Some years in the past, I used to be approached by a household within the US to do analysis on ancestors of theirs who had
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Why you can’t mass produce genealogical research
The primary cause, after all, is that our ancestors are too cursedly numerous to be mass-researched. So we’re doomed/blessed by our uncooked materials to stay
How to look a gift-horse in the mouth
After the announcement final week of “Plans to digitise historic Land Commission records”, a couple of individuals contacted me asking if I used to be
Arses, Elbows and FOMARR
One of many best and most dreaded analysis errors is to overlook a document you didn’t find out about. This isn’t helped by some websites
Quick and dirty are my middle names
Anybody who’s needed to take care of my coding is aware of, the highest precedence is to get the rattling software program to do one
Irish or Gaelic? Or Erse?
I’ve simply completed studying Charles Townshend’s recently-published The Partition: Eire Divided, 1885-1925 , which incorporates all the things you might probably wish to know in
A cautionary tale
Right here’s a horror story from the entrance line. The Irish Instances ran a story a couple of days ago concerning the unveiling on the
A new tool for searching institutions in the 1911 census
One of many delights of the Nationwide Archives of Eire census website is the great flexibility of its search interface. Inside the modestly-labelled “extra search
Black Prods, Beige Prods and little Papes
I grew up in Castlerea in north Roscommon within the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties. It was mono-culturally Irish Catholic to an extant nearly inconceivable
Say hello to cousin Boris
Emigration has lengthy been a sore spot for the Irish. A favorite lame excuse was the one the late Brian Lenihan got here up with
