IGRS Top Research Tip #165: Found reference to an Irish grant of probate (a will) which was destroyed in the 1922 PROI fire? Try checking the same records for England & Wales which contain many re-grants of Irish wills: gov.uk/search-will-pr…

IGRS Top Research Tip #166: Your ancestor’s farm may have overlapped townlands. 1st note all plots with your ancestor’s name in Griffith’s PV, then check against numbered plots on corresponding valuation maps for any that adjoin or are in close proximity: askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valua…

IGRS Top Research Tip #167: PDF images of the Will Calendars for Ireland (Republic only) can be accessed online, 1922-1983. Use them to establish when and where an ancestor died and order a copy of their will from the National Archives of Ireland: johngrenham.com/browse/retriev…

IGRS Top Research Tip #168: Search this site for records of the Irish migration to, and settlement in, Newfoundland in eastern Canada, 1750-1850. Huge numbers hailed from Ireland’s southeast, specifically counties Kilkenny, Waterford & Wexford: mannioncollection.ca/default.aspx

IGRS Top Research Tip #169: Searching for gravestone inscriptions in Co. Galway? This comprehensive list points to over 400 cemeteries and burial grounds across the county for which there are inscriptions and/or burial records: tinyurl.com/29t29n4h

We are delighted to welcome Eilish Feeley as a new Member of AGI. Based in County Roscommon, Eilish first joined AGI through our Affiliate Programme. Read more about Eilish and her work here: accreditedgenealogists.ie/wp-content/upl…

See our new Introduction to the Irish Census: A Guide for Family History Researchers accreditedgenealogists.ie/wp-content/upl…

IGRS Top Research Tip #170: The State of the Country Papers / Outrage Reports, were a sub-series of Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers, starting in 1821. They detail serious crimes of a political or organised nature. See online catalogues: csorp.nationalarchives.ie/index.html

Census of Ireland, 1861. The 1861 census returns were never in PRO/never open to the public. Not knowing this, Samuel Gilmore wrote to PRO seeking info from 1861 census, providing a mock-up for the Patterson household, Lisburn. Click link: virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CEN-… National Archives, Ireland

IGRS Top Research Tip #171: Tracking down descendants of your Irish relatives who moved to New York City? Here’s a helpful free online tool: The NYC Marriage Index, 1950-2017. It records 4,757,588 marriage licences issued: nycmarriageindex.com

IGRS Top Research Tip #172: Glasnevin cemetery is the main place of burial for Dublin’s Catholics: 1.5M are interred there. Helpfully, its online database can even be searched with just as little as an address by first tapping a ‘space’ in the surname box: dctrust.ie/genealogy/sear…

Image of the month: September - Beyond the Surface: A Photograph's Hidden Story, by Jillian van Turnhout, M.A.G.I. accreditedgenealogists.ie/beyond-the-sur…

IGRS Top Research Tip #173: If your ancestor was a sailor he’ll likely appear in the crew lists of ships & boats registered in what is now the Republic of Ireland, 1860-1921. Search the database here: census.nationalarchives.ie/search/cl/home…

Copies of Rachel Finnegan’s most recent book, ‘Memories of Gentry Houses in Skibbereen and Douglas, County Cork’, is now available from Coolim Books at tinyurl.com/SkibbDouglasGe…

IGRS Top Research Tip #174: Was your ancestor one of the c45,000 Irish men who served and died in British forces during the Great War, 1914-1918? Check the website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: cwgc.org

IGRS Top Research Tip #175: If you’re seeking Irish sources for women’s history the website of the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) has a page describing a range of such sources held by NAI: nationalarchives.ie/collections/so…

IGRS Top Research Tip #176: If the parish baptismal register doesn’t survive from early enough, try piecing a family together by combing through the civil marriage registers (FREE) looking for matching fathers’ names. From 1845 for non-RC, 1864 for RCs,: irishgenealogy.ie/search/

Join us in giving thanks to God for the annual harvest. The whole community is welcome to join with us to celebrate. Afterwards there’ll be tea, coffee and buttered brack in the adjoining church hall. 🍁🍁🍁

Pray too that the Moderator will also be challenged to come clean on PCI’s questionable use of NDAs and about its accounting of denominational funds used to pay off complaints! 🙏🏼🤲🙏🏼

On 8th October, our Co-Chairs & Legal Expert Panel Member Colin Smith shared our views on the Inquiry & Redress Bill with the Committee for the Executive Office.📺 Watch the recording: shorturl.at/3qDL3📄 Read our written submission to the Committee: shorturl.at/G0NRh