Genealogy Aids

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Traditional Genealogy

Introduction

• Getting Started
• Useful CMA Index / Database Facts

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Genetic Genealogy

General

• DNA Testing: A Primer by Cynthia McAlister Bresson
  

Family Tree DNA (FTDNA)

• FTDNA Tools by Jim Brewster, 2020
  
• Instructions to Transfer Autosomal DNA Results to FTDNA by Jim Brewster, 2020
  
• Adding Matches to Your Tree at FTDNA by Jim Brewster, 2020

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Online Resources

Ireland

• genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/index.html
  Bann Valley Genealogy: genealogy records of families in the Bann Valley area of Ireland.


• https://cotyroneireland.com/
  County Tyrone--Public Records Search: public records search tool for Counties Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry, & Fermanagh genealogy.


• www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/
  Department of Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht: birth, marriage, and death indexes from 1864 to 1921 for the whole of Ireland (from 1845 for non-Catholic marriages) and from 1922 to 2013 for the Republic of Ireland.


• www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/
  Irish Census: Irish census by county (1821-1911).


• irelandxo.com
  Ireland Reaching Out (IrelandXO): a volunteer-based, non-profit initiative to provide people of Irish descent with information regarding the home Parishes/Counties of their forebearers, including people (ancestors and neighbors), history, maps, and significant structures in those locales.


• magheragenealogy.org/
  The Maghera and District Genealogical & History Society: a cooperative website for amateur genealogists for collecting and sharing genealogical data from the South Derry/Londonderry area of Ireland.


• www.nationalarchives.ie/genealogy/our-genealogy-website/
  The National Archives of (the Republic of) Ireland Genealogy Website: "National Archives has developed a Genealogy website to facilitate access to digitised collections that are useful to family and local history research."


• www.logainm.ie/en/
  Placenames Database of Ireland: Type a placename (in Irish or English, including street names) to locate it on a map.


• www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni
  The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI): the official archive for Northern Ireland.


• irishdeedsindex.net/deeds_index/name_index.php
  Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland: an index by name of the Registry of Deeds, which is a repository of records of wills, land transactions in Ireland, and other deeds from 1709-1929.


• www.rootsireland.ie/
  RootsIreland: data from 34 county genealogy centres on the island of Ireland; the main sources are Irish Catholic and other church records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths.

Scotland

• electricscotland.com
  Scottish Record Society: Various official Scottish records, including Commissariot Records, Burials, Interments, Marriages, Baptisms, Parish Registers, Monumental Inscriptions, Protocol Books, Rolls, Inventories, Family Papers, and other items of interest.


• www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/search.html
  The Scottish Emigration Database: "The database seeks to identify patterns of movement from Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960 using information transferred digitally from the passenger manifests of the Board of Trade's Statistical Department."

General

• www.cyndislist.com/
  Cyndi's List: a comprehensive, categorized, & cross-referenced list of links that point to genealogical research sites online.


• www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page
  LDS FamilySearch Research Wiki: find birth, death, marriage, and census records and other genealogy resources.