Go Further

Eight more sites for tracing your roots in Ireland

BEYOND 2022

w beyond2022.ie

This project aims to create a virtual-reality replica of the Public Record Office of Ireland before its destruction in June 1922.

DIPPAM

w dippam.ac.uk

The website Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration (DIPPAM) includes an ‘Irish Emigration Database’ and the oral archive and database ‘Voices of Migration and Return’.

EMERALD ANCESTORS

w emeraldancestors.com

This commercial website boasts over 1.5 million genealogy records for Northern Ireland. Emerald Ancestors also has a useful tool that you can use to identify individual townlands.

GRIFFITH’S VALUATION

w askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation

This valuation of Irish property was carried out between 1848 and 1864. It’s a source of detailed information about where our ancestors lived in Ireland in the mid-19th century.

IMC DIGITAL EDITIONS

w irishmanuscripts.ie/product-category/imcdigital-editions/?action=digitisation_backlist Explore the results of the Irish Manuscripts Commission’s digitisation programme.

IRISH FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

w ifhs.ie

This genealogical group was formed in 1984.

MILITARY ARCHIVES

w militaryarchives.ie/en/home

This is the official home of the records of the Department of Defence, the Defence Forces and the Army Pensions Board.

PRONI

w nidirect.gov.uk

The website of the official repository the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland has all sorts of valuable free search tools including directories, cemetery records and tithes.