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. ...
by Paul Gorry | Feb 18, 2019 | AGI, Back To Our Past, Genealogy, National Archives Ireland, PRONI, Record Repositories |
BackTo Our Past Belfast may not have been the biggest BTOP ever but there were plenty of people around and I enjoyed it greatly. Working with my AGI colleagues and the NAI [National Archives Ireland] staff was enjoyable. Meeting people (some for the first time;...
by Paul Gorry | Feb 12, 2019 | AGI, Eileen O'Byrne, Eilish Ellis, Genealogy |
Shock and horror! Today is the fortieth anniversary of my first day of work in genealogy. Where has all that time gone? I should add that I was a mere teenager then, albeit months away from not being one. It was a dream-come-true. A few days earlier I had my...
by Paul Gorry | Jan 22, 2019 | Ancestral Lines, Credentials for Genealogists, Descent, Genealogical Virus, Genealogy |
Predictive text often has us using odd words, conveying a message we never intended. Technology doesn’t always know what we’re thinking! To an extent there is a similarity with the automated ‘helpful’ suggestions we get from the websites of data-providing...
