24 May, 2 PM, Online About this Event John Montague is giving a talk online next Tuesday 24th May at 14.00 hrs about the recent Dublin Transcription Project, called the "Transcribathon", which took place from 28 March to 1 April...
Menu
Irish Family History Society
Connecting People With Their Irish Roots
IFHS on Twitter
Latest News
Next Event
There are no upcoming events.
Our Latest Publication
Our new Magazine is out! Click on the picuture to buy.
Members' Login
Just outside Castlepollard in Westmeath, this magnificent Gothic revival Castle has been home to the Pakenhams, Earls of Longford, for over 370 years. Tullynally Castle - courtesy www.tullynallycastle.ie The family began as adventurers under Charles II but for the last...
28 April, 6 PM, via Zoom About this Event The National Archives is delighted to announce the third talk in our evening lecture series for 2022. Entitled ‘Researching your Church of Ireland ancestors’, the lecture will be given by professional...
IFHS has just published its first News Sheet of 2022. It is available for downloading (PDF format) from the Member's Section of this website.
Apr 20 @ 13:10 The online talk is aimed at novice users of its facilities. The talk is free, but places must be booked in advance through its website www.nli.ie
The Irish Family History Magazine, Volume 37 has just been printed. With lots of articles covering various topics, as you can see below. Members will receive a copy, but it is also for sale for only €8 (plus P&P) from...
Mar 26 @ 14:00 – 16:30 We are pleased to announce the date for the next IFHS AGM, followed by a lecture on “The Registry of Deeds and its collections” by Ellen Murphy . Although most COVID restrictions have now...
The National Archives is starting its evening lecture series for 2022 on 27th January, at 6 PM. Entitled ‘Researching your Roman Catholic ancestors’, this online lecture will be given by professional genealogist Joan Sharkey (member of Accredited Genealogists Ireland) and...
In partnership with The National Archives, the 1921 Census of England & Wales will be published exclusively online at Findmypast early next year.
We wish our members all the best for Christmas and the New Year and hope that some element of normality will soon return to our lives. As the last activity of the year, we have just published in the Members'...
Find my past https://www.findmypast.ie/ is offering 25% discounts on selected memberships. Offer end date: Sunday 28th November 2021 Log into the members' section or become a member of IFHS (€25 per year; https://ifhs.ie/membership-join-2/) and we will share the promo code...
The IFHS will hold its next Zoom lecture on 20 November. The lecture will be given by John Grenham. John Grenham is a very well-known Irish Genealogist. He had a column in The Irish Times newspaper for years on "Irish...
The Genealogy and Family History experience is back in the RDS! The show will provide access to 30 presentations on both genetic & general genealogy to assist you in tracing your Irish roots. Block the dates in your diary: 22-24th...
On 4 September 2021, the IFHS continued its series of lectures via Zoom. Our own Joan Sharkey, Honorary Treasurer of the Society, and a Member of AGI had prepared a detailed and very informative presentation on the Irish Roman Catholic...
“Family Tree Memory Keeper” is a paperback from the editors of “Family Tree Magazine”. Produced in 2013, it is a workbook which makes it easy to record and organise your family history. It will help you keep track of basic...
RootsTech 2022, the annual Genealogy Conference will take place from 3 – 5 March, 2022. As in 2021, it will be fully virtual and free of charge. The Conference, linked to the Family Search website operated by the Church of...
One of the objectives of the Irish Family History Society is to promote communication amongst its members, to enable them to exchange ideas, share advice, ask questions, request assistance, etc. Apart from its meetings, up to now, there were two...
Our members have just received the second IFHS News Sheet of 2021. It contains a Chairperson's Report, an update on the re-opening of Irish Archives and Libraries, an overview of new resources published on various free and subscription websites, as...
The 2021 AGM will be held on 29th May at 12 noon on Zoom Members who wish to attend should email noelj96@gmail.com and a Zoom link will be sent a few days before.
Hello to all our members from Noel chairperson IFHS and the members of the IFHS committee- Lucinda, Joan, Roy and Dan. Hope you are keeping well and safe during these unprecedented times. We were sorry not to have our AGM...
There is a social history project currently being undertaken on the Volkswagen Beetle. A book is being written that will encompass not just the historical facts and figures around the assembly and distribution of VWs but also the social history...
FMP have introduced three new subscriptions. There will be three types of subscriptions - Starter, Plus and Pro. These will cater for the different stages of research. The World subscription will now become Pro and the 1939 Register will be...
All talks are free to attend and places offered on a first-come-first-served basis Friday 19 October 12 noon Delving into Northern Ireland family and local history: Getting started online and at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) By...
FREE EVENT but booking essential on eventbrite.ie. Search Local Studies & Local History Societies. 10.30am Registration. Tea and Coffee 11.00am Welcome to dlr LexIcon. Marian Thérèse Keyes, Senior Executive Librarian 11.05am Introduction with Pádraig Laffan Pádraig Laffan is the Chairperson...
FindMyPast is a British company with an Irish website which holds more Irish records than any other website. Living DNA is also a British company so their partnership will help people with British and Irish roots. Living DNA tests are...
Blaine Bettinger has launched a website to aid interpretation of DNA results. This will include webinars and courses and also educational material. There is a subscription involved. Blaine Bettinger has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and is author of the books Guide to...
University College Cork (UCC) hosted the National Famine Commemoration on the 12 May 2018 attended by President Higgins and hosted by An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney. Part of this commemoration included the launch of the Great Famine...
We have now uploaded the digitised journals 1985 to 2011 in the Members’ Area under ‘Journals Archive’. Thank you for your patience as we are still amending/adding to our new website.
MyHeritage has launched a new pro bono initiative to help adoptees and their birth families reunite through genetic testing. MyHeritage are providing 15,000 MyHeritage DNA kits, worth more than one million dollars, for free, to eligible participants. See here for...
The RCBL has issued new guidelines for copying and transcribing Church of Ireland parish records and headstone inscriptions. Please refer to their guidelines here
Duty Librarian can be contacted at info@nli.ie and the Duty Archivist on mqueries@nli.ie , Tuesday–Friday, from 9.30-5pm. Opening Hours The Main and Manuscripts Reading Rooms are open from 9.30am – 7.45 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday 9.30am – 4.45pm Thursday...
FindMyPast have put up indexes of townlands and parishes in Ireland from 1851 to 1911. In addition to townlands and parishes, details of baronies and electoral divisions in Ireland for a given year. See Indexes To The Townlands and Parishes 1851-1911
A series of digitally restored photographs of Ireland from the late 1800s to the 1950s has been released online by Ancestry as part of the UK Historical Photographs and Prints 1704 - 1989. See UK, Historical Photographs and Prints, 1704 -...
This Roadshow brings together Irish emigrants, their descendants and members of their communities to share family memories and stories of coming from Ireland to North America, especially during the period of the Great Famine. See Great Famine Voices Roadshow
Paperback 162pp Price Not Stated No ISBN Reference Published by Federation of Local History Societies www.localhistory.ie Local history can be a useful aid in our detective work into the lives of our forebears. The latest Annual Journal of the Federation...
Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2 on Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13.00-14.00 The celebration will include three short talks: 1.10 Welcome from Ardmhéara Micheál Mac Donncha 1.20 Dr Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh In Focus: The Irish Folklore Commission Collection...
Paperback and eBook 240pp Price US $26.99; CAN €33.99 (€28.00) Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-4403-4880-8 ISBN-10: 1-4403-4880-4 By Claire Santry Published by Family Tree Books, Cincinnati, Ohio www:shopfamilytree.com Claire Santry is a well-known figure in Irish genealogy circles. She hosts the...
FindMyPast have added new databases for Civil Registers Indexes for births and marriages which link to birth and marriage records on Irish Genealogy. You will need an account but not a subscription to access these databases. See FindMyPastFridays blog.
Compiled and edited by Kiara Gregory (#2552) CD-ROM. Published by Eneclann. www.eneclann.ie ISBN: 978-1-905118-07-4 Price: €29.90 including VAT Over 200,000 Irish men served in the British armed forces during WWI. Soldiers sent to the front were encouraged to write their last will...
The uprising of 1798 and the 1916 rebellion are the two most significant revolutionary developments to have taken place in the history of Ireland over the last two hundred years or so. There is a wealth of recorded detail with...
This CD covers the publications from Vol., no. 1 1937 to Vol. 8 no.4, published 1993. The editorial in the very first issue explains that there was a need for a society devoted exclusively to Irish genealogy and formed with...
Twenty-five years work went into recording 67,000 people from over 500 cemetery sites around the country. This reproduction of the well-known memorials will add a new dimension to genealogy for researchers of Irish ancestors especially those living abroad. This painstaking...
Finding your Ancestors in Kerry Kay Caball ISBN 978-1-907990-08-3 €13.00 Pages 160 Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin www.flyleaf.ie This is another family history research guide in the excellent series of tracing your county ancestors. The author’s website www.mykerryancestors.com tells us that Kay Caball...
Tom Burnell Editor Hardcopy and eBook Pages 252 Cost £19.99 ISBN 978 1 47382 129 0 Tom Burnell, Irish Army veteran of the ‘Troubles’ and historian had edited this book of dispatches from the front for the months of August–December...
David C A Wilkins Paperback Published privately in the UK with DVD Pages 283 ISBN 978-0-9562080-0-2 David C A Wilkins is based in Stockport, Cheshire, UK and is a member of the Irish Family History Society. His family heritage is...
By Dan Waddell Hard Cover, Paper Back and eBook. ISBN 978 1 84990 824 5 Pages 191 Cost £9.99 Publisher BBC Books, Random House Group, 2014 This book is the essential pocket guide to tracing your family history. 2014 is...
First published 2003 Paperback and eBook 160 pages. Cost €13 ISBN 978-1-90799006-9 By Margaret Franklin Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin (www.flyleaf.ie) Ten years after its first publication this book has been updated and is testimony to Limerick’s unique history. The...
Paperback and eBook 362 pages Cost £16.99 ISBN 9-781-4729-0293-1 By David Annal and Peter Christian Published by Bloomsbury London First published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, now fully revised and updated to...
“If you didn’t write it down and tell somebody about it, it didn’t happen” Guy Cosmolmagno S.J. Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory The author, Colin Thom, obviously subscribes to this dictum, as it has taken thirty five years,...
Paperback, 224 pp Price Stg £10 (approx. €12) ISBN 978 0 9552399 7 7 By R. Blatchford & E. Blatchford. Published by Robert Blatchford Publishing Ltd, York, UK www.genealogical.co.uk Following on the success of The Irish Family and Local History Handbook,...
Paperback, 160 pp Price €13 ISBN 978 1 907990 04 5 By James G. Ryan. Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin www.flyleaf.ie The Foreword tells us how Sligo is a maritime county in the Province of Connacht and that in the 19...
Paperback, 160 pp Price €13 ISBN 978 1 907990 03 85 By Gretta Connell. Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin www.flyleaf.ie Westmeath is often referred to as the "Lake County". It is a prosperous midland county whose main towns are Athlone and...
Paperback, 162 pp Price €13 ISBN 978 1 907990 01 4 By Tony McCarthy & Tim Cadogan Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin www.flyleaf.ie The first edition of this book was published in 1998. In the Preface to the Second Edition the...
Paperback 136 pp Price Aus$ 35 €18 plus P&P. ISBN 1 876383 11 9 By G. Rex Meyer (#2105) 58/14 Victoria Road, Pennant Hills. NSW 2120 Australia Rev. Robert Jacob Meyer was born in Wexford Town, became a Methodist Minister...
Paperback 229 pp Price Aus $20 €15 plus P&P. ISBN 1 876383 12 7 By G. Rex Meyer (#2105) 58/14 Victoria Road, Pennant Hills. NSW 2120 Australia This book tells the life stories of Captain William Boyle Meyer, Merchant Seaman...
Paperback, 224 pp Price Stg £12 (approx. €10) ISBN 978 0 9552399 5 3 By R. Blatchford & E. Blatchford. Published by Robert Blatchford Publishing Ltd, York, UK www.genealogical.co.uk Many will be familiar with The Family and Local History Handbook published for the...
By Helen Meehan and Godfrey Duffy ISBN 978-0-9539974-9-7 Published by Flyleaf Press www.flyleaf.ie Price €13 plus p&p County Donegal is interesting in the fact that it is the most northerly county on the island of Ireland but its jurisdiction is in...
By Gardiner S. Mitchell, Published by YES Publications £16.90 First published 1991 2nd. Publication 2008 This book does "exactly as it says on the tin". It contains the war experiences of a small number of combatants from Ulster, mainly the...
By Ian Maxwell, Published by How To Books, Oxford, England. www.howtobooks.co.uk Price Stg.£ 9.99 ISBN 978 1 84528 234 9 This production follows the usual genealogical style of layout which has been used effectively in the past. The book contains...
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our Committee Member, Margaret Loftus.
The Society has started a closed group for members only. Our old Facebook page will remain open for the time being but nothing will be posted to it. If you wish to join, please insert ‘Irish Family History Society Members’...
The Society has started a closed group for members only. Our old Facebook page will remain open for the time being but nothing will be posted to it. If you wish to join, please insert ‘Irish Family History Society Members’...
There is a campaign to name the future National Children’s Hospital after Dr Kathleen Lynn. For details see: https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/children-s-hospital-to-be-named-after-dr-kathleen-lynn
A digital reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland building and its collections has been launched as part of the Centenary commemorations. The building and its contents were destroyed during the Irish Civil War. See https://beyond2022.ie/
Published by Irish Roots Media Ltd., Blackrock, Blessington, Co. Wicklow. The Society recently received the second edition of this publication produced by Irish Roots Media Ltd. under the editorship of Maureen Phibbs and it displays an obvious effort to maintain...
Compiled by Maria Clancy Published by Linden Publishing Company. The geographical location of this sept is in the northeastern area of Co. Sligo stretching into parts of Co. Leitrim in the region of Lough Gill. The Glancy/Clancy sept claim to...
By John Hamrock Published by Flyleaf Press The initial interesting fact to appear in this book is the population figures for the county as they changed over the last century and a half. The total for 1841 was 253,591, which slipped...
by Stuart A. Raymond Published by The Federation of Family History Societies. Family history has become much easier to research in the last few years. Some of the most important sources are now available at the click of a mouse...
by Phil Tomaselli Published by The Federation of Family History Societies. The Second World War was long, complex and brutal. People living between the years 1939 to 1945 played a part in this great event. Researching ancestors who took part...
by Keith Gregson Published by The Federation of Family history Societies Britain's naval power, known as "The wooden wall", kept the country free from invasion by the French for twenty years from 1793. Each of these wooden ships was manned...
Volume 22, 2006 Richard Flatman (editor); published by Irish Family History Society, PO Box 36, Naas, County Kildare, Ireland; e-mail: info@ifhs.ie; 2006; 128 pages. The annual IFHS parson's egg dropped in the letter box at the latter end of 2006. Like...
By Homan Potterton Published 2006 by Choice publishing Mayoralty Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth. Selling at Euro 15 and available also from: www.bookwise.ie This publication is the genealogy of the Potterton family of Co. Meath who came to Ireland from Yorkshire in...
Edited by Raymond Gillespie and Alison O'Keefe. Published by the Representative Church Body Library. The register, which covers a mere seventeen years, is in essence a loose social history of a parish in a young though not always healthy town....
Published by The Ulster Historical Foundation. The Church of Ireland diocese of Clogher consists of the six deaneries of Clogher, Clones, Enniskillen, Kesh, Kilskeery and Monaghan. The book begins with lists containing names of bishops, deans, chancellors, precentors, prebendaries, canons...
By Peter Sexton. This publication has only just come to hand even though it was first published in 2001. The author although Cork born became an active member of St. Margarets parish when he moved to Dublin after the second...
Right away the reader will notice the change in cover style and the increase in bulk of this latest edition. Grenham has been a major player in the field of family history research since the publication of the first edition...
The latest issue of the Journal of the Irish Family History Society, that for the year 2005, with its 128 pages and twenty articles, as usual, provides interesting reading. This year, it is a bit light on source material. Most...
Stuart McGee Membership No. 2318, England, writes: Following the uploading of the parish records for St Michan's & the Pro-Cathedral by Irish Genealogy my original query from 2009 needs editing/updating to that shown below: After 16 years, I am still...
Mr. Peter R B Davies Membership No. 923, England, writes: Geoffrey Paul Davies of Kentstown, Co. Galway, son of Netterville Davies, born about 1812 married Honora Fletcher abt. 1839. This is deduced from various death certificates in Australia. Where and...
Contact Us
Legal
-
THE IRISH FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
42 Mount Eagle Grove, Leopardstown Heights, D18 C8K3, Dublin, Ireland
Designed by KOS IT SERVICES.