Resources and guides used in the Claire Foy episode of WDYTYA [8th June 2023]
Newspapers
A great source of information – full of the stories that made up the lives of our ancestors. A guide to using the newspapers
Link 👉https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/tutorials/old-newspapers/
Tracing Adoptions
Whether you’re trying to access your own adoption records or tracing an adoption in your family history, Gill Rossini explains the next steps
Link 👉https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/tutorials/adoption/
Adoption Records
Some information from the Gov.uk website
Link👉https://www.gov.uk/adoption-records
Dr Barnardo’s
Link👉https://www.barnardos.org.uk/former-barnardos-children
UK Birth-Adoption Register
Link👉 http://www.ukbirthadoptionregister.com/
Greater Manchester Police Museum
Link👉 https://gmpmuseum.co.uk/
Our Criminal Ancestors
Looking to find your criminal ancestors? Start here with these handy guides
Link👉 https://ourcriminalancestors.org/category/getting-started/
Free Irish Records
Some sites that you may find useful
National Library of Ireland
Guide to Irish Family History sources (NLI website):
Link👉https://www.nli.ie/family-history/getting-started
RC parish records
Not indexed, best used in conjunction with free FindMyPast index
Link👉https://registers.nli.ie/
IrishGenealogy
Source of civil registration records (all island up to 1921) and information on other sources
Link👉https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/irish-records-what-is-available/civil-records
National Archives of Ireland
Genealogy links, Including the census, will calendars from 1858 (read the guide to testamentary records), and many other useful genealogy sources.
Link👉https://genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/
Swilson.info
Contains directories, maps and more
Link👉 https://www.swilson.info/
LibraryIreland:
Various sources including many town and county directories
Link👉https://www.libraryireland.com/Genealogy.php
AskAboutIreland:
Includes some Thoms Directories but most importantly the Griffiths Land Valuations:
Link👉 https://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml
Townlands.ie
For places (townlands, electoral districts, civil parishes - important info for census and civil registration) se
Link👉https://www.townlands.ie/
Ordnance Survey maps
Link👉https://osi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html...
Dúchas Schools Folklore Collection.
A project organised by the Irish government in the 1930s
Link👉https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes
Registry of Deeds Index Project:
Mostly deeds/mortgages related to land, some marriage articles/settlements and wills:
Irish Manuscripts Commission
A variety of sources including King's Inn's Admission papers, Registry of Deeds and abstracts of wills from about 1708-1830, Guide to Irish Quaker Records, Books of Survey and Distribution
Link👉https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/pro.../imc-digital-editions/
Virtual Treasury
A new collaboration and work in progress to try to reconstruct some of the sources lost during the fire in the Public Records Office in 1922