Entries from October 2007

October 15, 2007

CBC Ottawa on Digitization of Irish Censuses

CBC Ottawa has a link to an interview which discusses the progress of the digitization of the Irish 1901 and 1911 Census. It gives the background to the lack (in general) of earlier census material for Ireland as well. The CBC Ottawa website will carry the interview for a bit longer at CBC Ottawa
The 1911 [...]

October 3, 2007

Books and newspapers…

The Irish Times digital archive could be useful for genealogy. I haven’t tried it yet but here is the link: Irish Times Archive
Another useful source for genealogy is the digitized books on Google. You can search for items of interest and see what comes up. Some of these books are available in their entirety in [...]

October 1, 2007

Indexing - Registry of Deeds

Today, I received the latest copy of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) newsletter and I was gobsmacked to see that Mr Nick Reddan, FIGRS, has launched a project to index all persons mentioned in the memorials of the Registry of Deeds. This is a worthy and massive task and he is looking for [...]