Using the Internet for Irish Research

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by Dennis J. Ahern

Some Websites to Look at

• Book of Kells at http://www.dubois.ws/people/paul/kells/kell3bmp.gif
• Social Security Death Index at http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
• National Archives Passenger Lists at http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/immigrant/immpass.html
• Ellis Island Search Engine at http://home.pacbell.net/spmorse/ellis/ellis.html
• Irish Passenger Lists at http://www.genealogy.org/~ajmorris/ireland/ireemg/ireemg.htm
• Immigrants to Canada at http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html
• Ahern Passengers to New York at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ahimmig.htm#famine
• Church of Jesus Christ, LDS at http://www.familysearch.org/
• IreAtlas Townland Database at http://www.seanruad.com/
• Public Records Office of Northern Ireland at http://proni.nics.gov.uk/index.htm
• Cyndi's List for Ireland at http://www.cyndislist.com/ireland.htm
• Genealogy Home Page at http://www.genhomepage.com
• Ultimate Family Tree at http://www.uftree.com/
• Rootsweb Surname List at http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi
• Family Tree Maker at http://www.familytreemaker.com
• Genealogy Portal Surnames at http://surname.genealogyportal.com
• Ulster Historical Foundation Surnames at http://www.uhf.org.uk/ancestorsSe.htm
• Commonwealth War Graves at http://www.cwgc.org/cwgc/main.htm
• Yourfamily.com Bulletin Board at http://www.yourfamily.com/searchgb.cgi
• Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist
• Making a Home Page at http://www.yourfamily.com/making_hp.shtml
• Coats of Arms at http://homepage.tinet.ie/~donnaweb/index.html
• Usenet Search Engine at http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html
• Google Search Engine at http://www.google.com
• People Search on Yahoo at http://people.yahoo.com
• Genealogy on Yahoo at http://dir.yahoo.com/arts/humanities/history/genealogy/
• Irish Family History Foundation at http://www.irishroots.net/
• TIARA's Heritage Centre Report at http://tiara.ie/results.htm
• Professional Researchers in Ireland at http://www.nationalarchives.ie/gen_researchers.html
• Professional Researchers in Northern Ireland at http://proni.nics.gov.uk/research/searcher.htm
• Genealogy Charts and Forms at http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/familysheet.htm
• Global Genealogy Supply at http://www.globalgenealogy.com/
• Irish Newspaper Abstracts at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/index.html
• Archive of Internet Web Pages at http://webdev.archive.org/
• The Irish Ancestral Research Association at http://tiara.ie

Getting on the Internet

• Getting on the Web at http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2002,5,38,1,0201,01.html
• Rootsweb Home Pages at http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/websites.html
• Free Public Home Pages at http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
• Web Hosting Service at http://www.hway.com/
• Free Email on Yahoo at http://mail.yahoo.com/

Some Books You Can Read

• Sourcing Canada: Genealogy Addresses
  by Elizabeth Barclay-Lapointe, pub. by Buckingham Press, Buckingham, Quebec
• Searching for Cyber-Roots: a Step-by-step Guide
  by Laurie and Steve Bonner, pub. by Ancestry, Salt Lake City, UT
• Genealogy Online: Researching Your Roots
  by Elizabeth Powell Crowe, pub. by McGraw-Hill, NY
• Your Roots: Total Genealogy Planning on Your Computer
  by Richard Eastman, pub. by Ziff-Davis Press, Emeryville, CA
• Netting Your Ancestors: Genealogical Research on the Internet
  by Cyndi Howells, pub. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD
• Genealogy Online for Dummies
  Published by IDG Books
• Virtual Roots: a Guide to Genealogy and Local History
  by Thomas Jay Kemp, pub. by Scholarly Resources, Wilmington, DE
• Genealogy in the Computer Age
  by Elizabeth L. Nichols, pub. by Family History Educators, Salt Lake City, UT
• Family Gathering: Bring Your Family Tree to Life
  Pub. by Palladium Interactive, Mountain View, CA
• The Internet for Genealogists: a Beginner's Guide
  by Barbara Renick and Richard S. Wilson, pub. by Compuology, La Habra, CA
• Genealogy via the Internet: Tracing Your Family Roots
  by Ralph Roberts, pub. by Alexander Books, Alexander, NC
• HTML for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro