Genealogy Links - This Is a Link to Links Site to 30 Countries Genealogy Web Sites
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Free Global Web Sites: FamilySearch http://Familysearch.org/ - FamilySearch has 2017 files. Please note that I always recommend that users sign up for a Free Account which is required to see the image of the source document (when an image is available). Users need to store their user-id and password for future use. Family Search Collections List https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list As of July 18, 2016, there were 2107 collections arranged alphabetically. FamilySearch Family Trees https://familysearch.org/family-trees/ I caution everyone on using information from Family Trees because the information may not be verifiable. FamilySearch Learn https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/ Free Overseas Web Sites Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/ - FamilySearch has over 1000 databases for 92 countries. The people behind FamilySearch believe that families are meant to be a central part of life, which is why they have been gathering, preserving, and sharing family records for over 100 years. They offer what they find for free to the public. Supported by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization worldwide with over 4,000 family history centers worldwide, including the well-known Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Family Search Collections List https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list- This FamilySearch site provides online access to indexes and digital images of records held by the Family History Library. The collections can be accessed from the FamilySearch homepage or directly at Historical Record Collections. New collections are being uploaded as quickly as the records are digitized and indexed. Ancestry Library at Morrill Memorial Library http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/info/norwood.htm - Ancestry Library Edition database (similar to the international version of Ancestry.com) offers the world's largest online collection of genealogical records, especially for Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Please note that Ancestry.com is not included because it is a subscription service. FreeGenData.com http://FreeGenData.com - A search tool to help you locate free genealogy databases and record transcriptions on the web. On October 15, for example there were 551 Australian and 192 New Zealand web sites. Immigrant Ships http://www.immigrantships.net/ - This site contains ships' passenger lists and a guide to hundreds of sites with information on passengers, ship type, stories and pictures. The arrivals and departures list includes: Australia, Canada, Caribbean, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, South America and the United States. Interment.net http://www.interment.net/cemetery.htm- A collaborative effort of cemetery preservation advocates working to increase public awareness and activism in preserving, protecting and restoring endangered and forgotten historic cemeteries worldwide. GG Archives http://www.gjenvick.com/#axzz4FdjKbDyj – This archives has a collection of Immigration and Steamship Voyages 1880-1954. Europe Genealogy Links http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/ - This is a link to links site to 30 countries genealogy web sites. German Roots germanroots.com This is a link to links web site. JewishGen www.jewishgen.org This site has records for 15 European Countries, Canada and the United States. There are also Holocast records Free Irish Genealogy Web Sites Family Search https://familysearch.org/ - Supposedly, there are about a half a billion records in their databases. Family Search Collections List https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list - There are 11 collections for Ireland. Ancestry Library, New Collections http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx#ccat=hc=25&dbSort=3&sbo=1&title=Ireland &keyword=&/ - There are 84 Irish collections. Since early 2016, the collection that I have used most is Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers. There are over 25 million records with 11 thousand images Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI registers.nli.ie/ - This is the source of the 25 million records 11 thousand images in the Ancestry Library Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers. This is most useful to scan a Parish Register going back to the first page of the Register, first page of a year etc. I have used it to find siblings for an individual that I have found in Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers. John Grenham;s List of Major Irish Records Sources - https://www.johngrenham.com/browse/ John describes it as an Overview of the records: i.e., County-by-county listings; Interactive Maps; The Irish Abroad; Addresses; Blogs and articles; and Irish genealogy links. I describe it as an amazing portal. It includes a fantastic inventory of links. I especially like his maps. FreeGenData.com freegendata.com - A search tool to help you locate free genealogy databases and record transcriptions on the web. For Ireland there were 992 links and for Galway, Ireland, there were 35 web site links. Tithe Applotment Books 1823 - 1837 http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1270- - They were compiled to determine the amount which occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland (the main Protestant church and the church established by the State until its dis-establishment in 1871. Census of Ireland 1901/1911 http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ - All 32 Counties are covered. Ask About Ireland and The Irish Cultural Project http://www.askaboutireland.ie/ - AskAboutIreland and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives in the digitization and online publication of the original, the unusual and the unique material from their local studies' collections to create a national Internet resource for culture. The participating organizations have selected material of particular public interest from their holdings within a variety of common topics ranging from sport, transport and architecture to flora and fauna and Irish writers. The material is then digitized (scanned, digitally photographed, recorded etc.) and set in a narrative context. A number of County Libraries have included AskAboutIrelend.ie on their web sites. The current version includes Irish Times newspaper articles back to 1859. Also included is an alphabetical list of names in each directory. Irish Genealogy – Church Records http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ - The database contains Church records for Kerry and some parishes in Cork. Ross and Dublin City are being added. Roscommon is being digitized. It includes Protestant records. Irish Genealogy Projects Archives http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/index.htm - The new search engine explores a number of on-line sources of genealogical information e.g. the 1901 and 1911 Census returns, in addition to the Church records which were already available on the site. Irish Graveyard Surveyors http://www.IrishGraveyards.ie/ - This site’s search engine allows the user to search a number of Irish graveyards to locate a specific grave or simply to browse through a graveyard or number of graveyards. The graveyard locator is a useful tool. Irish Historic Grave Project http://www.Historicgraves.ie/ - This site is a community based heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and stories. GenWed.com - Free Genealogy / Family History Online http://www.genwed.com/UK/ireland.htm - The site focuses on Marriage records. Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/ - PRONI aims to identify, preserve and make available Northern Ireland's unique archival heritage and community memory. The Ulster Covenant archive and Freeholders records held by PRONI have been digitized and indexed and are available on the PRONI website. These online archives http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives.htm are fully searchable and have links to digitized images of the original documents. A project to index and digitize 1858 - c1900 wills from the District Probate Registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry is almost complete. Phase one – an index to the will calendar entries http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/will_calendars.htm (grants of probate and letters of administration) - is now available on the PRONI website. Phase two - to link the will calendar entries to the digitized images of the wills - will follow shortly. Ireland Cemeteries on Interment.net by County Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Westmeath Wexford Wicklow Derry Ireland County GenWeb – For ten counties, there are GenWeb sites that have tabs for Vital Records (Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Death). The tab is usually labeled Records or On-Line Records. All of the following sites have Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Death records. Clare - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcla2/ Donegal - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irldon/ Galway - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlgal/ Kerry - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Kilkenny - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ Leitrim - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irllet/ Laois - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irllex/ Mayo - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlmay/ Tipperary - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irltip/tipperary.htm Down - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/ Ireland County GenWeb – Only Baptisms or Baptisms and Marriages, For four counties, there