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Best Irish Genealogy Databases for Researching Your Ancestors

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11. National Archives – Famine Irish Collection

The U.S. National Archives has two online databases of information on immigrants who came to America from Ireland during the Irish famine, covering the years 1846 to 1851. The "Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File" has 605,596 records of passengers arriving in New York, about 70% of whom came from Ireland. The second database, "List of Ships that Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine," gives background detail on the ships that brought them over, including the total number of passengers. FreeMore »

12. Fianna Guide to Irish Genealogy


In addition to excellent tutorials and guides for researching ancestry in Ireland Fianna also offers transcriptions from a variety of primary documents and records. FreeMore »

13. Irish War Memorials

This beautiful site presents an inventory of war memorials in Ireland, along with inscriptions, photographs and other details of each memorial. You can browse by location or war, or search by surname. FreeMore »

14. "Missing Friends" Irish Advertisements in the Boston Pilot


This free collection from Boston College includes the names of approximately 100,000 Irish immigrants and their family members contained in nearly 40,000 "Missing Friends" advertisements which appeared in the Boston "Pilot" between October 1831 and October 1921. Details about each missing Irish immigrant may vary, including such items as the county and parish of their birth, when they left Ireland, the believed port of arrival in North America, their occupation, and a range of other personal information. FreeMore »

15. Northern Ireland Will Calendars

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland hosts a fully searchable index to the will calendar entries for the three District Probate Registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry, covering the periods 1858-1919 and 1922-1943 and part of 1921. Digitized images of full will entries 1858-1900 are also available, with the rest to come. FreeMore »

16. The Irish Genealogist Names Index and Database


The Irish Genealogist (TIG), the journal of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS), has been published annually since 1937 with Irish family histories, pedigrees, leases, memorial inscriptions, deeds, newspaper extracts and transcripts of parish registers, voters lists, census substitutes, wills, letters, family bibles, rentals and militia & army rolls. IRGS's genealogy database allows you to search the free online names index to TIG (over a quarter of a million names). Scanned images of the journal’s articles are now being added and linked, with volume 10 of TIG now online (covering the years 1998–2001). Additional images will continue to be added.More »

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