Irish
Genealogical Research Society -
promoting and encouraging the study of
genealogy since 1936
Members who
wish to have access to these documents, please email requesting a password and giving both your name
and membership
number. You will then
be sent your password. When you receive your password, you will be able to use
Adobe Acrobat Reader to access both the Catalogue and the Father Clare Wills
Abstract. You can,
in the meantime, download the documents for use when you receive your password. If you are not a member of the IGRS, please
click here to join (membership is
£20
sterling ($34 US, € 30) per year). You will then receive a
membership number which will give you access to the documents.
The Irish
Genealogist:Some
backnumbers of the IGRS Journal, "The Irish Genealogist"
are still available. This downloadable file lists all issues and
indicates those that are available (and can still be purchased) and
those that are not. Some off-prints of articles from unavailable issues
are listed at the end of this file and can also be purchased. This file
is not password-protected.
Library Catalogue TheLibrary Catalogue runs to 51
pages on Letter paper or 48 pages on A4. It is not complete and will therefore
be updated from time to time. We hope members will find it useful and that
this is the start of other indexes to come on line for the benefit of members,
especially for those unable to get to the library. Download the A4 version of the Catalogue
Download the Letter-size version of the
Catalogue
Father Wallace Clare Manuscript Abstract of
Wills is an index to administrations and Will abstracts collected by Father
Clare. Wills usually have additional family information - we will check on these
if you have an intrest in a particular Will or Wills and are unable to visit the
library. Please email the Society with your details and enquiry. All spellings
are as per Father Clare.
Download the Father Clare Abstract of
Wills
Parish Register and Family History Collections:
This index to "The Parish Register and Family History Collections of the
Late Michael Leader" originally appeared in the THE IRISH GENEALOGIST, Vol. 10,
No. 2, 1999. Michael Leader specialised in genealogies of Co. Cork families.
This download is a complete transcription of this article and runs to 23 A4
pages. Download the
Parish Register/ Family
History Collection
Ireland Branch Millennium Project
- Publication of the IGRS Tombstone Archive.
From the early 1970s, the Irish members collected tombstone inscriptions,
and deposited them on behalf of the society in the Genealogical Office in
Dublin. A total of 18 counties and approx. 170 graveyards, cemeteries and
churches are listed in the volumes. The information should be treated as a
finding aid, rather than a definitive list of tombstones, as not all
stones or all details were included in the submissions to the society.
The project was published in 2 volumes in 2002 and these printed volumes
have been deposited in Great Britain in
The IGRS library in London,
The UK copyright libraries which are The
British Library,Cambridge University Library,
Oxford University Library,The National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth,The National Library of Scotland,
Edinburgh.
In Ireland these can
be found in
The National
Library of Ireland,
The National
Archives of Ireland,
The Royal Irish
Academy,
The Genealogical
Office, Dublin,
The Library of
The Representative Church Body,
The Linenhall
Library, Belfast,
The Belfast
Central Library,
University
College Cork,
University
College Galway,
University of
Limerick,
University
College Dublin, at Belfield, Dublin,
Maynooth
University (NUI), Kildare,
The Gilbert
Library (part of the Dublin Public Library system),
The Irish
Genealogical Research Society Millennium Projects
To celebrate the Millennium, the Society embarked on two important
projects aimed at making available to a wider audience some of the
research work undertaken by members of the Society over a number of years.
Father Clare’s
Annotations to the Convert Rolls
Father Clare collected much additional family information relating to
people who had conformed to the Established Church in the 18th century
during the height of the penal laws. Most of this information held by the
IGRS has never been published and is additional to that available in the
Irish Manuscript Commission work The Convert Rolls compiled by Eileen
O’Byrne in 1981. Sometimes the additional information available amounts to
detailed family trees.
The IGRS Millenium Project undertaken by Dr Anne Chamney - we are happy to
announce that Dr Chamney’s mammoth task of checking Father Clare’s
manuscript notes on the Convert Rolls has been completed. A new edition of
The Convert Rolls, just published by the Irish Manuscript Commission,
Dublin, has been published using Dr Chamney’s research. Please click on
The Irish Manuscript Commission on our link page. Dr Chamney, a Fellow of
this Society, has checked each entry against his references. Since these
are often just initials, which obviously meant something to the original
author but not necessarily to us, validating the source of the information
has proved difficult and time consuming, but each entry has being checked
for accuracy against printed and manuscript material in the IGRS library
collection, The National Library of Ireland, The National Archives of
Ireland, The British Library and other important collections in Ireland
and the UK. In the course of her research Dr Chamney has found additional
names of people conforming to the Established Church listed in Irish
newspapers from 1750 onwards and that many of these were, in fact, never
recorded elsewhere. The interim fruits of her research were published in
The Irish Genealogist Volume 11 no.1. Catholic Converts Recorded in
Some 18th Century Irish Newspapers.
The Frances-Jane French Collection of genealogical
notes and trees
The Irish Genealogical Research Society is a registered UK charity,
No. 235886