1. Reverse genealogy Celtic Connections, Waltham, August 16 2014

2. World diaspora

3. US diaspora

4. Tricks and tools Come forward in Irish records Use parents’ names to flesh out families Find extended families in 1901/1911 Follow changes in Valuation Office revisions Use 20 th century death notices and voters’ lists Will Calendars and Probate Continuous runs A precise place Use overseas records

5. Rootsireland.ie

7. Familysearch.org

10. IrishGenealogy.ie

11. Valuation Office revision books 1854 1863

12. Valuation Office revision books 1894

13. Valuation Office revision books 1909

14. Valuation Office revision books 1922

15. 1946 Valuation Office revision books

16. 1981 Valuation Office revision books

17. Valuation Office Irish Life Centre Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1 Republic of Ireland +353-1-817 1000 Open 9.30 am - 12.30 pm, 2 - 4.30 pm, Mon. - Fri. http://www.valoff.ie/ revision books Perambulation Books Maps

18. PRONI: Revisions to 1933

19. Online newspapers Irishtimes.com/archive: Irish Times from 1856 Irishnewsarchive.com: Indo stable, Irish Press Britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: to 1922 Heyday, 1940s to 2000s Death notices

20. Feb 24 1940... Independent

21. June 12 1984

22. Irishnewsarchive.com Irish Independent, Aug 17 1964

23. Death notices

24. Voters’ Lists Dublin only, for now www.dublinheritage.ie 1898-1916, 1938- 1964

25. Maps Valuation maps (askaboutireland.ie)  Ordnance survey maps (maps.osi.ie)  Contemporary maps (maps.osi.ie)  GPS coordinates (itouchmap.com/latlong.html)  Google maps

26. Non-Irish records North America UK Australasia

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

28. Janesville, 1929

29. Published works Chain migration Often best guide to Irish origin

30. Ancestry.com = North America Censuses Civil records Land records Newspapers And...

31. stevemorse.org

32. UK censuses FindMyPast.co.uk Ancestry.co.uk Scotlandspeople.gov.uk Censuses every 10 years, 1841 - 1911

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

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

35. Scottish census 1871

36. Scottish death

37. Australasia Much better shipping records Excellent BMD (most now online) Convicts (40,000) Assisted New Zealand – later, voluntary, Ulster

38. AUSTRALIAN STATES: BMD New South WalesVictoria QueenslandSouth Australia Western AustraliaTasmania (offline) Northern Territory (offline)

39. For example... Michael John Nolan emigrated to Australia in 1910, and died in Queensland some time in the 1970s. What was his mother’s maiden name ?

40. www.bdm.qld.gov.au

42. Most useful Australian death records Scottish death records (Some) US marriage records Try a broad sweep on FamilySearch

43. Ellisisland.org - advanced

44. stevemorse.org

45. stevemorse.org: 946 matches

46. SS Servia, dep May 1 1901

48. 1901 Census Kilmeen 3

49. 1911 Census Kilmeen 3

51. Ireland Reaching Out www.irelandxo.com