This coffee chat meets on a rotation basis on Thursday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Watch the local events calendar for dates and times. People meet online by Zoom to chat about their successes and frustrations. Sharing your experiences might help someone else in the group. To register or for more information, contact: coffeechat@bcgs.ca

Facilitator: Eunice Robinson

The Ireland Coffee Chat covers both Northern Ireland and the southern Republic of Ireland.

For many years, Eunice Robinson has been collecting information on Ireland that helped her with her own research and could help others. She was kind enough to put this information together with an index. This index and another two on Irish marriages from 1771-1812 can be reached by clicking the buttons below.

IRELAND Genealogy Websites

General Register Office, Northern Ireland

National Archives of Ireland

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) PRONI indexes and records include will calendars and some wills (The Northern Ireland Registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry, 1858-1919 and 1922-1943 with 1920--21 are being added), valuation revision books, 1912 Ulster Covenant and Declaration signatures (237,368 men, 234,046 women) and freeholders records and more. Surname search.

Irish Genealogy.ie Free resources for birth, marriage, and deaths found in both north and south General Register Offices and churches.

Roots Ireland

Church of Ireland Records

Roman Catholic Church

Presyterian HIstorical Society - Records not available elsewhere

Genealogy Links general or by county

Linen Hall Library Resources to support genealogy from ‘how to’ guides for beginners to gravestone inscriptions, military lists, passenger lists, lists of clergy, and information on surnames, place-names and street directories. Unique to the Linen Hall, are the the Blackwood Pedigrees of handwritten family trees and the Belfast News Letter Birth, Death and Marriage Index 1737-1863

Council of Irish Genealogical Organizations:

Guiness Archive preserves the historical records of the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin from 1759 to the present. There is free access to everyone.

North of Ireland Family History Society

Ulster Historical Foundation (Ancestry Ireland)

Irish Lives Remembered Ireland’s premier digital genealogy magazine

Irish Genealogical Research

Emerald Ancestors Northern Ireland and Ulster (Counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry & Tyrone), vital events, census, some school registers. Free & membership options

Antrim Sources and Databases Bill Macafee's Family and Local History

Belfast Burial Records Belfast City Cemetery from 1869, Roselawn Cemetery from 1954, Dundonald Cemetery

Mannion Collection Includes information on some 7,500 immigrants who are identified by town, parish, townland or county of origin in Ireland. Probably five times that number of Irish immigrants, not identified by specific place of origin, are also listed.

DIPPAM Documenting Ireland Parliament, People, and Migration

Library of Ireland - Irish Name origin and meaning

Irish Genealogy toolkit

Irish Genealogy Project

John Grenham wizard

Beyond2022 - Digitizing surviving material.

Announcements & News

REFER TO THE CALENDAR ON Home Page FOR THE NEXT SCHEDULE COFFEE CHAT

Ulster Historical Foundation offering Membership Bundle

The Guild was established by the Ulster Historical Foundation in 1978,
to provide a forum for the Irish and Scots-Irish genealogical community.

  • Memberships start from as little as £38 ($53/€43) for one year.

  • We are also currently offering a membership bundle (£45/$63/€51) which includes 24 free credits to search our BMD records as well as a one year membership.

New PRONI videos on YouTube

Gail Dever tells us that th ePublic Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has added two videos in the past week to its YouTube channel that may interest family historians with ancestors from Northern Ireland. The length of the videos varies from an hour to almost two hours. The new videos are entitled:
PRONI & the Creation of ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury - Beyond 2022 PRONI: Unlocking Ulster’s Archives - Beyond 2022

The YouTube channel can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/user/PRONIonline

Books in BCGS Library

  1. Atlantic Canada’s Irish Immigrants, a fish and timber story
    Lucille H. Campey
    Call No. 971’945.5 CAM

  2. Irish Halifax, The Immigrant Generation 1815-1859
    Terrence M. Punch
    Call No. 971.622 PUN

  3. Genealogical Atlas of Ireland
    David E. Garner
    Coll No. 941.5’929 Atlas

  4. Special Report on Surnames in Ireland
    Robert E. Matheson
    Call No. 941.5 MAT

  5. Ontario & Quebec’s Irish Pioneers, Famers, Labourers, & Lumberjacks
    Lucille H. Campey
    Call No 971’941.5 CAM

IRISH NAMING CONVENTION

Male

  1. First Son - named after father’s father

  2. Second Son - Mother’s father

  3. Third Son - Father

  4. Fourth Son - Father’s eldest brother

  5. Fifth Son - Mother’s eldest brother

Female

  1. First Daughter - named after mother’s mother

  2. Second Daughter - Father’s mother

  3. Third Daughter - Mother

  4. Fourth Daughter - Mother’s eldest sister

  5. Fifth Daughter - Father’s eldest sister


Photo courtesy of Ann Buchanan

Photo courtesy of Ann Buchanan

 

Partial Irish Census Records

Bill Macaffee’s Website has some important partial census records including by not limited to:

  • Database of the Census of the Congregation of Magilliagan Presbyterian Church c. 1855.

  • 1851 Census for some Parishes and Townlands in the Barony of Kilconway, Co. Antrim.

  • 1851 Census for some Parishises and Townlands in the Barony of Glenarm, Co. Antrim.

  • Names of Householders listed in the 1831 Census Returns for County Londonderry.

  • Database of the 1817 Census of First Ballymoney Persbyterian Church compiled by Rev Robert Park.

  • Names listed in th 1803 Agricultural Census for some Parishes in North Antrim.

  • Database of the Census of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Ballintoy taken by the Rev. Robert Traill. April 1803.

Ireland Coffee Chat

Photo courtesy of Ann Buchanan