The Irish Genealogist Finding Aids
The Society’s annual journal, The Irish Genealogist (TIG), has been published since 1937. It is widely recognised as a forerunner in the field of Irish genealogy and for making a unique scholarly contribution to Irish genealogical studies for over 80 years.
Over the period the journal has been published it has allowed members to share the results of their work through many thousands of genealogy-related articles, family histories and transcriptions of unusual records and sources. Typically, members have submitted information from newspapers, parish registers, family bibles, genealogies, voters lists, pedigrees, membership rolls, deeds, marriage settlements, census substitutes, land and tenure surveys, marriage licence bonds, courts records, wills and much more besides. In the early years the TIG was published twice a year and has been published once a year since 1951.
In the period it has been published there have been many technological developments. While recent editions are produced electronically we had to scan earlier edition to create a readily accessible electronic resource. In the TIG there are more than a quarter of a million names mentioned.
The Irish Genealogist finding aids
Over the years we have developed a number of finding aids.
The first one was an index of names for volumes 1 through 12. It is a combination the efforts of volunteer members supplemented by some contracted indexing done in India. The first part of the index was compiled by Peter Manning. The contract index has some problems. The database is meant to comprise all personal names noted in editions published in Volumes 1-12, which cover the years 1937 to 2009. All indexes have problems such as omissions and errors. Nevertheless it is a very useful resource and can be searched by surname, with and without a first name.
Finding articles
If you have a reference to an article or author published in the TIG we have developed an other database of articles and authors. This may be searched in a number of ways and returns a link to our shop where you can purchase individual articles. Anyone purchasing an article will be able to download instantly after purchase. Some articles have a zero cost.
A richer index including names, places and more
More recently our webmaster (Nick Reddan) and a volunteer (Daniel O'Leary) have compiled a new index for the TIG from 2008. In addition to names this index includes places, institutions, events and more. The coverage at the moment is 2008 through 2015 plus a few entries from 2021.
