Electronic resources beginning with ‘I’

This site provides a guide to caring for and restoring old houses and includes a directory covering Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and South Africa. The site also includes a FAQ section, lists of books, essays on various topics such as paint removal and joinery, and a research directory.

Website states 'collect and catalog valuable civil engineering relevant Internet resources so that people can find information fast and explore how to take advantage of Internet technology to serve the civil engineering community.

A bibliographic database on Economics. There are over 325,000 items (such as working papers, articles and software components) on the database, and over 225,000 can be downloaded in fulltext.

A list of book collecting resources compiled by ILAB, including the ABC for book collectors published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library.

An index to reproductions of Australian artworks in books and exhibition catalogues.

A collection of digitised photographs and maps to support the teaching of history at the upper secondary school and university level.

This site provides the full text of some International Monetary Fund staff country reports. These reports are available in PDF and require Adobe Acrobat to read them.

A listing of immigrant ships to New Zealand from the UK and Ireland, with links to information about passengers where available.

An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.

The purpose of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia ( ISAA ) is to encourage and support individuals who undertake independent scholarly work outside the nation’s formal institutes of education and research; to promote such scholarship; and to stimulate public debate in Australia.

The ISAA Review, now a refereed journal, appears biannually. Its contents reflect ISAA’s efforts to encourage dialogue between disciplines.

NSW State Records online index to passengers who arrived at Moreton Bay (Brisbane) - then part of the colony of NSW - between 1848 and 1859 under assisted immigration schemes.

Queensland (known as Moreton Bay prior to separation) became a separate colony from NSW on the 10th of December, 1959. Queensland's State boundary was subsequently extended slightly south and west into NSW on the 12th of April, 1862.

The term 'assisted immigrant' refers to those people whose passage was subsidised or paid for through one of the several assisted immigration schemes which operated to New South Wales from the United Kingdom and other countries.

NSW State Record series used to compile the Moreton Bay index are:

(1) NRS 5316 ( Reels 2134-2143 - 31 vols) Persons on Bounty Ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists) 1848-59 - the entries record for each immigrant the name, age, sex, calling, marital status, native place and education. From 1848 series 9 contains more information about each immigrant and so is the more useful series.

(2) NRS 5317, Persons on bounty ships to Sydney, Newcastle and Moreton Bay (Board's Immigrant Lists) 1848-91 - arranged alphabetically by the name of ship within each year, the series generally provides more information about immigrants than the Agent's Immigrant Lists (NRS 5316), which it complements, but it is incomplete. Each entry records the name, age, marital status, calling, native place, religion, and education of the immigrant. Also recorded are the names of relations in the colony; names and addresses of parents; and any complaints respecting treatment aboard ship.

The majority of ships travelled from a British port to Sydney. However, there were numerous arrivals from Hamburg in the 1850s, when considerable numbers of immigrants from Germany were recruited to come to NSW (and Moreton Bay until 1859).

Produced by the Descendants of Convicts Group in 2003, this index concerns convict movements in the Colony of New South Wales (encompassing what is now New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) of nearly 10,000 convicts for the period 1827 to 1853.

It includes both convicts transported from England or English colonies, as well as colonial convictions. Colonial convicts were those persons who were born in the colony and committed an offence, or others who came free and subsequently committed an offence, or alternatively those convicts who had served their sentences and then re-offended.

The CDROM is in two main sections, the first being an index - which is easily navigatable using the alphabet hyperlink buttons. Names in the index are arranged alphabetically by surname together with the date of second transportation and from where.

If you click on the surname in the index, this takes you to the full entry which lists: Surname; Alias; Given Name; Ship of Arrival to the Colony; Ship of Second Transportation; Date of Second Transportation; Transported From; Transported To; Page; Location; Reel No: Remarks.

The information was compiled from microfilm of Colonial Secretary's Correspondence (reels 624 & 1030) held in the State Records of New South Wales. Copies of documents can be ordered on their website at Microform Purchase.

Parliamentary papers are documents and papers tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament, such as reports, returns and statements from departments and authorities, committees of inquiry and royal commissions.

The full text of articles from sports history journals in the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles collection. The publications of the Australian Society for Sports History are included, along with official reports from the Olympic Games and the journals of international sports organisations.

An index to Surveyor General's maps and plans, 1792-1886 and Index to Surveyors' letters, 1822-55 held at State Records New South Wales.

Links to online databases of convict records from the State records NSW collections.

The India Office Records is the custodian of the archives of

East India Company (1600-1858)

Board of Control (1784-1858)

India Office (1858-1947)

Burma Office (1937-1948 )

The India Office Records’ collections contain much information of great interest to family historians, mainly relating to European and Eurasian people. There are biographical sources for official and non-official inhabitants of the many overseas areas where the East India Company and India Office had influence, and also for home staff based in Britain.

Use this website to search:

300,000 births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials in the India Office Records

biographical notes from a variety of sources

for mainly British and European people in India c.1600-1949

for people in other countries connected with the history of the British in India

Well-set-out links to Infobel's world telephone books. Most sites include street maps.

Select and compare data about multiple countries by creating graphs using statistics provided by the United Nations. Data categories include population, economy, health, technology and environment. Part of the UN Cyberschoolbus teaching and learning project.

This site contains information about countries, events, geography and statistics worldwide.

INFOQUICK provides a comprehensive index to articles about Australia and Australians, published in the Sydney Morning Herald and associated publications: Sun Herald, Eastern Herald, Northern Herald and Good Weekend from 1988 onwards.

A facsimile reproduction of the book Information Victoria, published in 1938 as a travel book, the CD has an immense amount of information on every town in Victoria and along its borders in South Australia and New South Wales.

The book is divided by district,shires and towns. Each entry gives a description of the shire, includes a street directory, provides public information on police, hospitals, fire, newspapers, major business and other items of public interest, and gives names of towns, brief descriptions and distances to the towns in the shire. Relevant photographs and advertisements are dispersed throughout. Several of the larger towns and areas also include a map.

One section of the book includes road charts with detailed directions on travelling from town to town on different routes between Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane, as well as around Melbourne and the whole of Victoria.

(Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Germany)

Evidence-based consumer health and patient information.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

This site provides free searching of a keyword searchable index to more than 20 000 general interest periodicals. The service offers access to full-text articles for a fee.

This page from the Australian Museum contains general information about insects with links to other resources (including Australia) on the Internet. Also see the Australian Museum's other insect site, Bugwise.

Welcome to Inside Break, the HSC resources website provided by Manly, Pittwater and Warringah Council Libraries full of information and links to lectures, library resources, past exams, and more.

A list of HSC English suggested related texts and resources based on the 2009-2012 Area of Study: Belonging. This list will be continually updated and is intended as a guide only of suggested titles for additional texts for the student's choosing. Many of these resources are available for loan at your local library.

Three proponents of Intelligent Design present their views of design in the natural world. Each view is immediately followed by a response from a proponent of evolution. The report opens with an introduction by Natural History magazine and concludes with an overview of the ID movement

Official website of the IAAF provides information on track and field events, including world records and athlete rankings, entry standards and event timetables for Beijing 2008.

The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) was formed in 1995. It builds on the foundational work of the former Australian Studies Association (AUSTA). The formation of the new association was a recognition that Australian studies is now an international enterprise with Australian studies centres and professional associations throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

InASA's aim is to promote links between the Australian and international Australian studies communities, and to lobby Federal and State governments to support the development of Australian studies internationally.

InASA produces the Journal of Australian Studies (University of Queensland Press).

The International Centre for Convict Studies (ICCS) is a trans-national and multi-disciplinary consortium of scholars engaged in research on penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940. It includes researchers from Australia, United States, South Africa and Europe working in the disciplines of history, textual studies, archaeology, economics and sociology.

The International Centre for Convict Studies (ICCS) is a trans-national and multi-disciplinary consortium of scholars engaged in research on penal transportation and convict experience within the British Empire from 1600-1940. It includes researchers from Australia, United States, South Africa and Europe working in the disciplines of history, textual studies, archaeology, economics and sociology.

Contains over 1000 full text classic childrens' books. Books may be searched by age group, theme and language and includes many Australian classics.

A database of the US Census Bureau containing statistical tables of demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award involves nominations from libraries worldwide. This site contains information about winning entries and nominees from the first award in 1996 to the present.

IIMP provides indexing and abstracts for articles from the most important music periodicals. IIMP Full Text includes the full text of articles across a range of musical subjects from both scholarly and popular music journals.

IIPA Full Text contains articles from periodicals covering a range of performing arts subjects including dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, pantomime, puppetry, magic and television. It offers full text coverage of 38 key journals.

This site provides information about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and includes a list of members and access to some full text reports such as the IMF Staff Country Reports. The site also includes a search engine for IMF publications.

A world-wide list of newspapers that have archives of past editions available online. Arranged by country. Some newspapers may require registration to view back issues. Produced by the Special Libraries Association USA.

Official website of the IPC the global governing body of the Paralympic movement. Includes information on Paralympic Summer and Winter Sports, Disability Groupings and Categories, and links to upcoming Paralympic Games in Being 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2010.

Includes information on Beijing 2008 qualifying events in each discipline: swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming. Athlete profiles, world records and anti-doping cases also included.

International travel and health is produced by the World Health Organization and offers advice on health risks at specific destinations. This information is intended to help the medical profession to provide advice on recommended vaccinations, protection against insects and other diseases as well as safety in different environments.

This ancient history resource includes original texts as well as supporting material, all organised by area of study.

A growing library of freely accessible electronic books, documents and texts.

This site provides a list of Internet country codes.

This digital library of eighteenth and nineteenth century journals is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. Substantial runs of eighteenth and nineteenth century journals have been scanned and made available on the Internet. Journals include the Annual register, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Gentleman's magazine, Notes and queries and Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society. The site also provides information on the scope of the journals.

This site provides a searchable database by title, actors, directors and more.

Full text film and TV scripts arranged alphabetically and by genre.

Archive of documents about religion, spirituality, the occult, legends and folklore. Also includes links to texts that relate to humanity as a whole such as documents about evolution and the relationship between religion and science.

This sourcebook attempts to present the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas.

Interpol is an international police organisation, based in France. It makes available a variety of its documents on terrorism, crimes against children etc.

PSIgate aims to provide access to high quality Internet-based resources in the physical sciences: astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, science history and policy, and aspects of the material sciences.

This site provides information about Australian patents. It also provides access to two databases for patents and patent applications filed since January 1979.

This site has a searchable database which covers the baronies, townlands, parishes and counties of Ireland. You can combine various criteria to narrow your search.

Compiled by Ian Cantwell, this 2005 CDROM brings together some of the few remaining primary sources about the people involved in 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. It contains two lists of rebels who surrendered, in Dublin City (1,057) and Coolock Barony (1,218), and two lists of individuals (totalling 6,165) who made claims for compensation for loss of property during the rising.

In relation to the Commission for the compensation of 'suffering loyalists' their brief was limited to individuals who suffered losses of property caused by rebel activity between 1st May 1798 and 6th April 1799. The only way that a death in the family by violence could be compensated was through the payment of a fine when a life in a lease of three lives was renewed but not for any other financial issues relating to the death such as loss of income. Claimants for compensation for property loss came from the following counties:

Antrim 143; Carlow 288; Cavan 1; Clare 7; Cork 21; Down 136; Dublin 173; England 11; Galway 63; Kerry 3; Kildare 363; Kilkenny 251; Kings (Offaly) 29; Leitrim 70; Limerick 2; Londonderry 3; Longford 79; Mayo 686; Meath 145; Monaghan 1; Queens (Laois) 42; Roscommon 15; Sligo 215; Tipperary 20; Tyrone 1; Waterford 5; Westmeath 45; Wexford 2,208; and Wicklow 1,033.

It has been estimated that up to 30,000 people were killed during the uprising, with many more wounded. There are over 8,000 names included on this CDROM.These groups come from every social background, from poor Dublin city labourers and artisans to the aristocratic ascendancy of late eighteenth century Ireland.

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798 in Irish) was an aborted revolution against the British dominated Kingdom of Ireland. Even though it only lasted a few months, it was a major event in Irish history. The United Irishmen, a republican revolutionary group inspired by the ideas of the American and French Revolutions, was the main organizing force behind the rebellion. Further details at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter : The 1798 Rebellion.

The CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Index to 80,000 signatories (with addresses and occupations) to a petition in Ireland in 1848, collected to gain clemency for the rebel leader, William Smith O'Brien, who was sentenced to death following the failure of the 1848 rising. As a consequence of this petition, O'Brien's sentence was commuted and he was transported to Australia for life.

Petitions were signed in 31 out of the 32 Irish counties,the exception being County Offaly or King's County. Almost 50% of the 70,000 signatories in Ireland came from County Dublin. About 10,000 signatures were gathered in England, mainly Liverpool, Manchester and Bradford. The majority of signatories were farmers or urban artisans. Scanned images of all 166 petitions are included.

This CD-ROM was launched in Dublin in March 2001 by the Australian Ambassador to Ireland. It will also be of special interest to the Australian community, given that O'Brien had a important influence on the movement for Federation. The author, Ruth Lawler, is also an Australian living in Ireland, and the CD contains a preface by the Australian Ambassador to Ireland.

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at The Origins Network : William Smith O'Brien Petition 1848-9 .

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Launched by Dublin's Lord Mayor at the Irish Genealogical Congress in Dublin in 2001, this CDROM contains over 60,000 names and addresses (and some occupations) in the city of Dublin in 1851.

The firebombing of the National Archives of Ireland in 1922 by the IRA destroyed many historical documents, including census records. However, prior to this, Dr. D.A. Chart of the Public Record Office had compiled a comprehensive list of the names and addresses of heads of households for Dublin City as found in the 1851 census.Dr. Chart’s extracted list has been edited and converted to this database by Seán Magee.

The CDROM has 3 search modes, as follows:

(1) Standard Search - This is the most specific way of finding what you are looking for. You may combine your search across the Surname, forename, street, street number, parish & northside/southside fields, or combine searches within each search field.

(2) Soundex Searching - Most surnames (or family names) can be spelled in a variety of ways. For example, 'Smith' can also be spelled 'Smyth,' 'Smithe,' and 'Smythe.' Soundex is a method of giving names sound codes. The 1851 Dublin City Census CD-ROM allows you to enter a surname into the search dialogue. This surname is converted (on the fly) to its appropriate sounded code and the records searched. As a result, you can often find names that sound alike, even though they may have different spellings. Note that this search is run against surnames only.

(3) Expert Search – A search utility that uses Boolean logic. The Expert Search supports And, Or, Not, Exclusive Or, Phrase, Multiple character wildcard, Ordered proximity, Unordered proximity, Stemming (word form) and Synonym.

There are also all 33 Ordnance Survey Town Plans of Dublin City from 1847 on this CDROM, courtesy of Dublin Corporation. The maps included are the first detailed town plans of Dublin City to be produced by the Ordnance Survey and are still used today by cartographers,city planners and developers. These 33 maps contain detail of all the streets and houses within the city at this time, a great addition to help users identify specific addresses. The maps are viewed with a separate program, which you launch separately.

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at The Origins Network : Dublin City Census 1851 - Heads of Household Index.

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Search the free census records for Ireland on the National Archives of Ireland's website.

The following list is by county, and then in alphabetical order by graveyard or church :

CLARE - Ardacra; Ballyvaughan; Clooney South; Coad; Corofin; Kilcorcoran; Kildeema; Kilfarboy; Kilfenora; Killaspuglonane; Killenagh; Killernan; Killinaboy; Kilmacrehy; Kilmurry-Ibrickane; Kilshanny Old; Kiltenanlea; Kilvoydan; Lisdoonvarna; Miltown Malbay; Noughaval; Rath; Tooclaith

CORK - Abbeystrewery, CoI; Aughadown,; Aughadown, CoI St. Mathew's; Caheragh, CoI St. Mary's; Caheragh, RC; Kilcoe; Kilcoe, CoI

DUBLIN - Adelaide Road, Presbyterian; Ballinteer, RC St. John the Evangalist; Ballybrack, RC SS. Alphonsus and Columba; Beechwood Avenue, RC Ch. of Holy Name; Blackrock, RC St. John the Baptist; Blackrock (Newtown Park Avenue), RC Ch. of Guardian Angels; Booterstown, RC Ch. of the Assumption; Cabinteely, RC St. Brigid's; Camden Row Old,; Churchtown, RC Ch. of Good Shepherd; City Quay, RC Ch. of Immaculate Heart of Mary; Clogher Road, RC St. Bernadette's Clonskeagh, RC Ch. of Immaculate Virgin; Clyde Road, CoI St. Bartholomew's; Crinken, CoI St. James'; Crumlin, RC St. Agnes; Dalkey, CoI St. Patrick's; Dalkey, RC Ch. of the Assumption of the B.V.M.; Dawson Street, CoI St. Anne's; Dolphin's Barn, RC Ch. of of Our Lady of Dolours; Donnybrook, RC Ch. of the Sacred Heart; Dun Laoghaire, CoI Christ Church; Dun Laoghaire, CoI Mariner's; Dun Laoghaire, Methodist; Dun Laoghaire, Presbyterian; Dun Laoghaire, RC St. Michael's; Dundrum, RC Ch. of the Holy Rosary; Foxrock, RC Ch. of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour; Francis Street, RC St. Nicholas of Myra; Glasthule, RC St. Joseph's; Glenageary, CoI St. Paul's; Glencullen, RC St. Patrick's; Haddington Road, RC St. Mary's; Harolds Cross, RC Ch. of Our Lady of the Rosary; Harrington Street, RC St. Kevins; High Street, RC St. Audoen's; Inchicore, RC Ch. of Mary Immaculate (O.M.I.); Inchicore, RC St. Michael's; John's Lane, RC St. John's Priory (Augustinians); Johnstown, RC Ch. of Our Lady of Good Councel; Kill O' the Grange, RC Ch. of the Holy Family; Killiney, CoI Holy Trinity; Killiney, CoI St. Matthias's; Kilmacud, RC St. Laurence O'Toole; Kilternan, CoI; Kilternan, RC Ch. of Our Lady of the Wayside; Kilternan Old; Loughlinstown, RC St. Columbanus; Loughlinstown Workhouse Paupers'; Meath Street, RC St. Catherine's; Merchant's Quay, RC Ch. of Adam & Eve (Fransiscan); Merrion Road, RC Ch. of Our Lady Queen of Peace; Milltown, RC Ch. of Assumption of the B.V.M.; Monkstown, CoI St. Patrick's; Monkstown, RC St. Patrick's; Mount Argus, RC St. Paul of the Cross (Passionist); Mounttown, CoI converted to Tridentine; Old Connaught Old, Peter Street, Huguenot; Ratfarnham, Ch. of the Announciation; Rathgar, RC Three Patrons; Rathmichael, CoI; Rathmines, RC Ch. of Immaculate Lady of Refuge; Ringsend, RC St. Patrick's; Sallynoggin, RC Ch. of Our Lady of Victories; Sandyford, RC St. Mary's; Sandymount, RC Ch. of Our Lady Star of the Sea; Shankill, RC St. Anne's; South Circular Road, CoI St. Kevin's; St. Stephen's Green University Church, RC Church of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom; Stillorgan, CoI St. Brigid's; Suffolk Street, CoI St. Andrew's; Terenure, RC St. Joseph's; Trinity College,; Tully Old,; Wyattville, RC Ch. of the Apostles

GALWAY - Kilmacduagh (Gort), CoI

KILDARE – Castledermot; Crosschapel; Killeen Cormac; Naas; Timolin

SLIGO - Sligo, CoI St. John's

WEXFORD - Adamstown, CoI; Adamstown, St. Abban's RC; Ambrosetown; Ardamine, Ch. of St. John the Apostle CoI; Ardcandrisk; Ardcavan Oll; Ardcolm, CoI; Ardcolm (Castlebridge), CoI; Ardcolm Old; Artramont Old; Askamore, RC; Askinvillar Old; Baldwinstown Wayside Cross; Ballaghkeen, Ch. of St. John the Baptist RC; Ballinclay, Quaker; Ballindaggan, RC; Ballindaggan RC; Ballingly Old; Balloughter, RC; Balloughton, CoI; Ballyane, RC; Ballybrazil; Ballybrennan (Bree), RC; Ballybrennan Old; Ballycanew, RC; Ballycanew, St. Mogue's Ch. CoI; Ballycarney, CoI; Ballyconnick Old; Ballycullane, St. Martin's RC; Ballyduff, RC; Ballyfad, RC; Ballygarrett, St. Mary's Ch. RC; Ballyhack; Ballyhogue, RC; Ballyhuskard, CoI; Ballyhuskard Old; Ballykelly, St. Mary's RC; Ballykerogue; Ballylannen; Ballymitty; Ballymore, CoI; Ballymore, RC; Ballymore Old; ETC

This 2006 CDROM by Trinity College is a fascimile of Henry Farrar's two volume index published in 1897 which indexes over 12,000 marriage entries in 'Walker's Hibernian Magazine from the journal's beginning in 1771 until it ceased in 1812. It also includes an appendix by Sir Arthur Vicars of some 1,350 births, deaths and marriages recorded in the short-lived magazine 'Anthologia Hibernica 1793-94'. In total, it is estimated that the 2 volumes contain over 22,000 names across 547 pages.

These records are from a time when few other records of this nature survive. As a consequence it is of exceptional genealogical value, recording the names, addresses and some occupations of the couples, and often the names and details of their parents (principally the fathers of the brides). The dates and places of marriage are also recorded and additional detail for selected marriages.

The monthly 'The Hibernian Magazine: or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge' was the main general Dublin journal for this period and covered many topics, from news and current affairs to fashion and the arts. As a consequence it was the main publication for the announcement of marriages.

Mitchell Library only has Part 1 of 'Walker's Hibernian Magazine or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge' located at 050/W.

This CD-ROM provides access to records on microfiche on over a million individuals who occupied property in Ireland between 1848 and 1864. The records list every property holder in a county together with details of houses, outbuildings, fields and gardens. Some records contain additional information about an individual's occupation, religion, or relative's names.

This site provides a searchable database of transportation records of convicts sent from Ireland between 1791 and 1868. Note that all transportation registers prior to 1836 were destroyed. Therefore if the convict was not the subject of a petition prior to this date, they will not appear. The names of the convict family members that came to Australia as free settlers may also be listed. This is an index only. Microfilm copies of the original records are held in the Family History Service at the State Library of NSW. These records were received in 1988 as a gift from Ireland to commemorate the bicentenary of white settlement in Australia.

Family history research guide to relevant records held in the National Library of Ireland (Dublin).

Published by John Hunter in 2006,the CD has over 1000 pages including 60 documents, 93 maps,a townland index, research notes as well as civil and Catholic parish maps.

A detailed contents list follows:

(1) a townland index with 23 entries for each of the 1,650 townlands.

(2) Barony,Poor Law Union and Registrars' District maps.

(3) Notes on Ordnance Survey maps.

(4) Map showing the location of 18 Civil parishes.

(5) Maps showing the townland locations in each Civil parish.

(6) Maps showing the location of the 24 Catholic parishes.

(7) Maps showing townland locations in each Catholic parish.

(8) A Civil parish database.

(9) A Catholic parish database.

(10)LDS Family History microfilm numbers.

(11) Notes on townland suffixes,Tithe Applotment Books and 1901 Census.

(12) Distribution of surnames in Civil parishes at the 1901 Census.

(13) Notes on change of land occupiers (Continuing valuations) 1854-1920.

(14) Brief explanation of terms used in Irish research.

(15) research tips.

Compiler,John Hunter, is located at 10/72, Lorimer Terrace,(or PO Box 2068), Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059.

Fax: 61 7 3856 0882

Email: john@roscommon.info

Published by John Hunter in 2004,the CD has over 1110 pages including 95 documents and 105 maps.

Detailed content list follows:

(1) a townland index with 23 entries for each of the 2205 townlands

(2) the complete Griffith's valuation of County Roscommon (1852-1858) with 20 entries for each of the 37,000 occupiers. 17 data sorts include surnames by 'soundex'.

(3) Griffith's valuation database expanded to include Barony, Poor law Union, Registrars District, Electoral Division, Year of Valuation and likely Catholic parish.

(4) Location of churches, schools, graveyards, police barracks etc at Griffith's valuation.

(5) Barony,Poor Law Union and Registrars' District maps.

(6) Notes on Ordnance Survey maps.

(7) Map showing the location of Civil parishes.

(8) Maps showing the location of townlands in all 62 Civil parishes.

(9) Maps showing the location of Catholic parishes.

(10) Maps showing the location of townlands in all 34 Catholic parishes.

(11) A Civil parish database.

(12) A Catholic parish database.

(13) LDS Family History Library microfilm numbers.

(14) Notes on townland suffixes, Tithe Applotment Books and 1901 Census.

(15) Distribution of surnames in Civil parishes at the 1901 Census.

(16) Notes on change of land Occupiers (Continuing Valuations) 1854-1920.

(17) Brief explanation of terms used in Irish research.

(18) Estate maps and rent records for part of Lord Crofton's estate.

(19) research tips.

Compiler,John Hunter, is located at 10/72, Lorimer Terrace,(or PO Box 2068), Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059.

Fax: 61 7 3856 0882

Email: john@roscommon.info

Published by John Hunter in 2006,the CD contains the following:

(1) Distribution of surnames 1749 to 1901 (378 pages) - sorted by Civil parish, Barony and Soundex Code.

(2) Index to the 1749 Census of Elphin Diocese (189 pages) - sorted by Civil parish, Barony and Soundex Code.

(3) Roscommon Historical & Archaeological Society Journal Index to Volumes 1-10 (1986-2006).

(4) Roscommon Freeholders 1768 to 1799.

(5) Names and location of Catholic churches.

(6) Graveyard records and monumental inscriptions

Compiler,John Hunter, is located at 10/72, Lorimer Terrace,(or PO Box 2068), Kelvin Grove, Qld, 4059.

Fax: 61 7 3856 0882

Email: john@roscommon.info

Compiled by Stephen McCormac and published by Eneclann in 2004, the records compiled in this CDROM provide important evidence of the people involved in the infamous Tithe War of 1831-38.

All 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. However, in 1831 many people refused to pay this tithe and so started the Tithe War, which was fiercest in the southeast.

The names that appear on this CDROM are of those people, recorded by the Church of Ireland clergy, who refused to pay their tithe.The CDROM contains all personal details from the original files, as well as information about the parishes that the people resided in.

This publication contains: 30,000 names with addresses and occupations; complete records for 232 parishes; and Full text of the Affidavits.

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at The Origins Network : 1831 Tithe Defaulters .

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

This 2005 CDROM provides fully searchable scanned images of over 5,000 pages of the official Journal of the Irish Genealogical Research Society from the first issue published in April 1937 up to Volume 8 in 1993. This journal,The Irish Genealogist, was bi-annual (April & October), from 1937 to 1942, and then annual from 1943 to-date.

The Irish Genealogist, through many of its articles, allowed researchers to gain access to material held in private collections or otherwise inaccessible or lost, particularly following the fire in the Public Records Office in 1922.

The journal covers such diverse topics as family registers, abstracts of Diocesan Wills, monumental inscriptions, many important family genealogies, guides for those wishing to do their own genealogical research, as well as Ken Nicholls standard setting work on the Kavanaghs (1400-1700).

An online journal contents list by year and volume, for the period April 1937 to 2001, is available at Index to The Irish Genealogist .

The State Reference Library holds The Irish Genealogist from Vol. 11. no. 4, 2005, in stack at N929.3415/16.

Irish census, directory and Griffiths listings arranged by County.

The General Register Office Ireland is the central civil repository for records relating to births, deaths and marriages in the Republic of Ireland. Records of births, deaths and Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st January 1864. Records of marriages other than Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st April 1845.

This CD is a reproduction of the journal 'The Irish Ancestor', published from 1969 to 1986 on a non-profit basis with the aim of providing original source material, etc. on Irish genealogy, biography and domestic Irish history.

The Irish Ancestor was usually published twice yearly,in spring and autumn, plus in several of the earlier years a supplemental volume was produced.

For example, in 1969 a third volume, An Index to Raphoe Marriage Licence Bonds, 1710-1755 and 1817-1830, was also published.

In total, there are 33 issues over 18 years, 4 supplements, over 2.500 pages and some 320 pages with illustrations.

Articles contributed to the main volumes varied from Christian names in Ireland by Brian de Breffny (1969 Vol 1 No 1) to Some Irish weddings in Nova Scotia 1834-1840 by Terrence M. Punch (1976 Vol 8 No 2) to Tombstones in Killbride Graveyard, Callan Parish, Co. Kilkenny,edited by Joseph Kennedy (1986 Vol 18 No 1).

The Publisher is Eneclann Ltd, a Trinity College Campus Company in Dublin (See Eneclann).

The Irish Ancestor website has a number of searchable databases, which cover place names and surnames, including extended histories of the name. It also provides information on subjects such as published family histories and heraldry in Ireland.

Irish Ancestor is part of the Irish Times news and information website ireland.com which provides a range of internet-based products aimed at those interested in Ireland and all things Irish.

A subscription is required to access full records. You can also commission offline research on most of the sources detailed on this site. All research is carried out by the website's research partners Eneclann. Eneclann is a Trinity College Dublin campus company which undertakes House Histories and Genealogical Research. (see Eneclann Historical Research ).

The Irish Ancestor website offers a Surname Search which can provide: the number and location of households of the name in Ireland 1848-64; variant spellings or associated names; surname dictionary entries; surname histories; the number and location of births of the name in 1890; published or printed family histories; and a possible coat of arms associated with the name.

The 1890 Births Distribution is based on Matheson's Special Report on Surnames in Ireland (1909), which records the principal locations of birth registrations for surnames in 1890. Only surnames with more than five registrations are included.

The counts of the number of households of a particular surname recorded in the counties and civil parishes of Ireland are based on the returns of Griffith's Valuation published between 1848 and 1864.

Irish Ancestor is part of the Irish Times news and information website ireland.com which provides a range of internet-based products aimed at those interested in Ireland and all things Irish.

A subscription is required to access full records. You can also commission offline research on most of the sources detailed on this site. All research is carried out by the website's research partners Eneclann. Eneclann is a Trinity College Dublin campus company which undertakes House Histories and Genealogical Research (see http://www.eneclann.ie/Index/about_us.html )

A pilot project to make the Irish Civil Registration (BDM) Indexes available on the FamilySearch website has been launched .

Irish births and deaths start in 1864 and marriages in 1845, with all indexes going through to 1958.

Note this is a Pilot project and the index may be unavailable from time to time as the site is developed further.

This site allows you to search an online database which contains information on Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1791-1830's. Includes a list of ships carrying Irish convicts and links to other Irish convict and revel sites. Site maintained by Peter Mayberry.

This site allows you to search an online database which contains information on Irish convicts who were transported to New South Wales in the period 1791-1830's. Includes a list of ships carrying Irish convicts and links to other Irish convict and revel sites. Site maintained by Peter Mayberry.

This site contains the largest collection of Parish records for the island of Ireland that are searchable online.

List of databases that are searchable:

Birth Records for Ireland 7,675,533

Marriage Records for Ireland 3,895,638

Death Records for Ireland 1,372,081

Census Records for Ireland 2,304,434

Griffith's Valuation for Ireland

Free and subscription databases, advice and resource documents are available to users on this site. Databases include Griffiths Valuations, flax growers, directories of many major towns, newspaper indexes and landowners.

Produced in 1999 this CDROM is a reproduction of a Flax Growers List compiled in 1796 in Ireland that contains names of about 60,000 individuals who received a grant for growing flax. The names are arranged by civil parish in each county (except Dublin and Wicklow, which were not included).The barony was listed instead of the parish in a few of the records.

During the 18th century, Ireland, and Ulster in particular, established a reputation as a producer of fine linen (made from flax). At various times the government introduced special incentives to encourage the production of linen, usually giving away spinning wheels and looms.

In 1796 the Irish Linen Board published a list of almost 60,000 individuals who had received awards for planting a specified acreage of flax. Those who had planted one acre were awarded four spinning wheels, and those planting five acres were awarded a loom.

The Flax Growers List, known officially as the Spinning Wheel Premium Entitlement List, or more commonly the Flax Growers Bounty List,is an important source of information on people living in Ireland in the 18th century, particularly as most of the Irish census returns for 1871, 1881 and 1891 were pulped for the 1914-18 war effort while the Irish Civil War of 1922 destroyed even older records in a huge fire resulting from the conflict.

Counties listed, followed by the number of individuals referenced, as follows:

Antrim (1,117);Galway (641); Meath (1,390); Armagh (3,026); Kerry (888); Monaghan (4,258); Carlow (9); Kildare (6); Offaly (290); Cavan (2,180); Kilkenny (6); Roscommon (2,712); Clare (178); Laois (4); Sligo (1,007); Cork (1,071); Leitrim (1,756); Tipperary (26); Derry (4,784); Limerick (171); Tyrone (6,616); Donegal (6,852); Longford (2,365); Waterford (1); Down (2,942); Louth (3,041); Westmeath (1,216); Dublin (7); Mayo (1,848); Wexford (8); Fermanagh (2,190).

This database is now freely available on the internet at Irish Flax Growers 1796.

Full text scanned newspapers from Ireland. Ibcludes newspapers such as the Independent and the Freeman's Journal. Provides feree index and thumbnail images but full text is by subscription.

An Ancestry.com product dated 2002-2002,this CD contains 236,386 records, primarily from cemetery tombstone transcriptions and similar sources, from the Irish counties of Antrim, Down and Louth from 1538 to 1837 (pre-civil registration).

This CD-ROM extracts key information from the Irish Tithe Applotment Books of 1823 to 1838, a unique land survey taken to determine the amount of tax payable by landholders occupying upwards of 5 acres of land to the Church of Ireland, the established church of Ireland until 1869. They are known as the Tithe Applotment Books because the results of this land survey were originally compiled in nearly 2,000 hand-written books.

This data set represents a virtual census for pre-famine Northern Ireland, covering the 6 counties that make up present-day Northern Ireland: Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone.

These Irish Tithe Applotment Books are also available on the Ancestry Library database which the State Library of NSW subscibes to.

An index to the Irish Convict Records held on microfilm. The microfilm records reproduce the holdings of the Irish National Archives in Dublin on the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia from 1788 to 1868.

These records were a Bicentennial gift from the Irish Government to Australia.

The National Archives of Ireland's website also provides free online access to this index at Ireland-Australia transportation database.

This database indexes the Testamentary Records in the National Archives of Ireland and is only concerned with those records which survive in more than index form, such as original documents, copies, transcripts, abstracts and extracts. It covers the years up to 1858 only, when the whole testamentary system was transferred from Church control to the State.

It covers all 32 counties for this poorly documented period and contains over 70,000 individual records with over 100,000 names, over 10,000 surnames and variants and over 1,000 different occupations. There is also a composite map of counties and dioceses on the CD which will help users to locate place names throughout Ireland.

Each index entry contains the name of the person leaving a will, or being covered by a grant of probate or administration. It also contains their address, sometimes their occupation, and the place where the document was proved (i.e. a diocesan or the Prerogative court). The index also contains the names of the executors for almost half the entries, along with their addresses. In essence this index contains all the information contained in the National Archives finding aids (i.e. card catalogues, typed lists, and original summaries).

Further information, including search strategies, can be found at Searching the Irish Wills Index.

This CDROM is one of series of 6 entitled Irish Records Index produced by Eneclann, an Irish-based company dedicated to releasing Irish records on CD-ROM. Volume 1 is 'Index of Irish wills, 1484-1858'. Volume 2 is 'The 1848 petitions: the William Smith O'Brien Petition'. Volume 3 is 'The 1851 Dublin City Census'.Volume 4 is 'the 1831 Tithe Defaulters'. Volume 5 is 'Returning Home: Transatlantic Migration from North America to Britain & Ireland 1858 - 1870'. Volume 6 is 'The 1798 Rebellion: Claimants and Surrenders'. All but volume 5 are available at the FH Service.

Award-winning guide to Islamic practices and beliefs. Includes course material from Islamic websites and scholarly research materials as well as statistical information and articles about related issues.

Provides information for Muslims in Australia, including prayer time calculators, directories of mosques, schools, halal businesses, links to charitable organisations and other Islamic sites.

This site provides general information on the Australian honours system, details about awards including the Order of Australia, nomination forms and a searchable database covering awards from 1901 to the present