Throughout 2016, the  four eastern Ontario Municipalities of Beckwith, Drummond/North Elmsley, Perth and Tay Valley  will be celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Canada’s Perth Military Settlement.  They want to welcome visitors interested in participating in this historic year.  

Please click on this link https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_E9HkoKVz1baVZyaGVQQXJnNENjQ0tjM05rR3ltRWRTSHdJ  for the letter and flyer with more information. 

County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Society is delighted to announce the release of a collection of 14,000 Civil marriage records for County Sligo. The records can be searched and viewed online through the www.rootsIreland.ie website. These records cover the time period from 1864 to 1920 and are the most recent collection of records Sligo has made available to researchers online.

The Civil Registrar Districts covered by these records are listed below:

District	Marriages
Aclare	1866-1920
Ballymote	1864-1920
Castleconnor	1864-1920
Easkey	1864-1920
Gurteen	1864-1920
Skreen	1864-1920
Sligo No. 1	1864-1920
Sligo No. 2	1864-1920
Tubbercurry	1864-1920

This set of records will be particularly valuable to researchers, who for one reason or another were unable to uncover a church marriage record for their ancestors. This may have occurred due to the records being lost, damaged, or as often happened, the marriage had taken place in a parish where church record keeping had not yet commenced

They will also be very useful to people whose ancestors married in the period 1900 to 1920, a period, which up until now, was not covered by our Sligo online records collection.

Even if your research has already uncovered a church marriage record, these records may still be of some interest to you because, if your ancestors married after 1864, they may have two records of marriage, namely a civil record and a church record. As each record may contain different details it is worth checking both.

A civil marriage record is particularly informative as it typically includes the date and place of marriage, the names of the parties, their ages (often just ‘Full’ or ‘Minor’), current marital status, occupations, addresses, fathers’ names and fathers’ occupations. It also usually includes the witnesses to the marriage.

The Civil Records of  Marriage are the official State records of marriages in Ireland.  Non-Catholic marriages were registered from April 1845, while universal registration of all births, marriages and deaths began in 1864.

The annual Tipperary Book Fair takes place this Sunday, 14th February from 2pm-6pm in Fethard Ballroom, Co. Tipperary. The Fair is not to be missed as there will be approximately 40 dealers selling books of every shape and size and price. The Fair is organized by the Fethard Historical Society. Terry Cunningham is available for info and any details you might need at:-

Ph 086-3905373 or
Email: bookfair@fethard.com or www.tipperariana.com

Dublin City Book Fair takes place on Sunday, 28th February in the Tara Towers Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin 4. We will have more details later.

There will also be a Book Fair in the Boyne Visitor Centre, Oldbridge, Co. Meath on Sunday, March 6th which is World Book Day. Keep an eye out for more info.

Eddie and Kay Murphy
lyonshillbooks@eircom.net
www.dublincitybookfair.com

February sees the first of three lectures to mark the centenary 1916-2016 by Offaly History.

There are many different views on 1916 and the National Volunteers, the Irish Volunteers, participation in the First World War, Home Rule, McNeill, Redmond, Pearse and so much more. Our aim is to look at the facts and have an appreciation of the sincerely held views of the participants and the consequences of the steps taken. In May and June we will visit sites and museums in Dublin to follow up on what we have discovered.

From our library a number of books will be on display on the 1916 period. We will also use our social media to illustrate different views and happenings. We hope all the lectures will be available as podcasts/and YouTube excerpts in conjunction with the Offaly Heritage Officer and the Offaly County Library.

8 February at 8pm at Offaly History Centre, Bury Quay, Tullamore. Brig. General Jim Cullen on ‘The military strategy of the 1916 Leaders’ – A Retrospective Military Analysis of the 1916 Rising.

A few days in April 1916 altered the course of Irish history. The lessons learned in this brief period had an important influence on the study of insurgency and counter-insurgency operations in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This will be an exciting story. We look forward to seeing you. There will be no countermand for this lecture! Admission €2 to members and €5 to non-members. This includes the tea and biscuits after the lecture and a chance to talk to the other Souls.

The lecture will briefly consider the leadership, military strategy and tactical measures of both sides of the conflict in Dublin during Easter Week. We will also see how the fog of war can quickly alter plans and operational assumptions when conflict begins.

Brig. General Cullen will look at two 1916 battle sites, i.e. the GPO and Mount Street Bridge, to examine tactics and how unanticipated circumstances affected plans. In closing, we will consider questions about measures employed by both sides.

Forthcoming Lectures

19 February – Edenderry History Seminar on ‘Exploring 1916 : a Midlands perspective’. Hosted by the Edenderry Historical Society at Oaklands Community College, Edenderry 7-10 p.m.

Speakers:
Michael Byrne, Tullamore and the 1916 Rising
Maria Gillen, Emily Weddall and 1916
Oliver Conlon, Frank Burke of Carbury and 1916
James Durney, Kildare and the 1916 Rising
Ciarán Reilly, ‘The year began with a bang’: Edenderry 1916

Response: Dr. Philip Brady will offer a response to the papers

Admission €10. All are welcome and refreshments will be served
Enquiries: edenderryhistory@gmail.com

14 March – The Tullamore Incident with Michael Byrne
20 March – 100th anniversary of the Tullamore Incident. Details of events to mark that date will be published in the March newsletter of Offaly History.
25 April – Offaly’s links to the 1916 Rising and its aftermath.
The talk will give an overview covering the years 1912-1920 and will look at the Rising from diverse perspectives in Offaly: Irish Parliamentary Party, Sinn Féin, Unionists, Irish Volunteers, RIC, British Army, civilians and the local press, with Philip McConway.

Please direct enquiries to:

OFFALY HISTORY Bury Quay, Tullamore, Co. Offaly. Telephone: 057-9321421 Opening hours 9-4.30 Mon-Friday Office and Family History Thursdays 7.30p.m.- 10.30 p.m. Library evening Web site: www.offalyhistory.com Email: info@offalyhistory.com

CONSERVING YOUR DUBLIN PERIOD HOUSE COURSE 2016

The Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council have assembled a team of conservation experts to present a series of talks on the history and significance of Dublin’s period houses and practical advice on their conservation. Attendance at the talks will prove invaluable for owners of all periods and types of houses, from the modest Edwardian artisan dwelling to the substantial red-bricks of the Victorian suburbs and the fine townhouses of our Georgian city squares, providing an A to Z for their care and conservation. These talks will also benefit building professionals and practitioners and are approved for CPD by the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Engineers Ireland, the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, the Irish Planning Institute and the Heritage Contractors.

Talks, which will commence on Tuesday 1st March 2016, and continue for 12 weeks, will take place from 1pm to 2pm, in the Helen Roe Theatre, RSAI, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.  The talks are priced at €15 each, payable at the door, or booked in advance at a reduced rate of €125 for all twelve talks.

The Irish National Monuments Service has just deployed a new public map viewer – Historic Environment Viewer. This viewer allows access to the records  of  National Monuments Service (SMR) and those of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH). See here: http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/

Explore the lives of men, women and children living through war and revolution and social changes that made modern Ireland

How do people experience war and revolution? How does political change, violence, total war, affect life in its most basic ways? Looking at Ireland through war and revolution, this course considers these and other questions about Irish life between 1912 and 1923.

The course looks beyond the familiar names and the famous faces – the traditional histories can tell us about them. Instead, it explores how the events that shaped the nature of modern Ireland – the Great War, the Easter Rising, the Irish war of independence and civil war – were experienced by the people who lived through them or in spite of them.

Through videos, assignments and discussions, through innovative approaches, this course introduces you to the history of Ireland in one of its most tumultuous periods. Considering the choices of those who fought in all sorts of ways for all sorts of causes, looking at the continuities of everyday life, this course allows us to question our broader understanding of these years.

Looking at the intricate and complex tapestry of lives lived, often in the midst of chaos, we might begin to ask different questions of these years. Do we understand war better if we consider the motivations that took a single soldier to the front, whether that front was in Flanders or Dublin? Does our sense of the entire period change when we examine general social and cultural trends or when we investigate their effect on private lives?

Find out more at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-history

We are pleased to announce that we have added over 51,000 new baptismal, marriage and burial records to our website. Name Denomination Location Type of record Years No. of entries Holy Cross Roman Catholic Belfast Baptisms 1918-1929 1,632 Holy Family Roman Catholic Belfast Baptisms 1895-1929 2,188 St. Malachy’s Roman Catholic Belfast Baptisms 1913-1923 2,287 St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Belfast Baptisms 1899-1929 10,024 Dundrum & Ballykinler Roman Catholic Co. Down Baptisms 1894-1920 627 Dundrum & Tyrella Roman Catholic Co. Down Baptisms 1921-1930 274 Holy Cross Roman Catholic Belfast Marriages 1908-1929 716 Holy Family Roman Catholic Belfast Marriages 1895-1929 684 Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Belfast Marriages 1890-1929 846 St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Belfast Marriages 1872-1930 1,632 St. Malachy’s Roman Catholic Belfast Marriages 1883-1929 3,014 St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Belfast Marriages 1896-1929 399 Dundrum & Ballykinler Roman Catholic Co. Down Marriages 1894-1920 151 Dundrum & Tyrella Roman Catholic Co. Down Marriages 1921-1929 52 Milltown Cemetery Roman Catholic Belfast Burials 1869-1895 27,232 The majority of these records relate to baptisms and marriages in Roman Catholic churches in Belfast from 1900 to 1930 which are not available online elsewhere. We have also added over 27,000 burial records from Milltown, the main Catholic cemetery in Belfast. These burial records include the name, age and address of the deceased and cover just the first volume of burial registers from 1869 when the Cemetery opened, to 1895. Catholic baptismal records can be very informative as often details of the individual’s later marriage – the date, place and name of spouse – were recorded alongside the baptismal entry. Places of marriage recorded in the St. Malachy’s baptismal register include: Brisbane, Australia; Cairo, Egypt; London, England; New Jersey, U.S.A. and Ottawa, Canada. Other later notes included details of ordinations. Priests also often made notes if a parent was deceased, not a Catholic or from outside the parish, for example: ‘Mother a native of Falcarragh, Co. Donegal’. These additional details can be of huge importance in searching for ancestors, for example, within the baptismal register of Dundrum and Ballykinler in County Down the priest noted the following information on two baptisms: ‘Father is a Protestant living at 40 Garwood St Belfast; baptised conditionally in Ballykinlar chapel having previously been baptised in a Protestant church in Belfast.’ ‘Father Presbyterian. Child received into Catholic Church at about 7 years old; both parents deceased, mother Catherine married a second time a Protestant named Nelson.’ Marriage records vary in detail. For example the priest at St. Joseph’s Church recorded the names and address of both parents of the bride and groom as well as the names and addresses of the witnesses from 1873; St. Vincent de Paul registers include this level of detail from 1913. Civil marriage registers never record the names of the mothers or the addresses of the parents and witnesses so these are invaluable details unavailable elsewhere. In particular if the bride or groom had moved to Belfast but were not born there, it can often be very challenging to discover their original place of birth but marriage registers that include the parents’ address can suggest a potential area to research. It should be noted that the addresses of the bride and groom referred to their address on the day of marriage, which was not always their usual residence. Often one spouse stayed somewhere other than their usual residence on the night before the wedding, to be close to the church. This is demonstrated in one register where the couple gave their address as Carrick Hill in Belfast but the priest noted ‘One night in Carrick Hill, immediately from Newry’. Often witnesses were found to be siblings of the bride or groom; knowing the addresses of the witnesses at the time of the marriage can help confirm these relationships. There are examples of additional notes written by some priests in cases where the parents of the bride and groom were not Catholic, were deceased or were living elsewhere: ‘Father of bridegroom in America’. Other details recorded included whether the bride or groom were converts or had any sort of blood relationship, which required a dispensation from the Church. This was something to which priests in certain parishes seemed to pay particular attention. Other pieces of information, not always available elsewhere may have been recorded, for example, a priest recorded that the groom had been ‘shot in Boer War’. Finally, many priests made a note to say which parishes they had notified about the marriage which can also suggest a possible place of birth, for example: ‘Notice sent to Barrow-in-Furness; notice sent to Lisburn’. You can search these records at www.down.rootsireland.ie with a current subscription.  Click Online Sources to see the full list of all records the supplied by the Ulster Historical Foundation to this website.

The Genealogy Event will take place on 2nd and 3rd September 2016 at Fitzgerald’s Woodlands House Hotel, Adare, Co. Limerick

Folklore, Irish Convicts, Landed Gentry & More!

The countdown begins to this September’s conference in Adare.  Each day the conference will begin daily at 9:30AM and run through to 4:20PM on each of the Friday and Saturday. With a combination of 30MIN and 40MIN talks, 18 talks are planned – so ample learning opportunities – with a number of social and cultural events as well.  A conference summary is below, with a more detailed program viewable here.

THURSDAY 1st SEPT: SPECIAL EVENTS

11:00AM – 2:00PM – (Interest List) Nenagh Castle & Town Tour, with Lunch

6:00PM – 8:00PM – Welcome Reception and Special Presentation by Limerick Genealogy
An evening reception with a special presentation by Limerick Genealogy: Roots of the Rising: Family Histories of Ned Daly and Con Colbert

SPECIAL EVENT: 5:30PM – 10:00PM – Country House History & Tour with Evening Dinner, Longueville House, Co. Cork

FRIDAY 2 SEPT: DAY 1: CONFERENCE

9:30AM – 10:00AM – Getting Started on Genealogy: Tracing the Irish Roots of Mary T Fisher, a lady’s companion in Boston in 1880s.
10:10AM – 10:50AM – Valuation Records
11:00AM – 11:40AM – Glasnevin Cemetery
11:50AM – 12:20PM – Shipping Records and their Usefulness When Searching for Your Ancestors (& Lunch A)
12:30PM – 1:00PM – Sources from Glucksman Library’s Special Collections, University of Limerick’ (& Lunch B)
1:10PM – 1:50PM – National Folklore Collection
2:00PM – 2:40PM – Immigration
2:50PM – 3:30PM – National Archives: Overview
3:50PM – 4:20PM – Creating Family Trees

SAT. 3 SEPT. DAY 2 – CONFERENCE

9:30AM – 10:00AM – Handwriting Interpretation
10:10AM – 10:50AM – National Archives: 19th Century Irish Convict Records
11:00AM – 11:40AM – Using atDNA to Connect Cousins & Break Through Brick Walls
11:50AM – 12:20PM – School Records
12:30PM – 1:00PM – Irish Genealogy Resources
1:10PM – 1:50PM – DNA and Researching Surnames
2:00PM – 2:40PM – Census Records
2:50PM – 3:30PM – Landed Gentry: Case Study
3:50PM – 4:20PM – Maps

SPECIAL EVENT: 6:15PM – 9:00PM – Whiskey History, Tasting and Casual Pub Fare, Michael Flannery’s

SUN. 4 SEPT: SPECIAL EVENT

11:00AM – 2:00PM (INTEREST LIST) NENAGH CASTLE & TOWN TOUR, WITH LUNCH

Conference tickets are now on sale with two special offers:

1) EARLY BIRD PRICING: Save up to 15% if purchased before 1 July &
2) EARLY BIRD TICKET & CONSULTATION PACKAGE: New this year purchase both your days’ conference ticket and a preferred rate for 1 HR consultation with Limerick Genealogy (Limerick or general genealogy research).

TICKETS NOW ON SALE (& PAYMENT OPTIONS)

Tickets are available online via the link below through the Evenbrite ticket system.  As in prior years PayPal is the secure method presented at time of purchase, however if you do not have a PayPal account, cannot recall your login, you do have an option to bypass the PayPal system.  This is how:

1. Once you select the ticket(s) and the “Order Now” button, you will be directed to a page to enter your contact details and a “Check Out with PayPal”.

2. When you have entered your email address, address select “Check out with PayPal”

3. This will move you to a screen that in small font underneath the PayPal sign on will state “Don’t have a PayPal account”.  Press this link and this will then grant you the opportunity to pay via credit card direct.

Alternatively you may contact info@bbnygroup.com for assistance, call into Limerick Genealogy at Lisssanalta House, Dooradoyle or contact them via research@limerickgenealogy.com

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Monaghan Genealogy has added the following records to its collection of data at www.monaghan.rootsireland.ie

Catholic Parish Records

Inishkeen Baptisms 1836-1849
Inniskeen Marriages 1839-1850 and 1876-1877

Church of Ireland Parish Records

Aghabog Marriages 1845-1915
Aughnamullen (Christchurch) Baptisms 1888-1901
Ballinode Marriages 1845-1852
Ballybay Baptisms 1867-1914
Kilmore Burials 1832-1915
Kilmore Marriages 1826-1844
Kilmore (Stranoodan) Baptisms 1861-1914
Rockcorry Marriages 1857-1916
Tehallan Baptisms 1806-1880

Presbyterian

Aughnamullen (Corlea) Baptisms 1882-1915
Aughnamullen (Corlea) Marriages 1845-1915
Muckno (2nd Castleblayney or Frankford) Marriages 1845-1912

Reformed Presbyterian

Tullycorbet (Creevagh) Marriages 1861-1912

Graveyard Records (Mixed denominations)

Ematris (Edergole Old Graveyard) Headstones 1574-2001
Errigal Truagh (Old Graveyard) Headstones 1670-1911

Civil registration

Kilmore Marriages 1864-1906

Vaccination Register

Donaghmoyne 1869-1884