Genealogical Treasures in Irish Archives

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1. CP

   Cynthia Peugnet

   3 years ago

   Thanks for such a thorough seminar and syllabus!

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Very informative and an excellent, extremely knowledgeable presenter. \n\nVery informative and interesting. \n\nVery informative and lots of information in an hour's time.\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative!\n\nvery informative, lots of great ideas for where to look for records. Thank you!\n\nVery informative.\n\nvery informative. \n\nVery informative. Gave lots of ideas about sources available.\n\nVery informative. I've done a lot of research, but still learned about several resources pertinent to my family history. Thank you!\n\nVery interesting\n\nVery interesting\n\nVery interesting\n\nVery knowledgeable presenter - clear and very well organized. Also, Geoff always does a great job as MC and moderator.\n\nVery knowledgeable, and a great review.\n\nvery nice overview and yes I'd love to see webinar 2 and webinar 3 on this subject....\n\nVery thorough .... can't wait to dig into my Ulster roots!\n\nVery thorough!\n\nVery thorough. I have so many more places to look.\n\nVery understandable, liked having the syllabus so I could follow along and make my notes. Still searching for the townlands of my ancestors, one in Cork, and one in Mayo. The Cork ones came before 1830. I hope to find through more research exactly where they were located....must think positive! Thank you!\n\nvery useful information, will rewatch it tomorrow and refine my notes.\n\nVery well done, and very informative. \n\nVery well done, lots of information presented at a good pace. Thanks for the syllabus. \n\nVery well done.\n\nVery well presented and Syllabus is very informative \n\nvery well presented though he could of spent an entire session on a single topic - this was a great overview for me. much enjoyed, would listen to his talks anytime. thank you\n\nVery well spoken, easily understood, and so very much to research with so many helpful places to find your relatives. Thank you so much.\n\nvery, very interesting. Gave me hope that I may find my Irish ancestors!\n\nWell done Thank You!!!\n\nWell organized, chock full off lesser-known sources. Excellent!\n\nWell organized, useful information. \n\nwell prepared\n\nWhat a way to kick-off my beginning research in Ireland! Wonderful resources. Great syllabus! Thank you for sponsoring this webinar!\n\nWhere is the 10 button ;) \n\nWish I'd had that help 15 years ago\n\nWonderful Information\n\nwonderful information. David Ouimette has a vast wealth of Irish knowledge. I could have listened to him for several more hours. I have a feeling there is a lot more he could have talked about. There should be a Part 2. I just joined the Legacy Webinars (yesterday) for just this kind of program. Excellent.\n\nWonderful overview of Irish records. Thanks.\n\nWonderful presentation! Terrific handout! So inspiring. Many thanks!!\n\nWonderful to have so much detailed information in the syllabus.\n\nWonderful wealth of information presented and thorough handout provided so I can come up with a plan to research my Irish roots. Thank you!\n\nWonderful webinar on Irish Archives.\n\nWonderful! So very helpful - Thank you.\n\nWonderful. I will be watching it again next week. Sooo good!\n\nWow! So much information. I've still got lots of research to do here before jumping over to Ireland.\n\nWow! Very informative. Loved the syllabus.\n\nWow! What a lot of information.\n\nWow!! So much to learn; so many places to find records; didn't know that maps were so critical. I have to watch this again, and again! Loved this one!\n\nwow, 8 pages of pure gold for helping to do research on our families\n\nWow, I didn't realize there were so many different resources. We have our work cut out for us.\n\nWow, outstanding presentation and a lot of excellent information!!\n\nWow, so much was covered, this was a very worthwhile webinar. I also appreciate the handout listing all the resources mentioned. Thanks so much!\n\nWOW, the detail!! So thorough. And I wish I could afford to go to Ireland and dig into my ancestors' region(s) - but 77 and poor makes that unlikely. Thanks so much for this excellent webinar, and the very helpful handout! Much appreciated.\n\nWow, there are a lot more Irish records available than many thought!

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   This is the best information I have ever seen, read about, or heard about. Thank you. The Atlas is the first on my list.\n\nThis overview of all the available Irish records was very comprehensive. \n\nThis speaker is new to me but I liked him\n\nThis was a fascinating webinar with so much information. I definitely have my work cut out starting with the location of the parish and county my relative came from.\n\nThis was an especially enlightening evening--broadly brushed with just enough information to move forward with insight and perspective. Thanks so much!\n\nThis was by far the best webinar thus far\n\nThis was great - a good review for me. I went to Ireland in 2006 and met my mother's relatives. (Lovett) Visited churches, schools & towns. I researched and made contact before I went. My Irish Great Grandparents came from County Kerry. Higgins, O' Connell, Mahony. Have Valuation Maps, Revision & House Book pages. Petty Court Records, dog owner licenses, church records, books on Researching in Ireland - specifically Kerry. \n\nThis was probably the BEST webinar on Irish data and where to find this information.\n\nThis webinar has given me such a thorough blueprint with which I can now more effectively begin research on my Irish ancestors! Thank you so much!\n\nThis webinar was very informative and very encouraging. I am planning a long visit to Ireland to research my Irish genealogy - and this webinar gave me very valuable information. They syllabus is already downloaded, saved and printed and filed in my trip folder! Good job. \n\nThought we were at a dead end, but this webinar has given us some new records to find! Many thanks.\n\nThrilled and overwhelmed at the same time! I will probably have to go back and rewatch this because I know I missed information that would be helpful. Since my Irish ancestors emigrated prior to 1870, I have had no luck finding them in Ireland. I hope that a few of these new resources will be beneficial. I will be ordering several books in the near future as well! Thank you so very much for this presentation. It was very well done! Wish me luck!\n\ntons of good info, lots of homework now.\n\nTruly a great webinar from a very knowledgeable David Ouimette who covered a lot of ground left us thirsting for more! \n\nVery clear descriptions with examples and well organized presentation.\n\nVery clear explanations of the records that are available on-line and in Ireland.\n\nVery clear, concise and helpful\n\nVery comprehensive\n\nvery comprehensive and clear\n\nVery detailed and great presentation!\n\nVery detailed, very intense, easy to read visuals. I'll have to view it again to absorb everything! And I've been doing Irish research for years! Thank you.\n\nVery enjoyable - now to get to Ireland\n\nvery good\n\nVery good presentation of resources available to the "family scribes."\n\nVery helpful!\n\nVery helpful!\n\nVery helpful! Thank you!\n\nvery impressed with what is out there could listen to him all day\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative \n\nVery informative \n\nVery informative - thank you!

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Oh my! I guess there's hope to find where my ancestor came from after all!\n\nOutstanding - a true expert with a very well designed presentation\n\nOutstanding presentation ans syllabus. Just off the charts. Thank you so much!!!\n\nOutstanding presentation! Thank you for the wonderfully detailed handout.\n\nOutstanding webinar and lots of new resources to use.\n\nOutstanding!\n\nOutstanding!!\n\nOverwhelming! It is truly astounding what is still available for Irish research even after all of the record destruction. I will definitely listen to this again!\n\nPacked with information! Thank you!\n\nPlease have him back\n\nPresenter gave lots of good info on pre-1840s sources which are often hard to find. The printout will be very useful. Thanks.\n\nreally enjoyed it\n\nRecord-finding information presented beautifully and in a different way. I'm newly inspired to find my elusive Kerry and Cork ancestors.\n\nreplay replay!!\n\nSeem to move along a little too quickly to absorb, but there's so much to learn!\n\nSmooth fluid speaker. Great content \n\nSo informative, thank you\n\nso many Irish records that I never heard of - thanks!\n\nSo many new records to explore! I hope he returns with a Part 2- for a more in-depth look. \n\nSo many sources to check - b ut at least the myth of Irish records all destroyed has been put to rest.\n\nSo many sources! But I don't know what county they are from!\n\nSo much info. amazing\n\nSo much information about Ireland and its records!\n\nso much information, so little time!! LOL\n\nSo much information, so many records to search!\n\nSo much material was presented. It would be great if David would provide more detailed instruction in later webinars.\n\nSo much material. I was somewhat overcome. Presenter has a wonderful level of knowledge.\n\nSo much to do, so little time. I see there is a lot of hiding in my family research room for me in the near future! Thank you so very much!\n\nSo much wonderful information\n\nSo well organized, well presented, great syllabus\n\nSome day we'll find that elusive John Davis.\n\nSyllabus was great to have so I could focus on what was being said instead of taking extensive notes.\n\nThank you David for a very comprehensive exploration of the Irish records available to genealogists. Now, we just have to find them!!\n\nThank you David. You opened some doors I never even considered!\n\nThank you for detailing the many places to find Irish records and for referencing published books about them.\n\nThank you for the clear presentation, full of new information for me, and the detailed syllabus, most appreciated.\n\nThank you for the comprehensive syllabus\n\nThank you, David, for including so many resources.\n\nThe best webinar I have ever attended - and I have attended many, many over the past few years.\n\nThe handout is especially helpful.\n\nThe presenter was very professional - organised, provided an overiew, followed thru on his initial overview, spoke clearly and sufficiently slowly to allow analysis of his comment with slide being presented; knew his topic. Evidently had a lot more information to give but did not try to overload listeners - he has encouraged his audience to research for her/himself.\n\nThere was a lot of information for the time allotted. Suggest separating Northern Ireland into a separate webinar.\n\nThere was a lot of information that will be useful to me.\n\nThere was an abundance of information given by the speaker. I am already looking at the different websites and seeing what they are about. Loved this presentation!\n\nThere was so much information given by Mr. Ouimette that I am glad I have a subscription to the webinars. I can watch it many more times. And I will. It was very good.\n\nThis could really be a 2 session webinar. Great info and well-informed presentation. Disappointed that they didn't do the normal drawing.\n\nThis gave me a terrific detailed overview of the sources I need to look at as I move the focus of my research to Ireland. I found this very topical and on point to where my research is leading me. Thank you for an excellent presentation and valuable information.

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5. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Incredible depth of knowledge - please bring him back again to talk about just Northern Ireland and the Scots settlement \n\nIncredibly knowledgeable and inspiring speaker.\n\ninformation overload\n\nInformative!\n\nInteresting webinar thank you.\n\nIt was a lot of information to dissect but so good. Irish research though is still a question for me. I have not had a lot of experience but would love to know how to use Griffiths evaluations, etc in my research, etc\n\nIt was fantastic! Everything that I needed to know.\n\nIt was great to hear all the possible records available\n\nIt was just so complete and organized! I don't know how he covered so much in one hour, but it will take me hours more to just go through the wonderful syllabus! Terrific.\n\nIt was very helpful to learn that there are records that still exist! And to learn ways of starting to look for my Irish relations. It was a wonderful webinar. Thank you!!!\n\nIt was very informative, the speaker obviously knows his stuff!\n\nIt was well done, very interesting and introduced me to new resources as well as reminding me of ones I knew about but had forgotten.\n\nKind of like drinking from a fire hose\n\nKnowledgeable! great ideas, thorough\n\nLinks will be great when I get time to return to Irish research.\n\nLoads of information, but too quick.\n\nLots of good incarnations on the records available. The hard part is work on this side to find out which county and parish they come from. So many US records just list Ireland. Thanks, David, good presentation.\n\nLots of good information to find resources in Ireland for my ancestors\n\nLots of good resources!\n\nLots of great info!\n\nLots of great info!\n\nLots of great information if I can ever figure out from where in Ireland multiple relatives immigrated from. The latest immigrated in 1851, but several appear to have immigrated 1820-1830. (If I were younger, I would consider certification but I am 73 years old - would rather spend my time on my own genealogy)\n\nLots of great sources that I would never have known about.\n\nLots of information\n\nLots of new resources to access and also a reminder of some I had forgotten about.\n\nLots of new sources of documents to be researched!\n\nLots of places to look, but a lot of them are in Ireland. \n\nlots of resources I'd never heard of before! I need to get to work!!\n\nLots of useful information. It makes me more determined to break down my brick wall! Thanks so much for the presentation!\n\nMany great resources and an answer to my question about resources for my Irish Quaker ancestors. Thank you so much!\n\nMany unusual sources mentioned to subsitute for missing census records\n\nMeticulously organized and presented, backed by a detailed syllabus. Please clone this man!\n\nMore Irish please, especially with someone as knowledgeable as David Ouimette. But please remind him about that 1804 Napoleonic Survey. It is for NI but located at the NAI.\n\nMr. Ouimette was superb! I greatly appreciate the syllabus and program that shared his wealth of knowledge. His voice was pleasant and his presentation flowed smoothly. He crammed a lot of info into the time but it was not overwhelming. Seamless moderation from BCG. This is my favorite webinar of the hundreds of ones I've listened to! Thank you very much for making it available.\n\nMy husband and I went to Ireland many years ago, unfortunately not for genealogical research. I have been dreaming of being able to return for a true research visit. This webinar encourages me even more! So well put together and presented. \n\nNever tried poking into my Irish heritage. David Q makes me feel I should try and it seems I could actually find helpful information.\n\nNice

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6. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   He is so knowlegeable - loved hearing all the info!\n\nHelpful and inspiring.\n\nI am a total beginner so I'll be buying some books to focus my search. I wish I had shared this webinar with a distant Irish cousin here in NY that I connected with on Ancestry. Our great grandmothers were sisters, mine immigrated...his did not. Will share the syllabus with him (I hope that's OK)\n\nI appreciate the detailed syllabus with all of the sources to research. I haven't yet started researching my Irish ancestors but this will definitely get me started in the right place and I feel extremely inspired after this presentation!\n\nI found this webinar quite helpful. I have been working on my family tree for about three years and have accumulated about 2,300 people in the tree. I have been frustrated in the past by not being able to find anything on certain relatives but tonight has given me ideas for many more places to search. Thank you!\n\nI got some peace of mind about the fact that I may not be able to trace possible Irish ancestors and relatives due to the early time period of emigration or destruction of records for later emigrants. And that's okay because beating your head against a brick wall never feels good. ;-)\n\nI had no idea so many resources existed\n\nI learn a great deal about where I need to start my research.\n\nI liked the pictures of the buildings (libraries, etc.) It helps to remember that these are real places. The pictures of documents help familiarize what we might find. Even when the speaker was talking about things outside the time frame my Quaker ancestors were there, he still kept my attention. He spoke quickly without being rushed. Free syllabus with lots of links! Priceless. A follow-up webinar on Quakers in Ireland (or into & out of Ireland) would be great! A mysterious blip in my genealogy.\n\nI made a presentation for a church group so i understand what it takes, how much work, what to put into a power point for researching in Ireland nothing less than 100 slides will do, this was great - outstanding, from someone who has been there and done that : hours in the irish research sites, miles in rental cars, wondering around in sunshine or pouring rain through tombstones, and i walked through the door that my ancestors walk out of on the way to the port and ship to America how great is that !\n\nI now have a broader view of recorders especially the earlier ones.\n\nI picked up several new clues for where to research for our family information. Thank you.\n\nI really appreciate the time the speakers put into their slides and teaching. I was happy to learn, in just over an hour, so much about researching my ancestors from Ireland who arrived in New York State in the 1880s. It's been a struggle, but I feel I will find a whole lot more about them. David Ouimette is a wonderful speaker and an excellent teacher. Thank you for these webinars.\n\nI really appreciate the wealth of sources and information that David Ouimette provided. The syllabus is wonderful and much appreciated. I am going to have to listen to this webinar again. He covered so much information that will help me in my research.\n\nI really enjoyed this presentation. It is so encouraging to hear how much remains available that is being indexed for Irish research. David's presentation was terrific! He is so knowledgeable about what is available and how to access that information; I love it.\n\nI see I have a lot more to do in my Irish Research.\n\nI was impressed by David Oimette's visual way he organized and presented the material. Very readable font but not boring, layers of images one by one. Really what I like to see! Clear speech. Thank you! My arrivals from Londonderry (yes, protestant, not Derry) were 18th century, probably Scotch-Irish, and I now might have a gleam in my eye to delve deeper into records.\n\nI will listen to the webinar again. So many resources I was unaware of. Understanding Irish research is like creating a patch work quilt is a great analogy. \n\nI will never get to Ireland but there were things in this webinar that I have not accessed so will see what I can get going that route.\n\nI wish it was longer. So much information.\n\nI would have liked more in depth info or another webinar about what is available online

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7. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Extensive collection of resources and why to use each. Lots of new options for me!\n\nExtensive. Thanks.\n\nExtremely informative - and the syllabus is incredible. Thanks!\n\nExtremely thorough and full of usable resources!\n\nExtremely useful and thorough run through Irish archives and libraries. Thank you, David!\n\nFabulous, go raibh maith agat!\n\nFantastic overview of which records are available. It will take another viewing and some time to digest all of it, but well worth the time!\n\nFantastic webinar that followed along with the syllabus!\n\nFantastic webinar, thanks.\n\nFantastic webinar. I learned so much from him that should help in my research.\n\nFascinating information. It was great to hear of all the different types of documents to use for research. \n\nGave me hope!\n\nGave me some great tips for my research. Thank you!\n\nGives me hope that maybe there are some records in existence for my family.\n\nGood resources!\n\ngreat handout. speaker very knowledgeable\n\nGreat information and great presenter.\n\nGreat information very clearly summarized. i have researched in Irish records quite a bit and that was one of the clearest overviews I have seen. Thank you.\n\nGreat information!! Seems there is a wealth of information to explore for my Irish ancestors.\n\nGreat inspiring webinar.\n\nGreat Job, David! Thank you BCG for offering these for free.\n\nGreat job; many resources I hadn’t yet encountered.\n\nGreat overview of Irish records and the scope of research.\n\ngreat overview of resources, well presented and organized, great job, David!\n\nGreat presentation!\n\nGreat presentation! Style and information...Wow!!!!\n\nGreat presentation. Thoughtful, well organized and rich with research resource information. Thanks so much!\n\nGreat resources! I have a lot more places to look now.\n\nGreat session. David confirmed to me that I must find where in Ireland my g-grandfather came from; and that info is here in the US. THEN I can do the Irish research. Thanks for the guidance.\n\nGreat sources and information on Irish genealogy resources. David was an excellent speaker who knew his information.\n\nGreat speaker, great information\n\nGreat stuff - thanks!~\n\nGreat webinar with lots of good info.\n\nGreat webinar, but some topics gone over too quickly. I will definitely use the handout to delve in deeper.\n\nGreat webinar. David talked about many types of records I had no idea about! I wasn't sure I wanted to undertake more research of my Irish ancestors based on all the failures I have had so far in finding records of them. Now I have new sources to look at & am excited about going forward!\n\nGreat, refreshing attitude about the burned Irish records! Fantastic photos of each of the repositories--made me feel as if I were there in person! In Q&A he gave a fantastic source for maps of each townland or county. Wow!\n\nGreat.\n\nHe gave a good overview of the information available. One location he missed for Ulster is the Mellon Centre for Emigration www.dippam.ac.uk

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8. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Every minute of this webinar was revelatory and I have glanced at the syllabus and feel like this is going to really propel my Irish research.\n\nExcekkent presentation and great syllabus\n\nExcellant webinar. Glad I attended.\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent and very informative\n\nExcellent ! There was so much information. I loved it !\n\nExcellent and broad coverage of Irish research.\n\nExcellent exposition of Irish resources with examples of documents and their contents. \n\nExcellent handout with so many resources\n\nExcellent information for resources, and how to use. Very Informative \n\nExcellent information! Thanks!\n\nExcellent information, I was afraid there wouldn't be much regarding my Scots-Irish ancestor who immigrated in 1760s but there's more than expected and just learning about the types of records, the different repositories and the online and published resources was extremely helpful.\n\nExcellent presentaion\n\nExcellent presentation\n\nexcellent presentation from a very knowledgeable presenter\n\nExcellent presentation with enthusiasm. I appreciate the time he spent on Northern Ireland sources.\n\nexcellent presentation\n\nExcellent presentation!! I learned about so many resources!\n\nExcellent presentation, very comprehensive\n\nExcellent presentation, very informative and very well presented. I could have listened for at least an hour more.\n\nExcellent presentation. Thank you so very much.\n\nExcellent presentation: lots of material and very well organized. A nice presentation style-- he moved along and didn't belabour points or speak in a condescending manner (as some presenters do). A pleasure to listen to and inspirational to get back at the sources. So glad he mentioned DNA as another source.\n\nexcellent resources\n\nExcellent resources and thank you for the syllabus. \n\nExcellent resources given with great slides\n\nExcellent seminar. Speaker was easy to listen to and kept moving at a good pace.\n\nExcellent Sylabus\n\nExcellent syllabus, references and an unbelievable amount of information.\n\nexcellent talk and syllubus\n\nExcellent update on constantly increasing remote access to Irish records. THANK YOU!\n\nExcellent webinar with such a wealth of information!\n\nexcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! Gave me hope that I might at last find where my Irish ancestor came from and how they lived. \n\nExcellent! I learned! I did not know of most of these records and resources.\n\nExcellent! So much information on records. Thank you!\n\nExcellent!!! Discussion & Syllabus\n\nExcellent, comprehensive information clearly presented.\n\nExcellent.\n\nExcellent. A lot of information packaged nicely. Thank you. \n\nExcellent. Syllabus was great!\n\nExcellent. Well organized. Detailed. Veeery worthwhile even at 930 PM!\n\nExcelllent, very thorough. The advice David gives that you have to do your homework before you go to Ireland or before you begin your research in depth cannot be said often enough. So many are expecting a "quick fix". Thank you for sharing all of your work with us. Loved it!\n\nexcited about checking out some of his ideas

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