by Paul Gorry | May 19, 2020 | Accredited Genealogists Ireland, AGI, Baltinglass, Coronavirus, GAS, Genealogy, National Archives Ireland, Professional Genealogists, Record Repositories, Registry of Deeds |
I haven’t been in a record repository for over two months. That hasn’t happened to me since the mid-1980s, when I took six months off to supervise a parish register indexing project. Even then I managed the odd trip to Dublin to feed my habit. Right now I’m...
by Paul Gorry | Apr 27, 2020 | Books, Claire Santry, Databases, Eileen O'Byrne, Genealogical Office, Guide Books, IGRS, John Grenham, Margaret Dickson Falley, Record Repositories, Registry of Deeds, Rosemary ffolliott, Wallace Clare |
Not too long ago most people beginning to trace their ancestors found their way to a society they could join, a guide book they could read and / or a conference they could attend. Many people still do, but as genealogy grows in popularity it is becoming more of an...
by Paul Gorry | Feb 19, 2020 | Accredited Genealogists Ireland, AGI, Back To Our Past, Coolattin, Credentials for Genealogists, Genealogy, Laura Whitmore, Professional Genealogists, WDYTYA? |
Supposedly evenings are when television programmes have their greatest impact. Really, with so many channels now, it’s just by chance that people see any programme, unless it’s the news or Nationwide or something spectacular like Line of Duty or something addictive...
by Paul Gorry | Jan 10, 2020 | Baltinglass, Books, Genealogy, Local History, Stratford Family, Weavers' Square |
I sometimes think that I’m more familiar with people who lived in Baltinglass in the past than those who live here now. I mean people who were here in the nineteenth century in particular. It’s not that I communicate with their spirits or anything like that! I...
by Paul Gorry | Sep 15, 2019 | AGI, ASGRA, BCG, Books, Credentials for Genealogists, Genealogy, ICAPGen, Professional Genealogists, Society of Genealogists |
Gorry has done a service to the genealogical community. That was one of a number of complimentary remarks in a review of my book in the latest (September 2019) edition of the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. A copy of the review was sent to me the...
by Paul Gorry | Mar 21, 2019 | Catholic Qualification Rolls, Census Returns, Claire Santry, Convert Rolls, Databases, Eileen O'Byrne, Genealogy, National Archives Ireland, Penal Laws, Record Repositories, Roman Catholics, Wallace Clare |
In the last few weeks someone ‘Liked’ a Facebook post I published in September 2016. This made me read the post again and decide that it was worth repeating as a blogpost. Little has changed in the two and a half years since I first published the piece. ...
