Two more of PRONI's collections have now been indexed by Ancestry, as follows:
Northern Ireland, Valuation Revision Books, 1864-1933
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62658/
Source: Valuation Revision Books. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
About Northern Ireland, Valuation Revision Books, 1864-1933
This collection contains land valuation records from Northern Ireland between 1864 and 1933. Revision books wtook the form of chronological ledgers and tracked changes to a property's original valuation. Valuations were conducted annually.
Using this collection
Records in the collection may contain the following information:
- Names of property owners
- Names of occupants
- Description of property
- Changes in acreage
- Changes in property valuation
- Name of street
- Name of city, county, parish, and townland
- Name of affiliated poor law union
- Date of notation
This collection contains a wealth of useful information to help trace your ancestors. As valuation revisions were conducted yearly, you can use them to create a chronological family history. There are no surviving censuses for Ireland prior to 1901, which makes the collection even more useful. Records can even be used to confirm dates of emigration or death, as you can seamlessly trace your family member's address. If you wish to trace your family back even further, you may wish to pair this collection with Griffith's Valuation.
Web: Northern Ireland, Freeholders Records
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/70955/
Source: Freeholders Records. Public Records Office of Northern Ireland. https://apps.proni.gov.uk/freeholders/default.aspx: Accessed February 2023.
About Web: Northern Ireland, Freeholders Records
All data in this third-party database was obtained from the source’s website. Ancestry.com does not support or make corrections or changes to the original database. To learn more about these records, please refer to the source’s website.
COMMENTS: Note that both collections can be consulted on the PRONI website at https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/public-record-office-northern-ireland-proni, but this is the first time that the Northern Irish Valuation Revision Books (known as the Cancelled Land Books in the Republic of Ireland) can be searched by a person's name, with the records previously browse only by the name of a county, parish, townland or street name. So this is a major new finding aid for the records, which act as the'sequel' to the mid-19th century Griffith's Valuation records, continuing to provide information on land holdings up to about 1930 for the six counties of Northern Ireland. I have to admit that I am not sure yet whether I will use the Ancestry indexes, as there is often a great deal of value in browsing the relevant record books, but I suspect I will likely use both to pursue transfers of land ownership.
On the free holders records, these were previously name searchable on the PRONI website, but on Ancestry you can use wildcards for names, increasing the research flexibility there also.
You can find a great deal more about these and other Irish land records, with worked up examples on how to use them, in my book, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, available from Pen and Sword in the UK at https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Irish-Ancestors-Through-Land-Records-Paperback/p/19283, and from the USA at https://www.penandswordbooks.com/9781526780218/tracing-your-irish-ancestors-through-land-records/.
Chris
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