Irish Roots
2013 Number 3
NEWS
Kerry Genealogy Road Show
Officially Launched As Part Of The
Kerry Gathering Programme
A unique project and the first of its kind
in Ireland, the Kerry Genealogy Road
Show was recently launched in Killarney,
Co. Kerry, as part of The Gathering
Ireland 2013.
The Kerry Genealogy Road Show is a freestanding mobile genealogy unit which
will exhibit at 25 selected events around
County Kerry. Professional genealogists
will assist visitors with their genealogy
queries and help them trace their family
trees. The mobile unit will also have
free “live” online search facilities which
will provide access to genealogical
sources including Census Returns, Tithe
Applotment Books, Griffiths Valuation,
Civil Birth, Death and Marriage Records,
Church Baptism and Marriage Records
and others.
The genealogists will provide general
information about the principal Kerry
families/family names, and their origins
and distribution, including famous
family members. There will also be an
exhibition on “finding your Kerry /Irish
ancestors”. Detailed information can be
obtained from [email protected].
Tel: +353 87 050 5296. www.ancestor.ie.
70,000 Limerick Cemetery Burial
Records Go Online
Staff from Limerick City Archives in
conjunction with the History Department
of Mary Immaculate
College of
Education, have spent the past two years
manually transcribing thousands of
handwritten records of those buried at
Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery between
1855 and 2008.
The records include the name, age, address
and in many cases, the cause of death of
those buried in the 164-year-old cemetery.
See www.limerickcity.ie/Archives for
further details.
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Minister of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan with John Hamrock of
Ancestor Network at the launch of the Kerry Genealogy Road Show. Also in attendance were
County Kerry local events organisers, tourism groups, local historians, genealogists, and
visitors from the Irish Diaspora.
CAGI To Provide Genealogy
Service At The National Archives
Of Ireland
CAGI - the new Consortium of
Accredited Genealogists, Ireland - has
won the contract to provide the National
Archives of Ireland’s Genealogy Service
(GS) for the next twelve months. For
the consortium members it is a return
to familiar ground, as each worked in
the GS during the time it was operated
directly by the Association of Professional
Genealogists in Ireland (APGI).
From its establishment in 2003 the
Genealogy Service has provided expert
advice to visitors at the National
Archives in Dublin, free of charge.
Each year it has guided thousands of
family historians, overseas visitors and
Irish residents alike, in doing their own
research. It gives them time-saving tips
and provided them with a strategy to fit
their own particular family. In so doing,
it has played a central role in enhancing
the research experience for all visitors.
Previously Unseen Clare Historical
Collections To Be Digitised
Clare County Library’s entire archival
collection dating back to the early 18th
century is to be digitised and made
publicly available online.
The finished project will feature a
searchable database of previously unseen
historical collections profiling Ireland’s
turbulent history from the pre-famine
settlements and granting of lands in
County Clare, the famine and its evictions,
the economic depression in the late 19th
century and the ‘land war’ agitation.
Amongst the collections being digitised
are the Roger Casement papers (19131916), The Sampson Collection (1790-1961)
and the Registers of Electors from 1858.
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According to Rene Franklin, Clare
County Archivist:
“This
massive
digitisation project to be undertaken by
the County Archives service over the
next two years will unlock the riches of
our archival collections by making them
available online to users throughout
Ireland and around the world. The
larger
collections
hold
immense
potential for researchers, historians
and genealogists alike and display indepth and as yet unseen information.”
The digitised archival material will be
made available through the Clare County
Archive’s webpage, findmypast.ie and
Europeana, Europe’s digital library,
archive and museum www.europeana.eu.
Genealogy Course For Monaghan
Diaspora Visiting From Abroa d
Announced
A unique Monaghan-focused Family
History initiative is being organised
as part of The Gathering 2013. It will
provide two 4-day training courses
within the county for tourists tracing
their Monaghan ancestors. The
project is entitled ‘County Monaghan
Genealogy - home to the little hills’. It
will give participants information on
the genealogical sources available, the
cultural history of County Monaghan
and the diversity of origin of its people.
The courses will take place in North
Monaghan from Monday to Thursday,
14-17 October, and in Carrickmacross
from Monday to Thursday, 21-24
October. The courses are designed for
individuals and groups with Monaghan
ancestry living overseas and members of
Irish societies and social clubs abroad.
Contact:- [email protected]
Tel: +353 87 0505296,
Twitter: @ancestornetwork,
www.facebook.com/MonaghanGenealogyTraining.