Irish Genealogy News blog ceases publication

Claire Santry's Irish Genealogy News blog (www.irishgenealogynews.com) has published its final post after fourteen years. As well as thanking those who have supported her, in her final post (https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2024/07/irish-genealogy-news-publishes-its.html) Claire writes

"After 14 years and 5,764 blogposts, Irish Genealogy News is taking its leave. Kind of. There will be no new blogposts but those that have already been published will remain online for a while... probably until the domain name comes up for renewal.

"My website – Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com – will also be continuing for the time being. It will be receiving some much-needed attention over the next couple of months but should then be able to stand on its own legs without taking up too much of my newly-discovered liberty."

A huge thanks to Claire for all her efforts over the last fourteen years, her blog will be much missed!

Chris

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Ireland's Landed Estates website comes back in from the cold

A big thanks to Claire Santry for blogging that the Landed Estates database from NUI Galway is back up and running, after an absence of several months. 

The site, available at www.landedestates.ie, documents the ownership of estates in the provinces of Munster and Connacht from 1700-1914, and can be searched by the names of families, houses, estates, or via an interactive map. It's a valuable site, and its return is definitely welcome!

(With thanks to Claire Santry; https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2022/04/irelands-free-landedestates-database-is.html)

Chris 

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Further Scottish census transcriptions added to MyHeritage

Thanks to John Reid at Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections for the news that MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com) has added transcripts for the Scottish 1841-1901 censuses (see https://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2021/09/05/myheritage-adds-scottish-census-collection/). 

This adds to the limited extracts previously only available from the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Scottish censuses, and follows on from a similar release in June to TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk) for the same census years for Scotland (see http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2021/06/thegenealogist-adds-1841-1901-scottish.html).

Note that the providers of Scottish census transcripts do not usually provide the full information contained within the records, with questions such as linguistic ability with Gaelic, the number of rooms with one or more windows, and some medical details, missing. The only place where the information is provided in its entirety is on the original images which have been digitised and hosted by ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk), which also exclusively holds the 1911 census, and at some point hopefuly in the next year, the 1921 census.

Remember that access to My Heritage's census collections is free until September 8th - further details at http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2021/09/myheriatge-offers-free-access-to-census.html. 

Finally, kudos to MyHeritage - the census reference information for each entry on the Scottish entries looks fairly robust from an initial search.

(With thanks to John)

Chris

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.