Registry of Deeds Public Reading Room Following some inspiration through my own research and a particularly good talk I listened to recently (see this blog piece), I've had a bit a tidy up and published some new pages.
The Registry of Deeds is a favourite stomping ground of mine and I am always on the look out for good advice and tips. Coupled with my many helpful links, the page had got rather unwieldy so I've split it into one top page - Registry of Deeds and 5 more focused pages below it;
The Registry of Deeds is a favourite stomping ground of mine and I am always on the look out for good advice and tips. Coupled with my many helpful links, the page had got rather unwieldy so I've split it into one top page - Registry of Deeds and 5 more focused pages below it;
I have also put together a page on finding the Irish in Canada after following a couple of branches of my family over there and discovering some useful websites and advice for Ontario in particular.
Canada had lots of Irish and Scots immigrants and the latter very helpfully imported some more fulsome bureaucracy when it came to recording vital events ... thank goodness!
Canada had lots of Irish and Scots immigrants and the latter very helpfully imported some more fulsome bureaucracy when it came to recording vital events ... thank goodness!
Sir Arthur Vicars Another page I've been working on for a while is my Chefs - Irish Genies page. It struck me that there were quite a lot of historical collections and publications that we often refer to by the authors' names - Griffith's, Betham's, Crossle etc., so who were these people? Mostly Victorian gentleman but a couple of ladies also made the cut.
Sir Arthur Vicars' story was one of particularly high drama!
It was also interesting to see how they built on each other's work, particularly regarding prerogative wills. Something to bear in mind when choosing amongst the different resources for these records - check any prefaces in whole books that you can download for free that might detail their methodology (something you might miss if you are only playing "letterbox Scrabble" on FindMyPast and viewing single pages.)
Sir Arthur Vicars' story was one of particularly high drama!
It was also interesting to see how they built on each other's work, particularly regarding prerogative wills. Something to bear in mind when choosing amongst the different resources for these records - check any prefaces in whole books that you can download for free that might detail their methodology (something you might miss if you are only playing "letterbox Scrabble" on FindMyPast and viewing single pages.)
I've also done a bit of housekeeping on some broken links as I came across them. Notably, you'll be pleased to hear that the Irish Manuscripts Commission have done away with the clunky flip reader application that they previously used to display Beryl Eustace's volumes of abstracted wills. You can now download all 3 volumes for free from their site.
Find out more on the Registry of Deeds - Online Access page via the link above.
Find out more on the Registry of Deeds - Online Access page via the link above.
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