1. Diploma in Family History Occupational Records

2. Why? The Irish in the British Army

3. Where are the originals? National Archives, Kew Some few exceptions Guards regiments... Post 1920 records

4. Why are they so hard to grasp? 1660 Reforms Sheer scale Genealogy subscription sites

5. Where are the online copies? In general... TNA commercial deals with Pre-1913 FindMyPast.co.uk WW1 Ancestry.co.uk But... exceptions

6. General guide...nam.ac.uk

8. Detailed guide... www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

9. What records? Commissioned Non-commissioned Before or after 1913

10. Army List from 1740. Annotated copies downloadable from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk (“digital microfilm”) At Kew: WO 31, 25: Commissions WO 64: Promotions WO 25: Pensions National Archives catalogue search Commissioned officers

11. 1785 Army List

13. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.u k

16. Service records pre-1913 Pension or non-pension? Pension: Chelsea or Kilmainham: FindMyPast Soldiers’ Documents (Discharges) – pension to 1883, all thereafter WO 97 To 1915 (?) on FindMyPast.co.uk Other, piecemeal, on FindMyPast.co.uk Records of the non- commissioned

17. Kilmainham Pensioner

18. Chelsea Pensioner

19. Enlistment record

20. Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Register of Soldiers who served in Canada 1743-1882 (ancestry.co.uk)

21. Non-Pension records (Kew only) WO 12: Muster Books and Pay Lists (1732-1878) 13,307 volumes Know the regiment! Campaign and Service Medals and Awards (ancestry.co.uk) Army service records

23. Post 1913: Ancestry.com Service: 3.6 million records Pension: 2.1 million records Medal Index: 5.3 million

25. Post 1913 WW1 short service record “Burnt” documents

26. Medal index cards 1914-1920 Created c.1917/18 5 million entries Everyone who “served in a theatre of war” British War Medal Victory Medal 1914-15 Star

27. name, rank(s), unit(s), regimental number, medal entitlement [...] www.1914-1918.net for explanation Medal index cards 1914-1920

29. War Graves Commission Deaths after 1915 www.cwgc.org

30. Irish Regiments www.militaryarchives.ie => “About” Caution

32. War diaries 1914-1922 Pot luck, partially digitised, paying www.nationalarchive.gov.uk => War diaries www.operationwardiary.org (crowdsourced)

33. Miscellaneous (!) www.bmdregisters.co.uk (prisoners of war) Enlisted men Other Records Casualties and deserters 1795-1875 Description Books 1756-1900 Regimental Registers of Births, 1761-1924

34. Miscellaneous Other Deaths of Irish [...] African War (1898-1902) (GRO) Ireland's Memorial Records (FindMyPast.ie)

35. Wills: www.gov.uk/probate- search

36. soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie 9,000 pre-printed Free, fully-searchable Irish

37. FindMyPast.co.uk

39. Ancestry.com Service: 3.6 million records Pension: 2.1 million records Medal Index: 5.3 million

40. Summary?

41. POLICE 1814: Peace Preservation Force 1822: County Constabulary 1836: Irish Constabulary 1867: Royal Irish Constabulary Dublin Metropolitan Police

42. POLICE General Register 1816 -1922 NA- Kew (mf NAI, PRONI, LDS...) Herlihy, Jim: The Royal Irish Constabulary: a complete alphabetical list of officers and men, 1816-1922 DMP: Garda Archives (mf NAI)

43. POLICE

45. LAWYERS: KING’S INNS Up to 1867: solicitors (apprentices); barristers (students). Family information required King's Inns admission papers, 1607- 1867, edited by Edward Keane, P. Beryl Phair, and Thomas U. Sadlier (Dublin : Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1982). www.irishmanuscripts.ie Later: Dublin directories

46. CLERGY Catholic: think sideways C of I: Biographical succession lists, RCBL Presbyterian: www.presbyterianhistoryireland.comwww.presbyterianhistoryireland.com

47. Prison registers Cork city prison registers 1819-1924 www.findmypast.ie