If you have Irish ancestry – as 34.5 million Americans do – then you’re in luck when it comes to finding free online resources that help with your ancestral search. In fact there’s a website that’s dedicated to making these scattered resources more easily accessible. That site is called simply Free Irish Genealogy eBooks. It’s an Index to about 4000 free online books and journals on the topics of Irish, Irish-American, Irish-Australian and Irish-Canadian Genealogy – all of which can all be read online. Most of them can also be downloaded to tablets of one form or another. Since most of these items are very old, they are most likely out-of-print, out-of-copyright, or only printed in very short print-runs and nearly unavailable in traditional paper format. That’s where the Internet, Peter J. Clarke, and the many digital books available come to our rescue.
The following links are found on the home page of Clarke’s Free Irish Genealogy eBooks site:
Pedigrees:
* Irish Pedigrees A – C
* Irish Pedigrees D – K
* Irish Pedigrees L – O
* Irish Pedigrees P – Z
* Pedigree Resources
Family Histories:
* Irish Clans, Tribes and Septs
* Irish Family Histories A – H
* Irish Family Histories I – Z
* Irish-American Family Histories A – C
* Irish-American Family Histories D – H
* Irish-American Family Histories I – M
* Irish-American Family Histories N – Z
* Irish-Australian Family Histories
* Irish-Canadian Family Histories
Diaspora:
* Irish Diaspora Australia; Great Britain; New Zealand; South America; General
* Irish Diaspora – North America Canada – By Province; General; Caribbean; United States – By State; U.S.A.
Resources:
* Almanacs and Directories By City, County, Province; Ireland
* Church – Records Registers by County; Irish Exiles in France; General
* Guidebooks Genealogy; Travel; Connacht; Leinster; Munster; Ulster; Ireland
* Journals Genealogical; Church; Irish-American; Legal; University; Miscellaneous
* Nobility and Landed Gentry Memoirs of the Nobility; Directories; Estate, Family Papers, Manuscripts, Memoirs; Heraldry; Hunting, Shooting and Fishing; Lordships, Manors; Seats, Houses, Castles
* Holdings of Irish Family and Estate Papers
* Irish Genealogy Resources Census – By Year – General; Commerce and Industry; Graves – Ireland – By County – Overseas – By Country – Graves General; Libraries; Maps; Newspapers; Passenger Lists; Place Names; Prison; School; Surname – Change of; Surnames; University; Births, Marriages, Deaths; Obituaries, Memorials – Wills, Deeds; Bibles; Voters (NEW!); Miscellaneous
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* Surnames – List of surnames – found a ways down on the Free Irish Genealogy Books page.
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