1. Drawing your Irish Family Tree
Lorna Moloney
Clans and Surnames

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

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

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

8. 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

9. 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.

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

11. 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