WHAT'S WHAT in IRISH GENEALOGY
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Record Repositories: OVERSEAS
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The following are record repositories located outside Ireland with significant
holdings of material of use in Irish ancestral research
Australia
Canada
England
U.S.A.
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY
SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGISTS
Richmond Villa, 120 Kent Street,
& Rumsey Hall, 24 Kent Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000, Australia
[major collection of Irish genealogical sources]
CANADA
St. JOHN'S
MARITIME HISTORY ARCHIVE
Henrietta Harvey Building, Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada
[microfilm copies of a number of RC and C of I parish registers,
with vestry books for two parishes in Co. Tipperary]
ENGLAND
LONDON
BRITISH LIBRARY NEWSPAPER LIBRARY
Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, England
[largest collection of Irish newspapers in the world]
IRISH GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Irish Club, 82 Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9AJ, England
[significant collection of Irish genealogical sources; open only on Saturday mornings]
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU, England
[repository of unique material relating to Irish in British military & naval services,
coastguards and Royal Irish Constabulary; some convict transportation records and late 19th/
earlt 20th century passenger lists]
SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS
14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA, England
[significant collection of Irish genealogical sources]
MANCHESTER
MANCHESTER & LANCS FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Clayton House, 59 Piccadilly, Manchester, M1 2AQ, England
[collection of Irish genealogical sources]
U.S.A.
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
SAMFORD UNIVERSITY
Davis Library, Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, Alabama, 35229, U.S.A.
[houses the Albert Casey collection; material mainly for Cork & Kerry]
BOSTON
BOSTON COLLEGE
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 02467, U.S.A.
[major collection of Irish genealogical sources]
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, U.S.A.
[significant collection of Irish genealogical sources]
CLEVELAND, OHIO
WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, U.S.A.
[collection of Irish genealogical sources, including a new Irish American Archives]
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
BURTON COLLECTION OF DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY
5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 48202, U.S.A.
[collection of Irish genealogical sources, including the Richard Elliott Papers]
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
IRISH EMIGRATION LIBRARY
Irish Cultural and Heritage Center, 2133 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53233, U.S.A.
[collection of Irish genealogical sources, mainly on CD & microform]
NEW YORK
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, New York, New York, 10018-2788, U.S.A.
[collection of Irish genealogical sources; Emigrant Savings Bank Records
(in the Manuscripts & Archives Division)]
St. PAUL
IRISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INTERNATIONAL
5768 Olson Memorial Highway, Golden Valley, Minnesota, 55422, U.S.A.
[major collection of Irish genealogical sources]
SALT LAKE CITY
FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY
35 North West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84150, U.S.A.
[largest collection of Irish genealogical sources outside Ireland]
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