Mayo Orphan Girls - An Earl Grey genealogy project
When: Saturday, 21 May, 2022Earl Grey Assisted Emigration Scheme
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Earl Grey Assisted Emigration Scheme
MayoThere are more than 10,000 ancestors now on the XO Chronicles. (Thank you IrelandXO community!) Undoubtedly, those that stand out, and really bring to life the stories of the people featured, are those that have a photograph.
Ireland XOPicture above: An 1868 engraving by Henry Doyle, entitled 'Emigrants Leaving Ireland'.
Ireland XOIreland – the first country in the world to be mapped in detail
Ireland XOLocal family historian Bob Quilty has managed to reunite an entire clan 152 years after the emigration of his two granduncles to upstate New York in the later part of the 19th century.
Ballybricken (Limerick)The Schools' Collection compiled in the 1930s provides a great local history resource for anyone i
Ireland XODid you know Daniel O’Connell – the Great Liberator inadvertently created some Irish genealogy gold?
Ireland XORachel’s Grandad, David Connelly was born in Drumcroon (Mascosquin civil parish) Co. Derry in November 1872. But Rachel could find no record of him (nor his mother) for the period between his birth and marriage.
DerryA new school system begins
Ireland XOIt’s no secret that Irish signage can be the undoing of even the most seasoned traveller. Even Irish natives know how easy it is to get a place-name pronunciation wrong when they are not local to the area.
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