We would like to thank our friend, Boyd Gray – West Ulster Genealogy Services for providing this comprehensive list of “Essential Genealogy Links” when researching your Irish / Scots-Irish ancestors.

ESSENTIAL GENEALOGY LINKS - IRISH GENEALOGY ONLINE

This list contains all of the websites which Boyd finds most useful for researching family history in Ireland.

Censuses:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

1831 Londonderry Census Fragment:

http://www.billmacafee.com/1831census.htm

Griffiths Valuation:

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

http://www.failteromhat.com/griffithsall.php

http://census.nationalarchives.ie/search/vob/home.jsp

https://www.valoff.ie/en/archive-research/genealogy/

Griffiths Valuation Revision Books:

http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/val12b.htm

shorturl.at/ruwHK

Tithe Applotment Books:

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/.../home.jsp

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1804886

https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/BrowseSearchResults.aspx

https://cotyroneireland.com/menus/tithe.html

Births/Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths/Burials (BMDs):

http://www.rootsireland.ie/

https://familysearch.org/

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/

http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/.../civil-search.jsp

Church Records on microfilm at PRONI:

http://www.proni.gov.uk/guide_to_church_records.pdf

Catholic Church Registers:

http://registers.nli.ie/

http://www.welfare.ie/en/Pages/Apply-for-Certificates.aspx

Wills:

http://www.proni.gov.uk/.../search_the.../will_calendars.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1921305 http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/.../home.jsp

Graveyards:

http://www.igp-web.com/.../photos/tombstones/markers.htm

http://www.irishgraveyards.ie/search_page.php

https://www.derrystrabane.com/cemeteryrecords

https://www.findagrave.com/

OAP/Census Records:

http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/.../cs/home.jsp

http://search.findmypast.ie/search-world-records-in...

Emigration:

https://archive.org/details/irishpassengerli00mitc

http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/

http://www.castlegarden.org/

http://www.immigrantships.net/

http://www.famineships.info/

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_ships.shtml

Newspapers:

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

https://www.irishnewsarchive.com/publication-list/

Parliamentary Papers:

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi

Military Records:

http://imr.inflandersfields.be/search.html

http://www.cwgc.org/

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/all-records

Townland and historic maps:

https://www.townlands.ie/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../Done...

http://www.cotyroneireland.com/menus/maps.html

http://map.geohive.ie/

https://apps.spatialni.gov.uk/PRONIApplication/

https://www.swilson.info/regdistmap.php

National Archives:

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

http://www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/.../genealog.../introduction/

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/.../search-archives-online

County Websites:

http://donegalgenealogy.com/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../ired...

http://www.cotyrone.com/

http://www.cotyroneireland.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/440252732729871/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172319309584937/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy

Genealogy Help Lists:

http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/IRL/

http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NIR/

Facebook Pages:

https://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy?ref=hl https://www.facebook.com/groups/castledergfamilyhistorysociety/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/326996944081379/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/440252732729871/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/colerainenifhs?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/172319309584937/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DonegalGenealogy/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/749886925022075/?fref=ts

BG Guide Booklets and Videos:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../genb...

http://www.cotyroneireland.com/videos/monreagh.html

The LDS Handouts:

https://familysearch.org/.../Online_Webinars_from_the...

Family Tree Software:

http://www.genopro.com/

http://www.genopro.com/archives/

Printing Trees:

https://www.my-history.co.uk/.../Family-Tree-Printing...

Link to reach Boyd Gray:

West Ulster Genealogy Services.

In order for Boyd to help research your folks, two criteria need to be met:

1. Your folks should not have left Ireland much before the famine years, 1845-1850, because we simply do not have the records required for successful research before that time.

2. You need to have a good idea of where in Ireland your folks lived before emigrating, at least the parish and preferably the townland, because finding a Kelly in "Ireland" doesn't even come close to needles and haystacks.

Boyd Gray West Ulster Genealogy:

http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm

http://www.westulstergenealogy.com/

http://www.facebook.com/westulstergenealogy

WORKSHOPS AND LINKS

Boyd has created 13 video workshops to help you research your Irish Family History:

https://www.cotyroneireland.com/videos/monreagh.html

........................or here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9Rq4m7L-M...