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     Ancestry.com, Provo, Utah
     Website
http://www.ancestry.com/ (a subscription service offering online access to US censuses 1790-1930      and other records, as well as a growing number of European records, including Irish)

     Andrew J Morris, Farmington, Michigan, USA
     Website
http://www.ajmorris.com/dig/index.htm (microfiche, CD-ROM and digital publications)  

British Library, London, England 
Website http://www.bl.uk/ (features an on-line catalogue search facility)

Burke's Peerage and Gentry 
Website
http://www.burkes-peerage.net/ (publishers of the famous Peerage, 107th Edition 2003, and a range of works dealing with the families of British and Irish nobility and gentry, which are now accessible online on a subscription basis)

     CELT 

     Website http://www.ucc.ie/celt/  The Online Resource for Irish history, literature and politics. A project of the      History Department of University College Cork

for Irish Genealogical and Historical Studies, Carraig, Cliff Road, Windgates, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland
Website
http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/ (Director Sean Murphy MA, a private foundation established to disseminate reliable information, issue publications and provide training and other services)

Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster-American Folk Park, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Website
http://www.folkpark.com/centre_for_migration_studies/ (an academic and research centre, maintains the Irish Emigration Database Project)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Family History Information, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Website
http://www.familysearch.org/ (useful information, lists of publications, with guide to holdings of the Family History Library and links to network of Family History Centres, and FamilySearch facility allowing the International Genealogical Index and other resources to be searched online)

Clare County Library, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland
Website
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm contains a range of freely accessible databases relating to Co Clare, including  1901 Census, Griffith's Valuation and other sources. 

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Ireland and Northern Ireland 
Website
http://www.cyndislist.com/ireland.htm (the largest international listing of genealogical links, with     Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 

    Website http://www.genealogical.com/ (republishes out of print books and issues new titles) 

      Society of Ireland, 11 Desmond Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland 

    Website http://www.familyhistory.ie/ (publishes a quarterly journal and a range of genealogical source     materials)Genealogical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 

Website http://www.gsv.org.au/ (Irish Ancestry Group is a constituent member)General Register Office, Government Offices, Convent Road, Roscommon, Ireland (the headquarters is

  

D-ROM publications, now including an index to Griffith's Valuation for all Ireland)

Family Records Centre, London, England
Website
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/partners/frc-partner.htm (run jointly by the Public Record Office and the General Register Office to cater to the needs of genealogists and others interested in family history; see also UK Family History Online at http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/)

     Flyleaf Press         http://www.flyleaf.ie Irish based publisher of genealogical works.  Publisher is Dr. James      Ryan, author of several leading Irish genealogical books.

    Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Website
http://www.genealogical.com/ (republishes out of print books and issues new titles)
  

    Society of Ireland, 11 Desmond Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
    Website
http://www.familyhistory.ie/ (publishes a quarterly journal and a range of genealogical source     materials)

Genealogical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Website
http://www.gsv.org.au/ (Irish Ancestry Group is a constituent member)

General Register Office, Government Offices, Convent Road, Roscommon, Ireland (the headquarters is no longer 8-11 Lombard Street East, Dublin 2, where however a research facility is being maintained)
Open 9.30am-12.30pm, 2.15-4.30pm Mon-Fri (search and reproduction fees charged to all users)
Telephone 353-1-671 1000 Website
http://www.groireland.ie/ (no specific genealogical content)

General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Website
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/; a pay-per-view service enabling users to search not only vital records from 1855, but also parish registers and the 1891-1901 censuses, can be accessed at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

Heraldic Artists, 3 Nassau Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Website
http://www.hal.ie/ (a wide range of books on genealogy and heraldry available by mail order)

Infobel
Website http://www.infobel.com/world/default.asp (links to telephone directories of the world available online)

    Irish Ancestors 
    Website
http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/ (subscription genealogical service of the Irish Times, based on     Grenham's Recordfinder, with free surname and placename search facility)

Irish Genealogical Society International, St Paul, Minnesota, USA http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/index.html (the largest Irish genealogical society in the United States, with over 2,000 members)

     Irish Genealogy Ltd 

     Website http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ (useful for commissioning searches from the various county indexing      centres of the Irish Genealogical Project, but it should be noted that this is a commercial advertising site      only, and that many of the centres have only partial or limited indexes)

Irish Origins  http://www.irishorigins.com; a pay-to-view site offering access to Griffith's Valuation and other sources (can be accessed without charge on premises of National Library of Ireland)

Leitrim-Roscommon 1901 Census
Website
http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/1901census/, freely accessible databases of 1901 Census for Cos Leitrim and Roscommon, as well for parts of Cos Mayo, Sligo, Wexford, Westmeath, Galway.

Library of Congress Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, Washington, DC, USA
Website
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/lhg.html

National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, USA
Wesbsite
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html (contains useful information, details of publications and links to regional centres in the USA)

National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew, Surrey, England
Website
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ (a very sophisticated site, with much useful information, details of publications and links; the 1901 Census for England and Wales can be searched online for a fee at http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ )

National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Website 
http://www.naa.gov.au/

    National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    Website
http://www.archives.ca/index.html 
 
     National Archives of Ireland
, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland         10am-5pm Mon-Fri (reader's ticket      required, research free, self-service access to microfilm and    microfiche, and pay-card copying facilities)
     Telephone 353-1-478 3711 Website
http://www.nationalarchives.ie (contains some genealogical guidance,      as well as a facility to search online lists of some records, and Australian transportation records); for our      online Guide to the National Archives of Ireland go to http://homepage.tinet.ie/~seanjmurphy/nai

National Archives of Ireland List of Genealogical and Historical Researchers 
Website 
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/researchers.htm

National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Website 
http://www.archives.govt.nz/

National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Website
http://www.nas.gov.uk/

National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Open 10am-9pm Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm Thu-Fri, 10am-1pm Sat (reader's ticket or visitor's pass required, Genealogy Service Room now open, research free)
Telephone 353-1-6030200 Website
http://www.nli.ie/ (contains some genealogical guidance; catalogues searchable online)

National Library of Ireland Research Panel
Website http://www.nli.ie/family_hr.htm#com

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
Website
http://www.llgc.org.uk/

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Website
http://www.nehgs.org/ (the premier genealogical society in the United States)

OLochlainns Irish Family Journal 
Website
http://www.irishroots.com/ (republishes out of print books)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 66 Balmoral Avenue, Belfast BT9 6NY, Northern Ireland
Open 9.15am-4.45pm Mon-Fri, late opening Thu until 8.45pm (reader's ticket required, research free for all but professional researchers)
Telephone (01232) 251319 Website
http://www.proni.gov.uk/ (a model site, giving detailed guidance on using the records for genealogical research, and containing considerable information of all-Ireland relevance)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland List of Commercial Researchers 
Website
http://www.proni.gov.uk/research/searcher.htm

Surname Navigator 
Website
http://www.kuijsten.net/navigator/ (lists of searchable databases for Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, USA)

The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA), P.O. Box 619, Sudbury, MA  01776, USA
Website
http://tiara.ie (a nonprofit organization for Irish genealogical and historical research and education, contents include the results of a survey of genealogical services offered by Irish Heritage Centres)

University College Dublin, Adult Education Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Telephone 353-1-716 7123 Website
http://www.ucd.ie/~adulted (courses in genealogy and a range of other disciplines are provided; the catalogue of UCD Library can now be searched on-line at http://www.ucd.ie/library/)

UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service 
Website
http://www.genuki.org.uk/ (in terms of information and links, this is the most comprehensive site of its kind)

Valuation Office Ireland, Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1, Ireland
Open 9.30am-12.30pm, 2-4.30pm Mon-Fri (search fees charged)
Website
http://www.valoff.ie/ (records of genealogical relevance include Cancelled Valuation Lists from the 1850s onwards, and Valuation Maps)