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Biographies

• Irish in Iowa Biographies of Those Who Came From Co. Tyrone, Ireland
• Dictionary of Ulster Biography

Books

• Books Ireland (Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast)
• Books Ulster - New and used publications
• Four Courts Press, Dublin
• Free Irish eBooks - Index By Peter J. Clarke
• Historical Text Archive
• Kabristan Archives - Old Irish, Indian, Sri Lankan & West Indian Graveyards – indexes and publications
• Library Ireland
• Northern Ireland Publications Resource
• The Great Parchment Book Conserving, digitally reconstructing, transcribing and publishing the manuscript known as the Great Parchment Book. | In February 1786, a fire in the Chamber of London at the Guildhall in the City of London destroyed most of the early records of the Irish Society, so that very few 17th century documents remain. Among those which survived is the Great Parchment Book.
• Walker's Hibernian Magazine Index to Irish Marriages - downloadable

Church Records & Church Websites

• Ardstraw East Roman Catholic Parish, Newtownstewart: Baptisms 1860-1899
• Ardstraw Prebyterian Church
• Derryloran Church of Ireland - Parish Registers Now Online
• Drumragh Roman Catholic Parish, Derry Diocese - birth, marriage, death records from 1846
• Emerald Ancestors - commercial site with indexes to civil registration for births, deaths and marriages and more for the six counties of the North.
• Errigal Keerogue & Carnteel Parish Church of Ireland Baptisms - 1814 - 1852
• Fintona Roman Catholic Parish
• Killeeshil and Clonaneese Historical Society - The society has photographed copies of Church records in this area of Co Tyrone, and hope to put more online. Churches covered are Lower and Upper Clonaneese Presbyterian, Killeeshil, Anglican and RC, Castlecaulfield Presbyterian and Anglican. They are available to download by Society members, annual membership costs £10.
  Also early baptism records for Lower Clonaneese are on their website www.clonaneese.org.uk as a free resource.
• Leckpatrick Roman Catholic Parish - St. Mary's Chapel, Cloghcor
• National Archives Ireland - Roman Catholic Registers (all Ireland)
• Presbyterian Historical Society ~ information on records, publications, membership
  and Guide to Documentary Records
• Roman Catholic Diocese -
  • Armagh Diocese - links to most parishes
  • Clogher Diocese - links to most parishes
  • Derry Diocese - links to most parishes


• Trinity Presbyterian Church, Omagh - has a history of the congregation for sale
• St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Parish, Sion Mills

District Councils

• Derry & Strabane District Council
• Fermanagh & Omagh District Council
• Mid-Ulster District Council- Cookstown, Dungannon, Maherafelt
• Strabane - Beautiful old photos on-line

Emigration

• Database of Advertisements for Irish Immigrants Published in the Boston Pilot Information Wanted....From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a "Missing Friends" column with advertisements from people looking for "lost" friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 41,249 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot.
• CastleGarden.org - Records for 11 million immigrants into New York 1820-92
• Ellis Island
• Famine Irish Immigration
• Immigrant Ships
• Irish Immigrants Database
• Irish Passengers 1803
• Irish Times - links to ships lists by name & year
• LDS Immigrant Ancestors Project
• Library and Archives Canada - all databases including immigrants
• Lists of the J.J. COOKE Line - Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents. Sailings from Londonderry to Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Quebec, St. John New Brunswick & New Orleans Louisiana, 1847-1871
• Passenger Lists of McCorkell Line Ships Londonderry Ireland 1864
• New South Wales (Databases that have been digitized)
• Ralston and Belden Family Histories, ships passenger lists
• Ulster American Folk Park
• WebGen Australia - links to ships list

Families & Surnames from Co. Tyrone

• Arborealis Kilpatrick Family & local history studies by Alison Kilpatrick, whose research extends to counties Armagh, Londonderry, Mayo, & Tyrone, in Ireland... and more.
• ACHESON
• FERGUS
• FERGUSON of Farriter, parish of Killeeshil
• GARVIN or Girvin, parish of Aghaloo
• GREER/LENNOX etc
• GRIEVES
• HAYES
• HESSE/MILLS
• HUGGINS Family, Glenarb townland, Aghaloo Parish
• KENNEDY of Carland, parish of Donaghmore
• Kenny Allen's website
• KERR
• LANE & STRONG Families of Ulster
• LYNNs of Londonderry, Donegal, and Tyrone
• MARSHALL of Caledon and Glenkeen, parish of Aghaloo
• MARSHALL, W.F., Preacher & Poet 1888 - 1959
• McCAUSLAND
• McCAUSLAND, John (1836-1927)
• McELDOWNEY
• McGOUGHS, McGEOUGHS and McGEOGHS
• McKEE / KEE
• OAKMAN Family of Ulster
• SPEER or Spear, Parish of Donaghenry
• STEVENSON of Stewartstown
• TEMPLETON of Stewartstown
• THOMPSON, Parish of Aghaloo

Google Books (Read Online)

N.B. - not all pages in the recently published books are viewable

• The Identity of the Scottish Nation: An Historic Quest
• Irish Genealogical Abstracts from the "Londonderry Journal," 1772-1784 - By Donald M. Schlegel
• Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815: *N.B. - 57 hits for the search of "Tyrone"
• Reports, also Accounts and Papers Relating to Ireland 1816 *N.B. - 50 hits when 'Tyrone' is searched and includes a report 'ON ILLICIT DISTILLATION IN IRELAND'
• Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland - By John Gamble
• Springhill: An Old Ulster House and the People who Lived in it - By Mina Lenox-Conyngham

Graveyards / HeadStones

• Albany Presbyterian Cemetery, Killycolpy Parish - on the west shore of Lough Neagh
• Co. Tyrone Gravestone Photo Project - upload photos of your Co. Tyrone ancestor's gravestone buried anywhere in the world
• Dromore Old Cemetery
• Drumcoo Cemetery, Dungannon
• Grange / Old Donagheady / and Old Leckpatrick graveyard searchable database
• History from Headstones Ireland
• Leckpatrick Old Presbyteruian Cemetery Strabane Co. Tyrone
• St. Andrew's Church of Ireland, Killyman Parish
• St. Brigid (Brigit) Roman Catholic Church, Killyman Parish - at Laghey Corner, Cavan townland
• Sandholes Presbyterian Church
• St Patrick Cemetery Coagh, Cookstown; (2nd website) - by the Ballinderry Chapel
• Ulster War Memorials

Historical Societies & Websites

• Cappagh Historical Society
• Castlederg & District Family History Society
• Donaghmore Living History
• Eglish Historical Society
• Federation for Local Ulster Studies
• Glenelly Historical Society - Upper Badoney
• Irish Historical Studies - list of contents since 1990
• Killeeshil & Clonaneese Historical Society
• O'Neill Country Historical Society
• Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland
• Strabane History Society
• Trillick - history & images of the area
• West Tyrone Historical Society The society organises monthly lectures and occasional outings to places of historic interest. There is also an annual outing to more distant locations within the north of Ireland. The lectures are held at 8.00pm , usually on the last Wednesday of the month, at the Ulster American Folk Park near Omagh. New members are always welcome.

Land Divisions & Maps

• Fianna Guide
• Ireland Through Time - old maps
• Maps - historical maps from Northern Ireland Environmental Agency
• North Ireland (NI) ORDNANCE SURVEY
Old Strabane Blog Images from the 19th and early 20th century, integrated with Google StreetView.
• SeanRuad's wonderful search engine to find townlands
• The Placenames Database
• The Silver Bowl This page includes maps as well as charts and other information about people organized on the basis of place.
• Townland Maps *overlaid on Modern Maps*
• Tyrone Maps - Map of County Tyrone, Province of Ulster showing main towns, roads and mountains.
• Ulster - Old Maps Online
• Other Administrative Land Divisions

Newspapers & Publications

• Irish Genealogy eMagazine - 'Irish Lives Remembered' - FREE
• Papers Past – National Library of New Zealand Digitised Newspapers 1839-1945
• The Toronto Star Archives Used to be: Pages of the Past. Paid site. Value pricing at 1 week $9.95 CAD. Other subscriptions available.
• The Trove, Australia
• The Tyrone Constitution - mostly Protestant readers and events in the Omagh area
• The Ulster Herald - mostly Catholic readers and events in the Omagh area

Occupations

• To find an Old Occupation

Photos: Churches

• Armagh Diocese, Church of Ireland
• Clogher Diocese, Church of Ireland

Professional Researchers

• Forrest Research Services - Ulster Record Finder - Providing a value for money service for all of your research needs in Ulster, with extensive knowledge on the sources available for tracing Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. They offer a variety of different family history research packages to suit every budget ranging from an introductory consultation to the production of a comprehensive genealogical report including a FREE surname search of a large database.
• John Grenham Offers a free blog, a free browse and an affordable "paid subscription" option. Aims to provide a single reference source for any records needed to research Irish Ancestors, as well as a starting-point for anyone with a surname historically found in Ireland.
• Ulster Ancestry Fees - We are an Independent Family Research Organisation not connected with any other genealogy centre. We provide a specialist ancestral research service for those wishing to trace their family origins in Northern Ireland (Province of Ulster)
• Ulster Historical Foundation - Fees with some free searchable databases.

Repositories / Libraries

• General Register Office, Dublin - Purchase pre 1922 certificates online
• Library Ireland
• Linen Hall Library, Belfast
• National Archives of Ireland, Dublin
• National Library of Ireland, Dublin
• National Library of Ireland, Dublin - all manuscripts catalogued since 1990
• National Library of Ireland - Resources for Co. Tyrone - A Small Sample ONLY
• PRONI - Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast
• PRONI Church Records Guide - searchable by congregation and parish
• PRONI Freeholders Records, Pre 1840s registers and poll books - searchable
• PRONI The Ulster Covenant, 1912 - Half a million signatures - searchable
• PRONI Valuation Revision Book, 1864-1933 - Changes in land occupancy post-Griffiths Valuation - searchable
• PRONI Wills 1858-1943 - Indexes and some images - searchable
• Trove - National Library of Australia Digitised Newspapers 1840s-1955
• Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh
• Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast

Resources for Historical Information

• EEPI Enhanced Parliamentary Papers Online
• Internet Library of Early Journals
• Irish Manuscripts Commission
• Statistical Survey of Co. Tyrone - Statistical survey of the county of Tyrone, with observations on the means of improvement; drawn up in the years 1801, and 1802 for the consideration, and under the direction of the Dublin Society. By John M'Evoy.
• Views of the Famine Contemporary newspaper articles and illustrations from the Great Hunger in Ireland, 1845-52
• Workhouses - history, location, etc.

Searchable Databases

• Ask About Ireland - Griffiths Valuation c1860 and images
• Bready Ancestry: (Leckpatrick & Donagheady Parishes) Databases include names of 17th century Plantation settlers, church records, Abercorn estate rentals, gravestone inscriptions, 1901 census, school records, nineteenth century valuations, and much more. An excellent site.
• Failte Romhat: Co. Tyrone records include Irish Flax Growers List 1796, Pigot & Company Provincial Directory of Ireland 1824, Index to Griffith's Valuation
• FamilySearch.org BROWSABLE IMAGES - Transcripts of memorials of deeds, conveyances and wills, 1708-1929
• GenDexNetwork - over 34 Million entries - family trees from around the world. Add yours!
• Griffiths Valuation - Search Griffiths Valuation by name and/ or place
• Ireland's Memorial Records - World War I Irish Dead, over 49,000 records
• IrishGenealogy.ie - Civil Registration certificates and more
• Marriage Database - Early Irish Marriages 1600-1865
• National Archives Ireland - 1901 & 1911 Census
• National Archives Ireland - Roman Catholic Registers (all Ireland)
• New Brunswick Irish Portal - links to several databases involving Irish arrivals, letters, etc. in New Brunswick
• Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Search for term: Tyrone, visit hits, open .pdf document to view the information. (you may have to agree to disclaimer first)
• ObituaryNetwork.org Over 16,000 obits - a permanent obituary archive, add your obits too!
• Plantation of Ireland (History World)
• Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies (University of Ulster)
• Registry of Deeds Index Project
• Seige of Londonderry (Lynx 2 Ulster)
• Old Strabane Web Full resource site. Worth a visit.
• Ulster Towns Directory 1910 (Library Ireland)

Tyrone Websites & Pages Of Interest

• Dr. Jane Lyons - Genealogical Record Information
• Dusty Docs - Links to Free Genealogical Records
• Co. Tyrone (Irish Genealogical Projects)
• Co. Tyrone (Northern IrelandGenWeb Project)
• Kenneth Allen Geograph Start at Dromore County Tyrone, then click around to view more photos
• Nidex Northern Ireland Genealogy
• Olive Tree Sitemap
• Ulster Scots: The Scots-Irish: The Thirteenth Tribe (Ulster Ancestry)

Tyrone Websites - Commercial

• FindMyPast.ie
• History from Headstones
• RootsIreland.ie RootsIreland offers a unique database of more than 20 million Irish records.
  It contains data from 34 county genealogy centres on the island of Ireland. The main sources on the site are Irish Catholic and other church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths which are the most important source for tracing Irish ancestry.

Tyrone Websites - Community / Social Media

• Castlederg & District Family History Society - Facebook
• Dromore - on Facebook
• RootsChat.Com - Tyrone
• Strabane History Society - Facebook
• Ulster Ancestry Genealogy & Ancestry Forums
• UlsterHeritage Forum
• UlsterHeritage Magazine
• West Ulster Genealogical Services on Facebook (Donegal, Tyrone & Londonderry)