Well done to all at the East Galway Family History Society in Woodford, County Galway,  Dr Paul Rondelez, Sliabh Aughty Furnace Project for reintroducing a lost craft of making bloomery iron using bog/iron ore and charcoal, the first time that this has happened in Ireland in almost 250 years. Making history also was Monica Hynes, Manager of the East Galway Family History Society, who became the first Irish female smelter in recorded history!

Woodford village and its smelting initiative was featured recently on the popular RTÉ programme, ‘Nationwide’, which you can watch at the link below.

https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/nationwide-21/10954384/

 

 

Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors  – Now Available!

 

Ulster Historical Foundation is pleased to announce that the new edition of Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors is now in stock!

Priced at just £19.99 (plus P&P) this new edition of Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors is a massively expanded version of the first volume, running to over 600 pages – more than double the length of the original.

A ‘must have’ resource for Irish family history

More detailed information is included on the importance of church and land records and new chapters explore the value of records relating to charitable bodies, fraternal organisations and businesses. There is also a discussion of potential sources of information on emigration. A set of parish maps for each county in Ulster has been included and along with a listing of more than 600 places in the province giving the parish location.

Whether your ancestors are of English, Scottish or Gaelic Irish background, whether their religious affiliation was Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic or other, whether they were farmers, merchants or labourers, this volume will be of enormous value to anyone wishing to find out more about their Ulster roots.

To order the book, please go to this link:

Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600–1800 (Second Edition)

A new book by Brian Mitchell of our Derry Centre, Foyle Maritime Memories; Photographs from the Bigger and McDonald Collection 1927-1939, was published recently by Colourpoint Books. 

Through photographs taken by the Derry Standard newspaper, prior to the Second World War, this book explores Derry and Lough Foyle’s maritime history; the key themes being emigration, transatlantic tourism and the activities of the Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners – of its divers, dredger Hercules, graving dock, shipyard and launch T.F. Cooke. This book illustrates the vitality and importance of Derry’s north Atlantic outlook.

 

 

It captures, for example, the arrival of General Balbo and his ‘Italian Transatlantic Air Armada’ of twenty-four seaplanes on the Foyle on Sunday 2 July 1933 on their way to Chicago’s World Fair.

 The year before, Derry had been the centre of another big trans-Atlantic news story that had captured the world’s imagination: the arrival of Amelia Earhart on Saturday 21^st May 1932, the first women to fly the Atlantic solo, at Robert Gallagher’s farm at Ballyarnet. This event is captured in six pages of photographs.

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To obtain this offer just go to the following link and login using your existing RootsIreland login details: http://www.rootsireland.ie. If you currently have a subscription, click My Account, My Subscription and Start a New Subscription. The special deal subscription will then begin once your current subscription runs out.

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New records for Co. Dublin (North)

St Colmcille’s Church, Swords

We are pleased to announce that Fingal Genealogy have added 1,000 gravestone inscription records to its database at www.dublinnorth.rootsireland.ie including the following :

St Colmcille’s, Swords (Roman Catholic)
St Columba’s, Swords (Church of Ireland)

For a full list of sources for Co. Dublin (North) please click here

To search these records, go to dublinnorth.rootsireland.ie and select the ‘Parish / District’ from the drop down list. Login and Subscribe if required.

New records for East Galway

We are pleased to announce that East Galway Family History Society have added 38,000 records to its database at www.galwayeast.rootsireland.ie as follows:

Ballygar (RC): Baptisms, 1804-1897 Kilmacduagh (RC): Baptisms, 1848-1872

Leitrim (RC): Baptisms, 1815-1918

Portumna (RC): Baptisms, 1830-1917

Tynagh (RC): Baptisms, 1816-1917

 

St Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church, Portumna, County Galway

 

For a full list of sources for East Galway please click here

To search these records, go to eastgalway.rootsireland.ie and select the ‘Parish / District’ from the drop down list. Login and Subscribe if required.

New Newsletter!

We are very pleased to announce the publication of the second issue of our new newsletter, entitled Irish Genealogy Matters. In it, we aim to keep our clients and friends abreast of all the latest updates to our website, www.rootsireland.ie, news from our member centres and other facts and information for all of those interested in Irish genealogy. Click on the link below to read our newsletter. We hope you enjoy!

Kilkenny Book and Coin Fair will be held at the Clubhouse Hotel, Patrick Street, Kilkenny on Saturday 4th August 2018 from 10.30 am – 5.30 pm. Thousands of antiquarian, local history and general interest books, journals, maps, ephemera and rare coins.

 

Admission 2 euro.

Donation to Carlow/Kilkenny  Homecare Team.

The Genealogy Event, County Limerick

For the fifth year running, the Genealogy Event will be visiting County Limerick. Co-sponsored by RootsIreland.ie, and featuring Limerick Genealogy and representatives of the Irish Family History Foundation, it runs from Thursday 30^th August to Saturday 1^st September at Woodlands House Hotel, Adare, County Limerick. It offers a wealth of up to date information on researching your Irish ancestors using familiar genealogical resources, introductions to DNA and genealogy, as well as one on one genealogy consultations. For further details, please see www.thegenealogyevent.com.

 

Aoife Ryan of Limerick Genealogy speaking at last year’s event

 

New records for Co. Waterford

Holy Cross Church, Tramore, County Waterford

We are pleased to announce that Waterford Heritage have added over 12,000 records to its database at www.waterford.rootsireland.ie including the following :

Church of Ireland Marriages	11,772 Records
Tramore / Carbally Roman Catholic Baptisms	1,126 Records

For a full list of sources for Co. Waterford please click here

To search these records, go to waterford.rootsireland.ie and select the ‘Parish / District’ from the drop down list. Login and Subscribe if required.