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Eneclann recently released an interesting new CD: Ireland's Memorial Records: World War 1 1914-1918. At the end of that war, the Committee of the Irish National War Memorial compiled the information on this disk under the direction of the Earl of Ypres. The result was eight volumes of information about 49,400 49,000 Irishmen who served in the British Army and lost their lives fighting in the Great War. Published in 1923, it is the most complete record known to exist, but only one hundred copies were printed. Now Eneclann has put these volumes onto CD-ROM, where you can easily search for relatives and then view the page as it was originally published.
An Irish-American man has published a genealogical research guide of County Longford's residents in pre-Famine days. Best of all, this new book is available both in print, as a CD-ROM, and even as two different versions of a downloadable file.
County Longford Residents Prior to the Famine: A Transcription and Complete Index of the Tithe Applotment Books of County Longford, Ireland (1823 - 1835) by Guy Rymsza aims to determine the origins of Famine-era ancestors. Rymsza compiled the work after discovering the ancestral house, complete with relatives still living in it, from which his great-great-grandfather had departed Ireland in the mid-1800s.
The Irish Ancestor was the name of a semi-annual printed journal that was published from 1969 to 1986. The aim of the journal, which was produced on a non-profit making basis, was the collection and publication of original source material and other items of interest concerning Irish genealogy, biography, and domestic history. The Irish Ancestor was edited by Rosemary ffolliott. (That is not a typo error: her name begins with a double-F and is normally written in lower case.)
Elizabeth Petty Bentley has just released a revised and expanded Fifth Edition of the Genealogist's Address Book, produced by Genealogical Publishing Company (GPC). I have used earlier versions of this book a number of times in years past to find addresses or just to find societies devoted to specific interests, such as Italian, French-Canadian and other ethnic heritage groups. This week I tried the same thing with the latest version and found it to be much easier to use.
Genealogical Publishing Company (GPC) has announced that the all-new 5th Edition of The Genealogist's Address Book, by Elizabeth Petty Bentley, will soon be released as a CD-ROM disk. This is a radical change for this "book" as previous versions have always been published as 8-1/2" x 11" paperback publications. The Fourth Edition, printed in 1998, had over 800 pages, and the new edition is presumed to have even more information.
Millisecond Publishing Company produces CD-ROM databases of many notable people, showing how they are related. I have described the company's products before, including the American & European Family Forest Millennium Edition, at http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0001.htm and at http://www.eogn.com/archives/news0119.htm, Presidential Family Forest at http://www.eogn.com/archives/news9835.htm, and others. This week I had a chance to try a pre-release of the company's new Family Forest Leadership Edition, a CD-ROM disk for Windows computers.
This week I had a chance to use a new Windows CD-ROM of Irish genealogy information containing valuable records that many Irish researchers do not even know exist. During the infamous Tithe War of 1831-38, all Irish occupants of land were required to pay an annual tithe (or religious tax) of 10% of the agricultural produce generated by that holding. This money was demanded from all landholders, irrespective of their religion, and was paid directly to the official state church, the Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of Ireland.
Waldo Chamberlain Sprague started compiling the genealogies of all the early families of Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1947. Until his death eight years later, he created over six thousand index cards containing information on almost all the pre-1850 population of old Braintree. Some families from nearby Milton and Stoughton (both originally part of the town of Dorchester) were also included in his exhaustive work. These six thousand cards remained in the manuscript collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston. The cards were initially microfilmed for the Quincy Historical Society in 1963 and again for NEHGS in 1983. To look at Sprague’s definitive work, you have always needed to visit the NEHGS library or the reading room of the Quincy Historical Society. All of that has now changed, and this valuable collection is available to you, for use in your home, at a modest cost.
The following is an announcement from the New England Historic Genealogical Society:
Service in the militia or regular military generated a large number of records valuable to genealogical research. This brand new CD-ROM brings together several previously published, but difficult-to-find books:
This week I had a chance to use a new CD-ROM from Eneclann. This disk includes almost 1,000 documents from the National Archives of Ireland. The records chosen cover the 32 counties of Ireland and span the period from the late sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
Eneclann recently released an interesting new CD: Ireland's Memorial Records: World War 1 1914-1918. At the end of that war, the Committee of the Irish National War Memorial compiled the information on this disk under the direction of the Earl of Ypres. The result was eight volumes of information about 49,400 49,000 Irishmen who served in the British Army and lost their lives fighting in the Great War. Published in 1923, it is the most complete record known to exist, but only one hundred copies were printed. Now Eneclann has put these volumes onto CD-ROM, where you can easily search for relatives and then view the page as it was originally published.
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