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Sources Sources - Local History Newspapers Directories Maps Books Irish police and military 1916-23 period State papers

Links

• GENUKI (see site)
  • search
  • Google search

• FamilySearch Research Wiki
  • search
  • Google search

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Genealogy

• Irish genealogy
  • Genealogical Society Of Ireland
  • Irish Family History Society (formerly here)
  • Irish Genealogical Society International
  • Irish Ancestral Research Association
  • Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations
  • celticcousins.net
  • Shane Wilson

• John Grenham
  • Places
  • Browse
  • Site map

• "Who Do You Think You Are?"
  • Irish version

• Events
  • Back to our Past (Ireland)
  • Who Do You Think You Are? Live (UK)
  • Doors Open Day (Scotland)
  • Open House London
  • Open House Dublin

• Genealogical Research Directory
• familytreecircles.com

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Family trees online

• meta-search engine
• meta-search engine

File formats

• GEDCOM files
  • Ged2web (GEDCOM to HTML converter)
    Options - Notes - Include notes

• FTW files
  • Family Tree Maker (see here and formerly here)
  • Family Tree Maker User Trees
  • Family Archive Viewer (viewer for FTW files)
    • View - Genealogy Report
    • File - Export - save as txt
  • I was put off this because it installed DSS spyware. Apparently it was later safe, and is now discontinued.

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Discussion groups, chat, usenet, and mailing lists

• genealogy.com
  • GenForum discussion forums (and direct to surnames, or via here)

• ancestry.com
  • message boards

• RootsWeb
  • mailing lists (archives online)
  • search archives

• rootschat
  • Personal Messages (PM). Need to make several posts first.
  • To change "Personal text": Modify Profile - Forum Profile. Think need to make several posts first.

• Usenet
  • soc.genealogy.*
    • soc.genealogy.ireland
    • soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland

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Graves

• findagrave.com

• billiongraves.com

• deceasedonline.com

• Gravestone Photographic Resource by Charles Sale
  • View images
  • Non-commercial use allowed.

• memorialinscriptions.org.uk
• interment.net
  • Ireland

• irishgraves.com
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• National Graves Association (Ireland)

• Church Monuments Society
• The Monumental Brasses Of The British Isles
• effigiesandbrasses.com
• Some feudal coats of arms, Joseph Foster, 1902. (Pictures of brasses)

• Irish obituaries

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Longevity

• Oldest people
• List of the verified oldest people
• List of oldest people by country
• The oldest human ever is Jeanne Calment of France. She lived to age 122 years.

• Oldest person alive now:
  • List of oldest living people

• Oldest person I ever met:
  • The earliest-born person I ever met was a man born in 1876.

• Oldest person alive when I was born:
  • Chronological list of the oldest known living person since 1955
  • When I was born, people born in 1857 were still alive.

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Reference

• Etymology (origin of words)
  • Online Etymology Dictionary

• Flags
  • Flags Of The World

• Historical value of money convertor - How much is n pounds or dollars in the past in today's money?

• List of old occupations

Latin

• Latin versions of personal names (see here)
• Latin numbers, words and phrases used for dates

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia
  • skins (login - preferences - Appearance - set default skin)
    • new default "vector" skin (Ctrl-minus to make font smaller)
    • old default "monobook" skin
  • To disable the new image viewer: Preferences - Appearance - File - Enable Media Viewer.

• In defence of Wikipedia

• Wiktionary
• Wikinews

• Wikimedia Commons (public domain images)

• WikiGallery

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Telephone

• List of country calling codes
  • Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland
  • List of dialling codes in the Republic of Ireland
  • Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom
  • List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

• phone books
  • Irish phone dir
  • UK phone dir
  • US phone dir

• yellow pages
  • goldenpages.ie
  • yell.com (UK)
  • Thomson directory(UK)
  • 192.com (UK)

• Old British Phone Books, 1880 onwards on Ancestry

• UK Electoral Roll:
  • theukelectoralroll.co.uk
  • peopletracer.co.uk
  • whitepages.co.uk

• Company info
  • companieshouse.gov.uk (UK companies info)
  • solocheck.ie (UK and Irish companies info)

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Reference - History

• Pacata Hibernia by Thomas Stafford (1633).
  • 1801 edn (2 vols).
  • 1896 edn vol.1 and vol.2.

• Irish history
  • History of Ireland 1801-1923

• Irish history timelines
  • Wikipedia timelines
  • Chronology of Ireland
  • timeline
  • NI timeline

• The 1916-23 period

• The 1916 Rising

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Reference - Local History

• Europeana
  • Images

UK

• Listed buildings
  • Historic England map of listed buildings.
  • British Listed Buildings
  • Images of England will put online images of every listed building in England.

• Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
• English Heritage

• antiqueprints.com
  • ancestryimages.com - Public domain images of old prints.

• Photos of UK and Ireland castles

• Castles of Wales
  • index of castles
  • index of persons

• Pathe News
  • British Pathe
  • youtube

Scotland

• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
• Historic Environment Scotland
• Listed buildings of Scotland

• Canmore (see site)
  • Buildings and archaeological sites in Scotland.
  • Browse map.

Ireland

• NIAH - National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie)
  • Building Survey
  • Browse map

• Irish Protected Structures (listed buildings)
  • Dublin city
  • South Dublin
  • DLR
  • Fingal

• archiseek.com (and search site)
  • Buildings of Ireland

• Dictionary of Irish Architects

• Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO)
  • DHO:Discovery (many online images of heritage, Creative Commons) (see "Browse")

• Landed Estates project. Formerly here.

• images:
  • irelandposters.com
  • oldirishimages.com

• CSO - Central Statistics Office
• OPW - Office of Public Works
  • Dúchas The Heritage Service
  • Dept. Arts, Heritage Heritage of Ireland

• NMI - National Museum of Ireland
• An Taisce
• Irish Script on Screen (digitised Irish manuscripts)

• Pictures of Irish churches
  • Catholic
  • Church of Ireland

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Reference - Family History

Royalty

• Wikipedia
  • Monarchy
  • Royal families
  • List of English monarchs
  • List of British monarchs

• soc.genealogy.medieval
  • site

• alt.talk.royalty
  • FAQ
  • British FAQ

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Peerage

Peerage - Seat in House of Lords. Head of family is peer. "Nobility" is families headed by a peer.

• Wikipedia categories
  • Nobility
  • Noble families
  • Peerage
  • Gentry

• Peerages of the United Kingdom
  • Peerage of England (up to 1707)
  • Peerage of Great Britain (1707-1801)
  • Peerage of the United Kingdom (1801 to date)

  • Peerage of Scotland (up to 1707)
  • Peerage of Ireland (up to 1922)

Sites

• thepeerage.com by Darryl Lundy

• Tudor Place by Jorge H. Castelli
  • Elizabethan Peerage

• A Who's Who of Tudor Women by Kathy Lynn Emerson

Ranking

Peerage in yellow:

Title	Other forms	Wife	Inherited	Seat in House of Lords	Still being created?
Duke	His Grace, Duc	Her Grace, Duchess	YES	YES	None outside Royal family since 1874 (Churchill was offered but declined in 1955)
Marquess	Lord ---, Marquis	Lady ---, Marchioness	YES	YES	Not since 1936
Earl	Lord ---, Count, Comte	Lady ---, Countess	YES	YES	Most recent one created 1984
Viscount	Lord ---, Vicomte	Lady ---, Viscountess	YES	YES	Most recent one created 1983
Baron	Lord ---	Lady ---, Baroness	YES	YES	Not since 1965
Life peer	Lord ---, Baron	Lady ---, Baroness	NO	YES	Being created all the time
Baronet	Sir ---, Bart.	Lady ---	YES	NO	Most recent one created 1991
Knight	Sir ---, Kt.	Lady ---	NO	NO	Being created all the time

European nobility

• European nobility
• European nobility by Herbert Stoyan
  • Genealogy of Charlemagne
  • Internet-Gotha
• Almanach de Gotha

German and Austrian nobility

• Explanation of German nobility

• German Wikipedia
• Translate from German to English
• German dictionaries
• German - English dictionary

• genealogy.net (German genealogy)
  • index by historical countries and regions
  • German Genealogy: Habsburg Empire

Scottish clans and tartans

• Scottish clans (see category)

• Tartans (see list)
• Wikimedia Commons
• Scottish Tartans Authority

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Families

• Noble families

• medieval English genealogy
• Baronage Press
  • The Feudal Herald
  • Moncreiffe's Family Records

• Tim Powys-Lybbe

• Wyndham Marsh.
  • His huge genealogy site intersects with Kerr and Gibbon, though he is not related to either.

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Researchers

Leo van de Pas

• Leo van de Pas.
• Ian Fettes
• Sadly, the great Leo van de Pas died in 2016.
• His site has been saved, and is maintained by Ian Fettes.

• genealogics.org (formerly here)
  • Charlemagne

• Plantagenet Cousins, by Ian Fettes and Leo van de Pas, 2007.

• Leo van de Pas used Ahnentafel numbering in some data.
  • Reverse Ahnentafel Parser

Search Leo van de Pas' site: Search

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Brian Tompsett

• Brian Tompsett
• Brian Tompsett's genealogy site is now gone:

  
  

  • Genealogy

  • The Genealogy of the British Royal Family
    • Victoria
    • my redirect to archive.org
    • surnames
    • sources

  • The Genealogy of the US Presidents
    • Bill Clinton
    • my redirect to archive.org
    • This is compiled from the work of Otto-Georg Richter, 1994.
    • His work is NOT based on [The Presidents, 1993].

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Paul O'Brien

• Paul O'Brien at MIC (UL).
• Twitter

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Paddy Waldron

• Paddy Waldron
• Family tree
• Formerly here.

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Stirnet

• Stirnet genealogy by Peter Barns-Graham

Search Stirnet: Search with Google.

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Politics

Irish politics

• Lords Lieutenant of Ireland
  • Historical list of Lords Lieutenant of Ireland (crown's deputy) (up to 1922) (also called Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Deputy of Ireland)
  • Historical list of Chief Secretaries for Ireland (no.2 post) (up to 1922)
  • Historical list of Under-Secretaries for Ireland (up to 1922)
  • Historical list of Governors-General (1922-37)
  • These refer to other posts:
    • Lord Justice of Ireland
    • Justiciar of Ireland

• Post-1922:
  • Historical list of heads of government
  • Historical list of heads of state

• Irish House Of Commons 1692-1800
  • Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre 1801)

Election results

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, RIA, 1978.

• Irish elections
  • pre-1922
  • 1922-49
  • 1949-date

• Detailed election results since 1918
  • people
  • general elections
  • by-elections

Dail and Seanad Debates

• oireachtas.ie
  • Current and historical lists of TDs and Senators
  • Dail Debates
  • Seanad Debates

Search Dail and Seanad debates: Search with Google.

NI politics

• NI elections
  • results since 1885
  • detailed results since 1992

UK politics

• hansard.parliament.uk
• hansard.millbanksystems.com (and search)

• Legislation.gov.uk
  • Private Acts of Parliament (e.g. divorces)

• Historical list of Prime Ministers

• UK elections
  • UK general elections

• History of Parliament online
  • Publications

US Politics and US Presidents

• List of US Presidents

• Genealogy of US Presidents

Popes and Saints

• The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) (see site)

• Historical list of Popes (and here)

• catholic-hierarchy.org

• Saints
  • List of Saints (and here)
  • Calendar of saints