Irish History - A New Resource

Today I stumbled across a new Irish History resource.

dúchas.ie is a project to digitize the National Folklore Collection of Ireland, one of the largest folklore collections in the world. Material from nine counties in the Schools’ Collection is available there now. 

New material is being added on a phased basis.

a snip of some examples from the website

http://www.duchas.ie/en

I is for ......

Irish research

Irish research has always frustrated me but thankfully so much more is now becoming available online.

The biggest problem I've had with my Irish ancestry is common surnames and the fact that Australian records usually only give county names not townlands.  

The only way I found the name of the townland for my great great grandmother was because one of her brothers went on from Australia to New Zealand.  His New Zealand death certificate gave both county and townland names.

One of my favourite online resources for Irish research is 

Ireland Genealogy Project &
Ireland Genealogy Project Archives

http://www.igp-web.com/

And for the month of July the Irish Family History Foundation is introducing a change to its system for viewing pages of search results to allow you to view more search result pages. 

There are also some great new Facebook groups for specific Irish Counties genealogy.  

These are closed groups so you need to ask to join.  

There are docs that you can add your surname interests to and everyone is very helpful and friendly.

Thanks to Christina Hunt the following is a list of Irish counties with a Facebook page.

Cavan

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cavangenealogy/

Clare

https://www.facebook.com/groups/countyclare/

Cork

https://www.facebook.com/groups/corkgenealogicalsociety/

Dublin

https://www.facebook.com/groups/dublingenealogy/

Limerick

https://www.facebook.com/groups/limerickgenealogy/

Longford

https://www.facebook.com/groups/longford/

Tipperary

https://www.facebook.com/groups/tipperary/

Wexford

https://www.facebook.com/groups/countywexford/

Wicklow

https://www.facebook.com/groups/wicklow/

 "Family History Through the Alphabet challenge" introduced by Gould 

 My family history through the alphabet list