Drawing your Irish Family Tree Lorna Moloney Clans

Drawing your Irish Family Tree Lorna Moloney Clans and Surnames

The Strategies 1. START WITH YOURSELF 2. Talk to your existing relatives 3. Move backwards generation by generation 4. Devise a research plan 5. Mapping your resources & sources

Exercise – Free writing Please write as much as possible in 7 minutes on your nearest ancestors – starting with yourself Put this in tree form

Asking Questions? Who were they? Where did they come from? What did they do? When were born/marry/die BMDs What religion were they?

Sources for identifying information for your Irish family tree Family Birth, papers and stories – oral testimony marriage and death certificates Obituaries Military Wills and headstones and Pension records and other public documents Census Parish returns registers

Sources for Drawing your Irish family tree Civil Births, Marriages and Deaths for all of Ireland from 1864; marriages of non-Catholics from 1845 - Church records of Baptisms and Marriages It is essential to know the religious denomination of the ancestor - Census returns. The 1901 and 1911 Census returns for all 32 counties are available - Land/Property valuation records.

Civil Registration in Ireland 1 April 1845 Registration of non-Catholic marriages 1 January 1864 Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1878 1921 Index volumes divided into quarters 6 counties of Northern Ireland records in GRO Belfast

Services Genealogical National Kildare Clans Library of Ireland Street Dublin 2 National Bishop Advisory services: Archives of Ireland Street, Dublin 2 and Surnames Family History Events