The British Library Newspapers collection contains more than 160 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries Britain:
British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900. Sample titles: Illustrated Police News, Morning Chronicle, the Examiner.
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900. Sample titles: The Standard, the Morning Post.
British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950. Sample titles: Leeds Intelligencer, Northampton Mercury, the Westmoreland Gazette.
British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950. Sample titles: Stamford Mercury, the Scots Magazine, Dundee Courier.
British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950. Sample title: Coventry Herald
British Library Newspapers, Part VI: Ireland 1783-1950. Sample title: The Galway Press
This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Coverage includes famines and independence, issues around migration, along with the impact of the first world war.
Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
The National Archives of Ireland has microfilm copies of the registers for most Roman Catholic parishes in Ireland and there is a list here. Digital copies of microfilm now available.
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The surviving Church of Ireland parish registers remain with the parishes and at the Representative Church Body Library and a small number have been digitised.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names including: Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites. Patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free account or to sign into their existing account to continue using all the free expanded benefits.
Ask About Ireland provides free access to the details and original pages from the Griffith's Valuation. The Primary Valuation was the first full-scale valuation of property in Ireland. It was overseen by Richard Griffith and published between 1847 and 1864. It is one of the most important surviving 19th century genealogical sources.
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This site provides an online index to records relating to transportation from Ireland to Australia covering the period from 1788 to 1868. Results of searches contain details such as name, age, crime, sentence, and the ship on which the convict was transported. Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed. This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia and are sometimes known as "The Irish Gift".
Use the online index on the National Archive of Ireland’s website to find a name and a reference and a page number, then use the digitised copies of the microfilm here to find further information if it is available. Held by the National Archives of Ireland. As filmed by the AJCP.
This database contains details of Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1788 - 1849. This website is hosted by Peter Mayberry.
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Includes Church records of Baptism, Marriages and Deaths. These records are comprised of Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland Records from Counties Carlow, Cork, Kerry and Dublin City. Hosted by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport.
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Census returns for the 19th century, 1901 and 1911, the Tithe Applotment Books, will calendars and Soldiers Wills can be searched on the National Archives of Ireland's genealogy website and more.
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Search a unique online database of 20 Million Irish family history records including Birth, Death, Marriage and Gravestone records the majority of which are only available on this website and cannot be found online elsewhere. Register to do 100 free searches of the index. To view a records details you will need to purchase credit vouchers from the website.
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The Tipperary Studies digitisation project aims to make available online a range of sources, both historical and genealogical, which are part of the fabric which makes up the history of Tipperary.
Many of these documents are unique to Tipperary Studies and one of the aims of the project is to make these sources available to everyone, free of charge, whether you reside within the county of Tipperary or in any part of Ireland or the far flung reaches of the world.
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"The Tithe Applotment Books are a vital source for genealogical research for the pre-Famine period, given the loss of the 1821-51 Census records. They were compiled between 1823 and 1837 in order to determine the amount which occupiers of agricultural holdings over one acre should pay in tithes to the Church of Ireland (the main Protestant church and the church established by the State until its dis-establishment in 1871)"
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Calendar (index) of Wills and Administration 1858-1920. Up to 1917, the Calendars cover the whole of Ireland, but since 1918 they cover only the 26 counties in the Republic. You can search pdfs for those from 1922 to 1982 on the main National Archives website.
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