Drawing your Irish Family Tree Lorna Moloney Clans and Surnames

The Strategies START WITH YOURSELF Talk to your existing relatives Move backwards generation by generation Devise a research plan 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 papers and stories – oral testimony Birth, marriage and death certificates Obituaries and headstones Military and Pension records Wills and other public documents Census returns Parish 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 Index volumes divided into quarters 1921 6 counties of Northern Ireland records in GRO Belfast

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