It’s easier than ever to trace your ancestry, using online church records to DNA kits

Our column calls it a day with a look at recent progress aided by the internet

There are several ways to turn an interest in family history into paid work

This is the best piece of popular history publishing in Ireland for many years

Until recently, death records supplied no family information

The great annual family gathering causes the post-Christmas genealogical website spike

Evidently the B word is exclusively Irish, which clearly means something about the national psyche

This is the centre of the Irish family history universe

For anyone interested in local history in rural Ireland they are a magnificent treasure trove

New maps accompanying ‘Griffith’s Valuation’ just add to mountain of undated maps

The evolution of surnames has slowed throughout the developed world

How the Os and Macs came back to make their names

Because any Anglophone record-keepers who knew Irish had only a smattering, mistranslation was the rule

During the 17th century, the Gaelic institutions crumbled under the weight of the English conquest, taking with them the centralit(...)

True hereditary surnames were only introduced in Scandinavia in the late 18th century

There can be too much complaining, especially in the face of additional new transcripts

Between January and October 1875, William Malone noted down details of every household he visited, eventually ranging over the who(...)

Various arguments are used to keep a historical document from the public eye

Negative outcomes can be just as important as positive ones

Post-traumatic summer weather amnesia

The Pathé, Movietone and AP digital archives store a wealth of local history

Ancestor! Cure your erectile dysfunction now!

Rachel Dolezal has been accused of adopting a black identity, but can we really rewrite our own genealogical history?

Marion Bruére Quin may have partly inspired Joyce’s character, and provided a link with Lewis Carroll

Association of Professional Genealogists of Ireland has name change in light of globalisation

Glory be to the Ordnance Survey

Lovely, Gnarly Nitty-Gritty Dublin Records

Upcoming NLI parish record microfilm site is 90 per cent squint-free

Anyone with even the remotest interest in Irish genealogy should read this new report

The Other Clare Roots

A recent study in Nature maps very fine regional variations in genetic make-up in the UK

Healing the extended family

Standardised surnames and place names

But what has FindMyPast done for us lately?

The top 100 genealogy websites?

How not to run screaming from the microfilm room

Science, your mammy and the common cold

Pure Irish death

The revolution will continue in 2015

Surname maps: Ireland remains unique

The long and winding road to haystack of needles

Viking society contained very little in the way of humane prisons, flat-pack furniture or Lego

Weird foreign surnames. Like ‘Walsh’.

Online Catholic parish registers from the National Library of Ireland available in summer

Thom’s Directory online

Protestants and the Irish Society for Archives

RF Foster’s ‘Vivid Faces’ and genealogy

Pushing Irish jelly up a hill

What do we lose when records are digitised?

Surprisingly synchronised cycles

Back To Our Past 2014 takes place at the RDS

LinkedIn Hell

Guinness in the blood

The Mayor of Boston’s Family Tree

Long Live the Revolution!

The Monica Roberts Collection

The accumulation of tens of thousands of individual and family decisions drove people overseas

Are these your symptoms?

The work of local historians and genealogists

Free downloads from the (other) National Archives

Why can’t you find your ancestors online?

The General Register Office and IrishGenealogy.ie

False friends and Boston

Resurrecting Church of Ireland records

The General Register Office indexes online

The Placenames Commission improved by abolition

Accenuate the negative

Records for Bloomsday

Identifying an Irish place-name

Attack of the killer apostrophes

Why Irish administrative areas are so peculiar

Reverse genealogy

Gorgeous funerals

The Genealogy Roadshow and the No. 16 bus

Pre-1901 censuses launching today

Irish genealogy: hyper-competitive, post-modern capitalism?

The original records are rotting

Conga lines of dancing Northern Irish civil servants

Rootsireland must change to survive

Ancestry.com’s impending monopoly

There’s something about Paddy