Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Carmel Gilbride has written a research tip on. Family History Research and what trends to be aware of Each family is unique in its decisions...
Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Fiona Fitzsimons has written a research tip on. Tenants on Crown estates in Ireland Between 1848 and 1851 over...
Regular readers will remember that in June 2012, Eneclann and Ancestor Network won the tender to provide the Genealogy Advisory Service in the National Library and National Archives. We received a warm welcome from the Director of the National Library, for our “enhanced family history service.” One of the first...
Each newsletter we offer you a research tip written by one of our expert researcher’s, in the hope that we can somehow help along your genealogy path. This week Fiona Fitzsimons has written a research tip on British Armed Forces Army Records. British Armed Forces Army records The most complete online collection of historic British Armed...
Family history concerns itself with mapping people to places. We need to be familiar with the places where events in our ancestors lives may have taken place. One of our ‘go to’ sources for this information is the work of Brian Mitchell, including his Guide to the Parishes of Ireland. Guide to...
We often come across people researching their ancestors who are disappointed with the lack of details in mid-19th century marriage registers. In Roman Catholic marriage registers the name of the bride and groom, their witnesses and sometimes a townland were the only details recorded. But there is one other record...
As co-ordinator of the Twentyx20 genealogy talks in the NLI this summer, I had the enjoyable task of attending all the lunch-time talks, and meeting each of the speakers. One of the talks that really stood out for me, was by Damian Shiels who spoke on the Irish in the...
Last Winter Tourism Ireland commissioned Eneclann research expert Fiona Fitzsimons to research the Irish family history of Princess Charlene of Monaco. “At the outset, I had no preconceived ideas of what I might find during research” The Fagan family history. The Princess’s Irish ancestors were the Fagan family, probably...
Using newly available records on www.findmypast.ie renowned genealogist Fiona Fitzsimons discovered Clooney’s Irish ancestors didn’t jump, but were pushed. Clooney’s Irish ancestors were small farmers from Windgap, co. Kilkenny. In the 1850s local farmers competed for land. This sometimes tipped-over into violence. New evidence proves that in 1852 Nicholas Clooney (George’s great...
As John Meagher from TheIndependent.ie discovers, researchers here at Eneclann are hard at work digitising the records of Ireland’s war dead so that they shall never be forgotten, Brian Donovan Eneclann Researcher and Director gives us his take on World War 1 and how “We owe it to these men who...
For immediate release Eneclann guides Obamas through their Irish Family History At lunchtime Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia Ann and Sasha, took part in a private genealogy event about the President’s Irish ancestors at a special exhibit at the Long Room in the Old Library in Trinity...