1.  GENUKI:  www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl

2.  Fianna Hideaway & Guide to Irish Genealogy:  www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fianna

3.  Irish Ancestors: www.irishtimes.com/Ancestor

4.  National Archives of Ireland:  www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

5. The National Archives (UK) - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

6.  Public Records office of Northern Ireland: www.proni.gov.uk

7.  Cyndis List: http://www.cyndislist.com/ireland.htm

[Please comment below if you have have additional websites for Irish Genealogy research].

I’ve been borrowing books from the Alberta Family Histories Society library, some of which I wish I had available all the time at home for reference.

My latest purchases are:

• Finding Your Ancestors in English Quebec by Althea Douglas

• Finding your Irish Ancestors by Dr. Penelope Christensen

• Researching Irish Court Records by Brian Hutchinson

• Researching Irish Census Records…Including Census Substitute Records by Brian W. Hutchison

The more I know about the hows and whys the more likely I’ll solve our KERR brick wall and get them out of Quebec and back to a specific place in Ireland.

P.S. I am sooooo lovin’ being retired.  I have time to play

He married Eliza Victoria GODWIN on 02 June 1857 in Ontario, Canada. 

They had one child Samuel Franklin WOODLAND.

Connections? 

Please comment below no matter how remote the connection might be.  Thanks!

To access the collection click here.

• County Antrim -25,000 Church of Ireland birth records

• County Armagh – almost 2,000 records from the 1821 census records

• County Down – 3000 Church of Ireland birth records

• County Leitrim -18,000 birth records, 7,000 marriage records, 54,000 census records

• County Mayo -42,000 baptismal records, 25,000 marriages, 3,500 deaths, 28,000 census records

• County Cork -11,000 births, 4,000 marriages, 21,000 Gravestone inscriptions, 9,000 census

They are working towards making the records of Counties Laois, Offaly and Wexford available on the site in early 2010.

The new website address for the Irish Family History Foundation is www.RootsIreland.ie

The Irish Family History Foundation recently announded the addition of the records of Derry ~ Londonderry Genealogy to their Online Research Service (ORS)  This covers  the parishes and districts of County Derry on its Online Research Service (ORS). This adds another 0.8 million more baptismal, birth, death, marriage, and census records to the online database bringing the total number of records  searchable online is 16.2 million.

Go to the  IFHF site and log in (or create a log in) . http://derry.brsgenealogy.com

(one purchases credits which can be spent at any of the IFHF online centres.  This service also includes an interactive map).

I have explored a lot of different avenues on our elusive search to find the Irish origin of our KERR ancestors.  It also means I’m on lots of Irish mailing lists.  I just heard of this update with regards to County Donegal.

New records added to Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System
The Irish Family History Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the records of Donegal Ancestry covering the parishes and districts of County Donegal on its Online Research Service (ORS). This adds another 2/3 million more baptismal, birth, death, marriage, census and gravestone records to our online database. The total number of records now searchable online is 15.6 million.

Login using your existing IFHF login details. http://donegal.brsgenealogy.com

Remember that you can purchase and spend your credit at any of the IFHF online centres.

Please check out their interactive map to see which county genealogy centres have data available online; further counties will be adding their data in the coming months.

“The period covered by the database, 1720 to 1940, begins where Rolf Loeber’s A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 left off and ends with the pause in building activity in Ireland during the Second World War.

The database contains biographies of architects and others who were active in Ireland between these dates, lists of their works, and lists of writings on or by them. Although it is principally devoted to architects, it includes engineers who designed buildings and structures, some builders, some artists and craftsmen, and some amateurs and writers on architectural subjects. Builders and craftsmen are indicated by an asterisk (*).”

I searched for KERR, my paternal family line but alas there were no architects, builders or craftsman that matched up with my family tree.  That’s not to say you won’t find your elusive Irish relatives here.  Give it a shot.  Good luck!

We can’t get this family out of Canada and back to a specific place in Ireland.  I’ve researched extensively in Quebec and have the names of the spouses of the children, death certificates, census records, obits, land records etc but no luck yet.  The documentation says….born in “Ireland” but not “Where” in Ireland!

The indexes to the Irish Civil birth, marriage, death registrations have been uploaded on a pilot site at a LDS webpage.

I can use the Irish Civil Registrations to locate pockets of Kerrs and Hendersons.  Alas our James Kerr won’t be in this database.  He was born before the time period of this index and died outside the country….BUT perhaps I can find him in another collection.

For an index of all the collections (many countries) go here.

We are searching for a James KERR b1804 in Ireland married to Jane S. HENDERSON b. 1810 who emigrated to Canada sometime between 1841 and 1847. Children born in Ireland were James, Catherine, Jemina, and William.  They had one more daughter Sarah born in Quebec. They were Methodist in Canada.

We can’t get this family out of Canada and back to a specific place in Ireland.  I’ve researched extensively in Quebec and have the names of the spouses of the children, death certificates, census records, obits, land records etc but no luck yet.  The documentation says….born in “Ireland” but not “Where” in Ireland!

If you have any suggestions or connections to might help resolve this brick wall please use the comment form or contact me here.

Thanks!

Joan