It is getting very close to St. Patrick’s Day. Do you have Irish heritage? Now is a good time to do some genealogy research, and find out the answer to that question. There are plenty of online resources that can help you to do it. Last year at around this time, Ancestry.com released “The Irish Collection”. It has been called the “definitive” Irish collection. It contains records related to Ireland from the nineteenth century. “The Irish Collection” includes a bunch of different groupings of records. The “Griffiths Valuation 1848 – 1864” has 2.5 million records related to land an property … Continue reading →

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Ancestry.com has added new Irish records and enhanced some of their existing Irish records. There are two new sets of records and two sets of records that have been revised. One of the new sets of records is called “Ordnance Survey Maps 1824-1846”. This collection consists of nearly two thousand very detailed (six inches per mile) maps that were created before and during the Irish Potato Famine. The maps were originally used for land valuation for tax assessment purposes. Since the maps are so detailed, you may be able to pinpoint the exact … Continue reading →