Treasures on the WEB !

From Fianna

Fianna's Favorites (many were on the guide page before)

over 5,000 links to ships passenger lists, cemeteries, 
censuses & military records for UK & Ireland, USA,
Europe, Canada, Australia & NZ

Online Genealogy Library is another source of folks who'll do lookups.

LDS's FAMILYSEARCH SITE. Through its "Custom Search" you can access the Family History Library Catalog, search the International Genealogical Index for a specific event and year, or search Ancestral File using any combination birth year, christening year, marriage year, death year, or Ancestral File number. And see Fianna's helps for searching this site and/or at your local FHC!

Vocal Local ie

FREE Parish Locator program (approx 1.1mb) which can be downloaded and used totally free of charge. Over 15,000 parishes are listed in the United Kingdom and Ireland. For each parish the county and the map reference is given. Counties are identified using Chapman's county codes.

If you've ever wondered about a site's credibility sometimes it helps to find out who has the domain name for a particular website (plus name, address and phone number). You can go to the Whois Web Directory to find out!

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Movement A movement, Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, has begun. The goal is to enlist volunteers to do look-ups, etc. in the area where they live for family history researchers in other areas.

Helplist for Ireland

**Births, Deaths, and Marriages Exchange for Ireland **
The goal of the Ireland** Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange is to provide to genealogists a free resource for sharing information about details contained on birth, death and marriage certificates registered in Ireland**.
Remember that for our purposes the word certificate includes, but not limited to:

certified copies
photographic or Xerox copies
inspections of birth, death and marriage registrations

Banks and other institutions build small biographical files on their "members", at least in areas that seem necessary to help them identify those whose money they care for. While today's privacy laws rightly keep that information from the general public, in some cases it is possible to see some of these "historical" files on our ancestors. One such set of financial/biographical records is the file of depositors at the Emigrant Savings Bank in New York. Copies of the original records are on file in various libraries, including the New York Public Library and the Huntington Historical Society.

While the original file contains upwards of 70,000 names, the online index only contains about 3,000 names to date. The online entries include each person's full name (including variants), date and place of birth, contemporary residence, occupation, relatives, date of arrival in the United State, the name of the ship, and the bank account information. In some cases, even Civil War service information is given, including regimental and company data.

Also, the NY Public Library has information on this resource.

This is one of the best places to rent microfilm/fiche to use in your own place on your own equipment. There's a name change and a new web site, but you'll happily recognize it when you arrive!

"Our new website New England Ancestors has an online searchable database for the entire collection of the Circulating Library. This site is available to members and non-members alike. Click on Borrow a book found under the heading Library Index. When you have your search result, click on the title and the call number will appear. To ensure your selection is in the Circulating Library, look for the words "also loan" following the call number."

This is quite interesting:

"I believe we here at GoIreland.com have a service which may be of great interest to you. As an extension to our own genealogical resources, we are providing, in conjunction with the Irish Family History Foundation, a free searchable database of Irish surnames. It will offer a brief political, social and geographical history of the most popular Irish surnames."

Together, Marthe Arends and Karen Clifford have written a total of 45 informative self-paced genealogy lessons, with topics ranging from "Genealogy Data Online" to "Immigration Passenger Lists."

Irish Family History for a fee they obtain Irish certificates.

Digging Up Irish Roots - Family Chronicle Article


GenFindit
All you have to do is give them the year that relates to which ever transcript you want, the names of the parties involved, and if you can, the reference numbers from the films that are at the local LDS centres. They will send back a photostat of the transcript within a couple of weeks. This saves a lot of hassle and gives you all the information you need. You may also pay by credit card in any currency. All record requests cost AUS$18 or equivalent (approx US$11.50, NZ$21 . Approximately Please allow for slight variations due to daily fluctuations in currency.



The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1999 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author.

Searching for Ancestors on Ancestry.com just got easier. The advanced search page on Ancestry.com has been redesigned to give users more control. Before today the advanced search allowed users to search by given name, surname, and keyword. Searches could be made more specific by setting the proximity search feature, limiting how close keywords could appear together, by specifying a geographic location, and/or by searching only a specific type of record.

As the number of databases on Ancestry grows ever larger, the need for researchers to focus their searching also increases. To this end, the redesigned search page allows users to:

• Filter searches by a date range and by Soundex coding ~ Keep track of new databases with a posted notice of features and database additions
• Browse the available databases by State, Country, and record type
• Browse the Internet with GenPageFinder, Ancestry's genealogy- specific search engine.

You can perform advanced searches at: http://www.ancestry.com/advsearch.htm

You can also click on "Advanced" just below the "Search" button on the home page, or select "Search Center" on the menu just below the Ancestry graphic at the top of the page.

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GenPageFinder is now available on Ancestry.com. GenPageFinder also appears as part of the Ancestry.com GlobalSearch results. Some of the pages GenPageFinder will find are quite large. If your keywords are not immediately visible on the page GenPageFinder finds for you, try pressing Ctrl F and entering your keywords again. This should take you to the spot on the page where your keywords appear.

Whatever your research interests and whatever searching you've already done, chances are that a search on GenPageFinder will yield fruitful new sources.

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The Irish At Home and Abroad web site has been updated with many new features that are designed to help the family historian tracing Irish roots. These include a 1999 listing of parish registers and vestry minutes of the Church of Ireland available in Dublin; an on-line database of an 1803 agricultural census of County Antrim; a database of the Irish origins given in the 1860 census of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; updated addresses for Irish repositories and heritage centres. And their links are AWESOME!

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Global Gazette has a monthly colum called IRISH ORIGINS which is interesting and often helpful.