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Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Williams Roulston's Researching Ulster Ancestors 1800-1914 now available to buy

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From the Ulster Historical Foundation ( https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com ): Great news! Researching Ulster Ancestors, 1800–1914 is now...
Tuesday, 5 May 2026

DUP removes funding from Placenames NI site triggering latest themuns versus usuns spat

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Those of us from Northern Ireland won't be surprised at the latest depressing 'themuns versus usuns' spat, with the Democratic U...
Thursday, 30 April 2026

New Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) website launched

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The Belfast based Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has at long last launched its new website. The new website is available...
Thursday, 23 April 2026

New Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) website to go live on April 30th

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The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland announced a while back that they were developing a new front of house website, but today they h...
Saturday, 28 March 2026

Ulster Historical Foundation is hiring genealogical researchers

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From the Ulster Historical Foundation : GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHERS REQUIRED   Ulster Historical Foundation would like to broaden its pool of ...

Easter closures for the NRS and PRONI

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The National Records of Scotland ( www.nrscotland.gov.uk ) and the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh will be closed on Friday 3 April and ...
Monday, 5 January 2026

Stepping down from PRONI's Stakeholder Forum after 13 years

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Since October 2012 I have had the great pleasure to be a member of the stakeholder forum of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ( ...
Saturday, 20 December 2025

Townlands and Irish Land Divisions - How to Use the Townland Atlas of Ulster presentation by Andrew Kane

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The Ulster Historical Foundation () has uploaded a great lecture onto its YouTube channel from Andrew Kane, entitled Townlands and Irish Lan...
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Saturday, 6 December 2025

FindmyPast adds more Fermanagh burial records

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Amongst the additions to FindmyPast ( www.findmypast.co.uk ) this week is the following: Fermanagh Cemetery Records We've added 1,170 mo...
Friday, 7 November 2025

Help bring The Result tall ship back to its rightful home in Carrickfergus

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News of an appeal from my home town, Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, which is trying to raise funds to conserve and bring back an extra s...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Latest PRONI Digest now available online

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The latest PRONI Digest from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ( www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni ) is now available online, covering i...

British Newspaper Archive passes 96 million pages of uploaded content

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The British Newspaper Archive ( www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ) has passed 96 million pages of uploaded content, with the total at the ...
Saturday, 20 September 2025

Major relaunch of PRONI website later this year, and other news from the archive

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Yesterday (Friday 19th September) I attended the latest stakeholder forum of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, aka PRONI ( https...
Friday, 19 September 2025

British Newspaper Archive adds TV Times (1956-1980) - but will the Scottish and Ulster editions be made available?

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The British Newspaper Archive ( www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk ) has added the TV Times to its holdings, as follows:     1955–56 TV time...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

PRONI Getting Started event at Strabane Library

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The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) will be holding a "Getting started" workshop at Strabane Library on Wednesday...
Friday, 6 June 2025

Latest news from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

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It was great to finally get a chance again this morning to attend the stakeholder forum meeting of the Public Record Office of Northern Irel...
Tuesday, 20 May 2025

PRONI to open at 12.00pm on Thursday 29th May

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Just a quick note to say that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland ( https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/public-record-office-nort...
Monday, 19 May 2025

Researching Irish Land Records course starts June 2nd

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My next Researching Irish Land Records course, taught on behalf of Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd, starts on Monday 2nd June 2025, and l...
Saturday, 26 October 2024

Ulster Historical Foundations adds new records to database

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The Ulster Historical Foundation ( https://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com ) has added 14,000 new records to its database, comprised of the f...
Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Ancestry adds Londonderry Freemen Records, 1673-1945

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Ancestry ( www.ancestry.co.uk ) has added another collection from Northern Ireland: Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Freemen Records, 1673-194...