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 | 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;...
