the 1901 census, other members of their immediate family may have stayed behind. Census returns may be a way of finding out more about them. Although ages given in census returns are frequently inaccurate, they can be a basis for searching for birth certificates. This website also holds scans of the surviving fragments of the 1821 to 1851 census returns.

Self-service microfilm readers, search room, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

4 Search the civil registration indexes Civil registration of all births, marriages and deaths began in Ireland in 1864. Non-Catholic marriages had been registered by the state from 1845. The website FamilySearch. org ( www. familysearch. org ) includes civil registration indexes, 1845 –1958. Genealogists can now search a single name index of births, deaths and marriages for the period 1845 –1921 for all of Ireland with additional indexes for the Republic of Ireland from 1922 to 1958. 22 www. irishgenealogy. ie also has the indexes to births, marriages and deaths – births over 100 years, marriages over 75 years and deaths over 50 years. Birth references for the years 1900 to 1914 contain the mother’s maiden name and marriage references for the years 1882 to 1939 contain the names of both the bride and the

Conference groom. participants, June 2014, with Dr Brian The General Register Office of Northern Ireland has digitised all its Lambkin (Director of the Mellon Centre for records and made its historic records available online for a fee. This Migration Studies), exploring the Mellon includes all births over 100 years, all marriages over 75 years and all homestead, Ulster deaths over 50 years. These can be accessed at American Folk Park, Omagh, County Tyrone https:// geni. nidirect.gov. uk/ . 23

5 Search the PRONI eCatalogue The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ( www. proni.gov.uk ) is one of the best regional archives in the British Isles. Many of its collections have been catalogued in some detail and its once voluminous paper catalogues are now available electronically. It is worth spending some time going through the eCatalogue to see if any records of potential relevance can be discovered. These can then be searched if you are able to visit PRONI in person or you can commission the Ulster Historical Foundation to examine documents on your behalf. Other databases of records are available on the PRONI website and are worth perusing for information of relevance. 6 Search Valuation records online After civil and church registers, probably the most important nineteenth-century source for researching Irish ancestors is Griffith’s Valuation of c. 1850 –60, the first truly comprehensive survey of property in Ireland. The website www. askaboutireland.ie provides a free search facility. Tithe Applotment Books from the 1820s and 1830s only concern land liable for tithes so will not include ancestors who were, for example, labourers or lived in urban areas. Nonetheless it is an important source for identifying surname locations in the pre- famine period. Those books for the Republic of Ireland (which include a few parishes in Northern Ireland which border the Republic) are now available online at: www. titheapplotmentbooks. nationalarchives.ie . 24

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