“Tis Us” Supplemental Documents

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).

2. An Irish Blessing
3. This chart will help you understand family relationships such as first cousin once removed.
4. Tracy and Jim engagement announcement in the Livingston County Daily Press and Argus 02 Feb 1994
5. 1840 would have been about the time my great-grandfather, Michael McCloskey, immigrated to the Gatineau in Quebec. He was born in Derry, Ireland

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

15. Evictions during the Great Irish Famine were widespread.