The following links provide additional information to our family history that was not contained in our family history book, ‘Tis Us’. Click the link to load the page.
1. Gráinne Ni Mháille (anglicised as Grace O’Malley).
6. Irish Emigration Records (passenger lists, ship names, ports of entry, etc)
7. The Dubrody Irish Famine Museum – best site for information about the cause of Irish immigration, The Great Famine.
8. Steve Morse – This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications.
9. Immigants at Grosse Ile Quarentine Station, 1832 -1927
10. “They Took the Boat”. This is an interesting read about the Irish “dispora” (any group of people forced to leave their homeland).
11. This article was published in 1800 in the Ontario Historical Society. It tells a story that is likely applicable to many of the early settlers of Ontario. This page does contain some genealogical information, but its’ primary value is as a description of how life was lived circa 1800. As well, for those who want to find out more about the American Revolution, and how it impacted the lives of the Loyalists
13. Irish music coming from Kylemore Abbey. Beautiful scenery that you will recognize. Around the 21:00 minute mark, a Notre Dame professor explains her “new” Irish Studies program that sounds like they copied from Aquinas. Most of the conversation is in Gaelic.
13. The Titanic Chronicles
14. How to Research Irish Census 1901, 1911, and Earlier
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