Special CS497 .L68 L44 1990  County Longford and its People: an Index to the 1901 Census for County Longford 

Special DA950.2 .M38 1999  Ireland: 1841/1851 Census Abstracts (Republic of Ireland)

Special – Micro DA990 .L8 I45  1831 Census (County Londonderry)  

III. "Griffith's Valuation" 

The Department owns an incomplete microfiche edition of the Surname Index to the …Griffith's Valuation … of Ireland, the property survey of Ireland undertaken from 1850-1862, which constitutes the closest thing to a census now extant for mid-19^th-century Ireland.  The Department owns the index for the following cities and counties:  Belfast, Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Fermanagh, Limerick, Longford, Monaghan, Tipperary, and Waterford. 

Special – Micro HD629 .S9 W3 1988  

Surname Index to the …Griffith's Valuation of Ireland 

IV. Spinning Wheel Entitlement Lists 

A survey was undertaken in 1796 of those planting flax and producing linen cloth at home.  While the cloth industry was concentrated in Ulster, spinners could be found throughout Ireland and surviving survey entries exist for thirty of Ireland's thirty-two counties.  The "Spinning Wheel Survey" serves as a partial census of the "respectable" working poor and the lower-to-middle middle-class, i.e. those people who could afford a spinning wheel or wheels and the related accoutrements of the trade.   

Special - Micro CS480 .A458 1986   

Surname Index for the 1796 Spinning Wheel Premium Entitlement Lists of Ireland  

V. Irish Newspapers/Magazines 

The Biographical Notices… and Index to Biographical Notices… are indexes of personal names extracted from selected newspapers in the southern half of the island.  They note births, deaths, marriages, confirmations, etc. and are useful for linking names with localities.

While its coverage focuses on Ulster, the Belfast Newsletter covers events in (and includes biographical notices from) the entire island.  The name and ship indexes included are of particular interest to family historians.     

Special – Micro DA916.8 .F4 1969           Biographical Notices (Primarily Relating to 
                                                       Counties Cork and Kerry) Collected 
                                                       From Newspapers, 1756-1827; With a 
                                                       Few References 1749-1755  

Special – Micro DA916.8 .F4 I45 1985        Index to Biographical Notices in the Newspapers of Limerick, Ennis,Clomel and Waterford, 1758-1821  

Special – Micro PN5149 .B43 B45 1992      The Belfast Newsletter, 1737-1800  

Special – Micro PN5149 .B43 B453 1993    Belfast Newsletter Index, 1738 – 1800 

VI. Cemeteries, Gravestones, Etc. 

Wandering through Irish cemeteries looking for gravestones of long-dead ancestors is a fruitful source of genealogical data. Fortunately for genealogists, local historical societies in Ireland sometimes publish transcriptions of gravestones in their localities. 

Special CS488 .A7              Fund for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, "Reports" (7 vols. plus index -- covers all of Ireland) 

Special – Ref CS497 .A57 G7  Gravestone Inscriptions: County Antrim (vols. 1-2) 

Special – Ref CS497 .B44 C57 1982  Gravestone Inscriptions: Belfast (vols. 1-4) 

Special - Ref CS497 .N6 C5   Gravestone Inscriptions: County Down (vols. 1, 2, 5,   6, 8-20 in print; vols. 3, 4, and 7 on microfiche) 

VII. Wills 

Given the dearth of Irish census records, wills have become an important source of Irish genealogical information.  Listed below are the published guides to Irish wills available in the Department.   

Special CS482 .A54 1998   Registry of Deeds, Dublin: Abstracts of Wills, 1708-1785  

Special CS482 .I6 1997     Index to the Act or Grant Books and to original wills of the                                     Diocese of Dublin (c.1638) to the year 1800   

Special CS482 .P62 1997    Indexes to Irish Wills. 

Special CS482 .V5 1997     Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810. 

Special - Ref CS484 .C4 1972   A Guide to Copies & Abstracts of Irish Wills         

Special – Ref CS484 .G85 1998 Guide to the Dublin Genealogical Office (includes
index to the Will Abstracts in the DGO)   

VIII. Irish Localities 

Irish geographic names (for villages, parishes, poor-law unions, towns, counties, etc.) sometimes are difficult to "place."  An excellent descriptive source for place-names as they existed in the 19^th-century is: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis. Lewis is best used in conjunction with A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland, by Brian Mitchell, which includes maps of Irish counties, dioceses, probate districts, parishes, baronies, and poor-law unions. 

Special – Oversize DA979 .L48 A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 2 vol. plus atlas 

Special - Ref G1830 M5 2000    A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland  

IX. Manuscript Resources: Estate Papers, Personal Papers, Etc. 

Richard J. Hayes, for many years the director of the National Library of Ireland, undertook (over several decades) a monumental survey of Irish manuscripts in Irish, British, and continental archives.  The resulting volumes include many items of genealogical interest.   

"Hayes" is divided into the following sections:  "Persons," "Subjects," "Places," and "Dates."  Please consult vol. 1 for an introduction to the entire series.  References to the manuscript repositories involved sometimes are cryptic.  Most of the libraries, archives, and museums mentioned now have Websites (sometimes with online searchable catalogues) from which addresses can be obtained.

Special – Ref DA910 .D851 1965     Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilization ( 11 vols. + 3 supplemental vols.) 

B. THE IRISH IN NORTH AMERICA 

I. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 

The Passenger and Immigration Lists Index consists of a personal name index to hundreds of genealogy books, generally items published before 1900.  The numeral recorded in heavy black type as part of an entry in these volumes refers to the book from which the entry was extracted, as listed on the inside front cover, and the first several pages, of a given volume.  You can determine whether or not the St. Thomas libraries own a particular book referenced by consulting CLICnet (http://clicnet.clic.edu/search/ ). 

Special – Ref CS68 .F537 1981 Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (3 vols.) 

Special – Ref CS68 .P38 1990   Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1986-90 
    Cumulative Supplements (3 vols.)

II. Passenger/Immigration/Gravestone Lists  

The Department of Special Collections holds a small collection of passenger and immigration lists and gravestone inscriptions relating to Irish who immigrated to the United States. 

Special - Ref CS68 .B748 1977  Ship Passenger Lists: National and New England
    (1600-1825)

Special - Ref CS68 .B749 1978  Ship Passenger Lists: New York and New Jersey     
    (1600-1825)  

Special - Ref CS68 .B75 1979   Ship Passenger Lists: the South (1538-1825)

Special - Ref CS68 .B76 1980  Ship Passenger Lists: Pennsylvania and Delaware       
   (1641-1825)

Special - Ref CS68 .P37 1990   Passengers to America

Special - Ref CS68 .T461 1982 Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore 1820-1834. 

Special - Ref CS411 .A3 1992  An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigration to   
  Philadelphia, 1803-1850. 

Special - Ref CS448 .M5 1988  Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871 … Passengers Sailing  
                                         from Londonderry to America. 

Special – Ref E184 I6 D63 1997    Irish Emigrants in North America, Parts 1, 2 & 3 

Special – Ref E184 I6 D63 2000    Irish Emigrants in North America, Part 4 and 5 

Special - Ref E184 .I6 F25 1983      The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851 (7 vols.)

Special – Ref E184 I6 J64 1997       Irish Emigration to New England through the port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1841 – 1849

Special - Ref E184 .I6 S34          Passengers from Ireland … Arriving at American   
      Ports Between 1811 and 1817. 

Special – Ref F60 I6 M87 2000    Irish Famine Immigrants in the state of Vermont:  
                                            Gravestone Inscriptions 

Special – Ref JV7711 E37 1978    Emigrants From Ireland, 1847 – 1852: State Aided  
                                            Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland

III. The Search for Missing Relatives 

Since many Irish families immigrated to the United States piecemeal (e.g. a father one year, a wife and children the next), it was a common for family members to lose track of one another.  When this occurred, "personal" notices frequently were placed in newspapers with a heavy Irish-American readership. These notices often link a name with a location both in Ireland and in the United States.

Special - Ref F73.9 .I6 S43 1989     The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot  (1831-1865) -- 5 vols.  

Special - Ref CS483 .D4 2001         Irish Relatives and Friends: From Information Wanted Ads in the Irish-American, 1850 - 1871 

C. PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Genealogical periodicals often include both Irish and Irish-American references.  Listed below are two resources housed in the Department that include numerous citations of interest to Irish genealogists. You can determine whether or not a journal referenced in these indexes are held in the St. Thomas libraries by consulting the "Journal Title" section of the CLICnet : ( http://clicnet.clic.edu/search/ ). 

Special - Ref CS42 .G467  Genealogical Periodical Annual Index), 1976 – present