1. Diploma in Family History The Irish Abroad

2. WHY? Why should someone researching in Ireland care?

3. Outline North American immigration records North American sources sampled UK sources Australia, New Zealand

4. WHEN? 17 th century, post-Cromwellian 18 th century, Ulster-Scots 1820s, 1830s, controlled migration (chain) Famine: desperate exodus Post-famine: chain: peaks and troughs

5. NORTH AMERICA: 1783-1814: ROUGHLY

6. NORTH AMERICA: 1815-1844: ROUGHLY

7. NORTH AMERICA: FAMINE NUMBERS

8. PASSENGER RECORDS - NORTH AMERICA Very few departure records; most arrival, but some exceptions Passenger lists uninformative until Immigration Passenger lists system

9. ‘Superior’, arriving Philadelphia May 13, 1856, from Clogholl, County Londonderry

10. www.genealogybranches.com/irish passengerlists/

11. RECORDS - NORTH AMERICA Ellis Island arrivals 1896-1924 Castle Garden (New York arrivals, 1820-1913) ‘Missing Friends’ – http://infowanted.bc.edu/ Famine Immigrants

12. ELLIS ISLAND, 1912

13. US SOURCES: FAMILYSEARCH

14. STEVEMORSE.ORG

15. ANCESTRY.COM

16. WWW.TIARA.IE

18. IRISH ANCESTRY, 1990

19. SCOTS-IRISH ANCESTRY, 1990

20. FAVOURED DESTINATIONS Blaskets => Springfield, Mass. Nth Monaghan => Prince Edward Island Achill => Cleveland Tourmakeady => Chicago Tralee => New Zealand Abbeydorney => Westbury N.Y. Tipperary => Janesville, Ill.???

21. Janesville, 1929

22. PUBLISHED WORKS Chain migration Often best guide to Irish origin

23. UK SOURCES? Migration? Censuses GRO records Church? Property?.....

24. Censuses: 1841, Luton 1801, then every10 years Family names from 1841

25. Censuses:1851, Hertford

26. Censuses: 1861, Liverpool (1)

27. Censuses: 1861, Liverpool (2)

28. Censuses: 1871, Crew’s list

29. Censuses: 1881, Sunderland

30. Censuses: 1891, Douglas

31. Censuses 1901: Swansea

32. Censuses: 1911, Yorkshire

33. Censuses £ ancestry.co.uk (inc. Scotland) 1841-1901 England & Wales 1911. Not all imaged £ FindMyPast.co.uk (inc. Scotland) 1841-1901 England & Wales 1911. Not all imaged £ The Genealogist.co.uk (England & Wales) 1841-1911 (partial for 1911). Not all imaged

34. Censuses £ Scotlandspeople.gov.uk: 1841-1911 Not record images for all FamilySearch.org: 1841-1911 (England & Wales, partial, indexes) Freecen.org.uk Free volunteer transcripts National Archives, Kew Time-limited

35. Census substitutes National register 1940-1952

36. General Register Office England and Wales: 1 July 1837 Scotland: 1 January 1855

37. GRO Registration system District Registry => Central Copy & Index Four Quarters each year England & Wales: Indexes online Certificates from GRO with index information Scotland Scotlandspeople.gov.uk

38. English & Welsh birth

39. English & Welsh marriage

40. English & Welsh death

41. Scottish birth

42. Scottish marriage

43. Scottish death

44. GRO Index

45. GRO Indexes England and Wales freebmd.org.uk (to 1950s) ancestry/ findmypast / thegenealogist... Scotlandspeople

46. FREEBMD SPOUSE SEARCH

47. Freebmd spouse search

48. GRO certificates England and Wales www.gro.gov.uk (£9.95) Scotland scotlandspeople.gov.uk (£7, but... ) “ 30 page credits which are valid for 1 full year. Viewing a page of index results costs 1 credit and each page will contain up to 25 search results. Viewing an image costs 5 credits (equivalent to 1.17GBP). Your session begins when payment has been authorised and additional credits may be purchased in 7GBP increments. The session will restart with each new credit purchase.”....

49. WWW.FREEREG.ORG.UK

50. http s ://geni.nidirect.gov.uk GRONI

51. Church records Non-conformist: £ www.bmdregisters.co.uk (NA records) Church of England: Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers Cecil R. Humphery-Smith www.genuki.org.uk Transcripts.... LDS... familysearch

52. Property records Domesday book (1086): domesdaybook.co.uk Medievalgenealogy.org Enclosures Estates Hearth taxes Poor Law records: documentsonline....

53. Migration records Outward passenger records 1890-1960 www.ancestorsonboard.com

54. Migration records

55. Incoming passenger lists 1878-1960: ancestry.co.uk (NA) Bounty immigrants (Australia) 1828-1842: familysearch.org New Zealand Immigration Convicts:www.convictrecords.com.au..... Migration records

56. Wills Pre-1858: Local or Canterbury Post-1858: Probate Service Calendars 1861-1941: ancestry

58. Other records Occupational Directories www.historicaldirectories.org Newspapers www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Schools....

59. Guidance Genuki.org.uk

60. Guidance discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

61. Guidance

62. AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND Much better shipping records Excellent BMD (most now online) Convicts (40,000) Assisted New Zealand – later, voluntary, Ulster

63. http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/ convicts.htm

64. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA NSW: Immigration and ShippingNSW: Immigration and Shipping - New South Wales Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle 1844-1859, Sydney 1860-1896, Moreton Bay, 1848-1859, Port Phillip 1839-1851 NSW: Unassisted Immigrants 1844-1855 Unassisted Passenger and Crew Arrivals 1854-1900Unassisted Passenger and Crew Arrivals 1854-1900 - indexes primarily New South Wales unassisted arrivals including coastal shipping to Sydney (incomplete) Ships Musters 1816-1825Ships Musters 1816-1825 - passengers and crew departing from Sydney National Archives of AustraliaNational Archives of Australia - post 1923 immigration records Queensland assisted immigrationQueensland assisted immigration 1848-1912 South Australian passenger listsSouth Australian passenger lists - from precolonisation to 1850+ (incomplete) Victoria: Index to registers of assisted British immigrantsVictoria: Index to registers of assisted British immigrants -indexes assisted immigrants from Britain to Victoria, Australia between 1839 and 1871 Victoria: Index to unassisted immigration to VictoriaVictoria: Index to unassisted immigration to Victoria - lists of unassisted passengers to Victoria, Australia from overseas ports (including New Zealand) between 1852 and 1923 Victoria: Outward passengers to interstate, UK, NZ and foreign portsVictoria: Outward passengers to interstate, UK, NZ and foreign ports 1852-1901 Irish famine memorialIrish famine memorial - lists, by ship, Irish Orphans girls brought to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in the 1840s & 1850s (incomplete) http://www.nla.gov.au/family-history/genealogy-selected-websites

65. AUSTRALIAN STATES: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS New South WalesVictoria QueenslandSouth Australia (offline) Western AustraliaTasmania (offline) Northern Territory (offline)

66. NEW ZEALAND BDM bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

67. MOST USEFUL Australian death records Scottish death records (Some) US marriage records Try a broad sweep on FamilySearch