Thursday 28 March 2013

IRISH GENEALOGY new site launch...


An Irish emigrant to the US waits next to an Italian and her children at Ellis Island in the early 20th century. A new website, irishgenealogy.ie, brings together census data, land records, military archives, wills and even Ellis Island records onto a single portal. Photograph: FPG/Getty Images 




By going to the original site below, you will be able to read the various comments, including that of Chris Paton... with whom I have to agree. As always, you can enlarge image by clicking on it.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/one-stop-ancestry-shop-opens-for-business-1.1339670

2 comments:

  1. I love this website because it gave me my 2xgreat grandparents' marriage and a daughter's baptism, as well as clues to where they lived. I'd had no chance of this in the preceding 30 years as I had no idea how long they'd been in Dublin.

    I think their comment that it gives an "ease" to Irish research is a bit optimistic as many of us could testify.

    Imagine an IrishPeople facility -wouldn't that be heaven on a stick!!

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  2. Every little bit helps... and we who are so far away, truly appreciate all that we can do online now. I like the idea of Heaven on a stick! ;-)

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