There was a great interest in searching for the ancestors during the 19th century. It was expressed in individuals publishing genealogies and other collections. Sometimes you will see books published around the turn of the century on library shelves, but more often, the fate of these books is a library and/or garage sales.
Too often are historical and genealogical records lost in time and the tedious life work of individual researchers is forgotten. That means that the great work of past eras has to be repeated if the records from which they took their information survived.
In earlier times, before the Internet, we exchanged information through the mail. Yes, all of that sharing has gone away. Disappeared. We now have the Internet to help us find information. Hopefully, the future of genealogy over the Internet will be more expansive, offer more data, and churn out lost records.
I am excited to report that the following Irish Genealogy has been added to Genealogy-Books.com and is available to members of GeorgiaPioneers.com. (After logging in, click on “Genealogy-Books”, then “Irish Genealogy Records”). Some of this material dates from the 1700s! Rare.
This special section (on Genealogy-Books) has been created in the hope of finding more Irish records to help researchers. Ireland was engaged in so much conflict, that its official records do not begin until the 1800s. (To view existing records for that period, go to familysearch.org)
I was lucky to find several old issues (long times out-of-print) of the Irish-American Historical Society. Many names of the pioneer emigrants from Northern Ireland are listed.
Emigrants to America
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Tennessee
South Carolina
Boston
Connecticut
Illinois
Kentucky
Massachusetts (Pelham)
Missouri
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Virginia
Traced Families
John Barry
James Caldwell of the Revolutionary War
Hugh Cargill
Dorrance of Rhode Island
Thomas Fawsett
Fitzgerald-Slocum
Haleys
Irish Biographies
Lewis, Burke, Preston, Lyons, Burkes, Michie, Mahone, and McGuire of Virginia
Thomas Lewis
Dennis McCarty of Rhode Island
Barnabas Palmer
Rourke and Hotchiss of Rhode Island
Savage Family
James Stevenson
General John Sullivan
Matthew Watson
Miscellaneous
Vessels from Ireland to America
Commerce between Ireland and Rhode Island
Irish Marriages
Irish-French Officers in the Revolutionary War
Irish Revolutionary War Soldiers in Kentucky
Irish Prisoners on the “Jersey” prison ship during the Revolutionary War