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The Ulster Historical Foundation team and I had a rollicking good time talking about the challenges Americans have doing Irish research. Fintan Mullan, Executive Director of UHF; Gillian Hunt, Research Officer; and William Roulston, Research Director of UHF walk us through what not to do in our genealogy research.

Five Common Misconceptions or Mistakes in Irish Research:

1. Irish research is pointless as the records were all destroyed.
2. The only records to search are for the period your ancestors were in Ireland.
3. The Irish location recorded in American records is definitely correct.
4. You can always be sure of the origins of a family because of the surname.
5. People never changed religious affiliation.

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 Get ready to take notes and make your research plan for Irish research!

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Music: My Days Have Been So Wondrous and Free, composed by Francis Hopkinson in 1788 in Philadelphia, www.amclassical.com, Creative Commons license, some rights reserved.

Ulster Historical Foundation - ancestryireland.com - be sure to check out their research services, record links, and courses.

Irish Genealogy Essentials Course Online Feb-March 2021

Beyond 2022 Project - beyond2022.ie

1911 and 1901 Ireland Census - census.nationalarchives.ie

Griffith’s Valuation - askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation

National Archives of Ireland - genealogy.nationalarchives.ie

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) - www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni

General Register Office, Northern Ireland - www.nidirect.gov.uk/groni

Historic birth, marriage and death records for Ireland - www.irishgenealogy.ie

Registry of Deeds online index project - http://irishdeedsindex.net/index.html

Roman Catholic parish registers, up to 1880 - http://registers.nli.ie/

PRONI Historical Maps viewer - www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/search-proni-historical-mapsviewer

Northern Ireland Place Name Project - www.placenamesni.org

Placenames Database of Ireland - logainm.ie