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New Catholic parish maps
Просмотров 5296 месяцев назад
The Irish Ancestors map extravaganza continues. This time it's the turn of the Catholic parish maps, long one of the most popular parts of the site, and free to use. The video describes how the originals they're based on came about, illustrating why they need to be treated with caution. The video also gives details of a completely new feature, map overlays of civil and Catholic parishes, showin...
Irish Ancestors: Weird surnames that shouldn’t be Irish (but are)
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.7 месяцев назад
What's "weird"? This entirely subjective rant goes through some of the Irish surnames that have jumped up and poked me in the eye over the past thirty years.
Irish Ancestors: How Irish Surnames came into English (3)
Просмотров 3717 месяцев назад
The most common route by which Gaelic Irish surnames came into English was phonetic transcription. Without the "O" or "Mc" prefixes, of course. And sometimes heavily distorted by accents. Some of the most common names are dealt with in this video.
Irish Ancestors: How Irish Surnames came into English (2)
Просмотров 5769 месяцев назад
When Irish-language surnames were recorded by English-speakers with some knowledge of the language, the results could be sometime be grotesque mistranslation. This video rants about some of the most egregious examples.
Irish Ancestors: New Civil Parish Maps
Просмотров 788Год назад
Civil parishes are an essential part of researching Irish ancestors, because they were the geographic divisions used to create state records. We've just finished a major upgrade to the civil parish maps on johngrenham.com, adding zooming, townland names and glorious Technicolor. This video explains how the maps work.
Irish Ancestors: How Irish Surnames came into English (1)
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.Год назад
One of the basic obstacles to Irish research is the fact that the Gaelic names of Gaelic-speakers were recorded by English speakers. This video details the most extreme form of mutilation visited on the originals, where completely unrelated English names took their place.
Irish Ancestors: IrishGenealogy search quirks
Просмотров 3,8 тыс.Год назад
IrishGenealogy.ie is a wonderful site, but there are undocumented peculiarities in the way it searches civil records of births, marriages and deaths. This video gives details and examples.
Irish Ancestors: Major Irish Surnames
Просмотров 9 тыс.Год назад
Irish genealogists' dirty little secret is that some surnames are so numerous and concentrated that they're almost unresearchable. This video names the *!%! Murphys and Kellys.
Irish Ancestors: Anglo Irish Surnames
Просмотров 787Год назад
"Anglo-Irish" can be a very slippery term, especially when applied to surnames. But it's worth persevering. This video follows me trying to persevere.
Irish Ancestors: Norman Surnames
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
The Normans arrived in Ireland just as the process of surname acquisition got going among the Gaels, and they joined in with gusto. This video covers s few of the most prominent names.
Irish Ancestors: Huguenot Surnames
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The Huguenots were Calvinist refugees from Catholic France, who made their way through England and Ireland to North America at the end of the seventeenth century. Plenty stayed behind and so did their surnames.
Irish Ancestors: Palatine Surnames
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.Год назад
The Palatines came to Ireland at the start of the 18th century as impoverished refugees from southern Germany. Many simply passed through on their way to North America. But many stayed in Ireland, and their names remain a distinctive part of the ecology of Irish surnames.
Irish Ancestors: Viking Surnames
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.Год назад
First in a series sketching the origins of the most common kinds of Irish surnames
Websites of National repositories: The Library of Congress
Просмотров 421Год назад
The websites of National repositories can be decent research resources in their own right. This video looks at the Library of Congress site and points out some (underused?) sources.
Websites of National repositories: PRONI
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Websites of National repositories: PRONI
Websites of National repositories: The National Archives of the UK
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Websites of National repositories: The National Archives of the UK
Websites of National repositories: The National Archives of Ireland
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Websites of National repositories: The National Archives of Ireland
Irish Ancestors: Rant about first names
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.2 года назад
Irish Ancestors: Rant about first names
Irish Ancestors: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.2 года назад
Irish Ancestors: Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Neglected Irish Sources: Loan Fund records
Просмотров 6382 года назад
Neglected Irish Sources: Loan Fund records
Neglected Irish Sources: The Church of Ireland and the RCB Library
Просмотров 6252 года назад
Neglected Irish Sources: The Church of Ireland and the RCB Library
Irish Ancestors:19th Century Census fragments
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.2 года назад
Irish Ancestors:19th Century Census fragments
Neglected sources: Online estate maps
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.2 года назад
Neglected sources: Online estate maps
Neglected Irish sources: Betham's Will Abstracts
Просмотров 6182 года назад
Neglected Irish sources: Betham's Will Abstracts
Irish Ancestors: The tale of Thady Quill
Просмотров 5212 года назад
Irish Ancestors: The tale of Thady Quill
Irish Ancestors: 2.9 cheers for irishgenealogy.ie
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Irish Ancestors: 2.9 cheers for irishgenealogy.ie
Irish Ancestors: 19th century census substitutes
Просмотров 8572 года назад
Irish Ancestors: 19th century census substitutes
Irish Ancestors: An antidote to Paddywhackery
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.2 года назад
Irish Ancestors: An antidote to Paddywhackery