‘Fake News’ , ‘alternative facts’, conflicting genealogical evidence, whatever title you use, how do you apply it when researching your Kerry ancestors? In other words, what ‘facts’ can you believe in? Just because you are on a certain genealogy website, and you find a name exactly or similar to your ancestor who lived at […]
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Kerry Genealogy in Courts
Did your Kerry Ancestor pawn a coat, own a wandering pig, or ‘commit a breach of the Sabbath’? While Genealogy in its purest form is defined in the English Dictionary as ‘a line of descent of a person or family from earliest known ancestor’, my training in Family History and Genealogy goes much further. We […]
A Kerryman & the French Revolution
Conducting research into the papers of Francis Thomas Fitzmaurice 3rd Earl of Kerry in the French National Archivees is not an easy job. The actual volume of material, the overheated reading room, the identification of the French receipts all took their toll. My son Marc and I spent a number of days last week examining […]
Fr. Ferris’s Parish Histories
A fascinating book Fr. Ferris’s Parish Histories:BallymacElligott, Ballyseedy, O’Brennan and Nohoval will be launched next Thursday 7th June in Ballygarry House Hotel, Tralee, by Bishop of Kerry Ray Browne. This book edited by Brendan McCarthy after five year’s work on the original manuscript, will be of immense interest not alone to natives of the parishes […]
A Killorglin Emigrant
To-day I want to tell you about just one Kerryman and the search by his descendant Anne MacKay for information on his birthplace and wider family. There are a few ‘roadblocks’ and brick walls highlighted in this search and the solutions may help another descendant on your hunt for that elusive Kerry ancestor. Anne says : […]
A Kerry Burial Story
I would hope that the headline here does not give the wrong impression. Finding a grave in Kerry is not as easy as it may sound in this story. I get numerous requests asking if it is possible to find a grave in various locations in the county and there are two answers really. If […]
Trant Tenants Dingle 1791-1792
This rental of 63 Tenants in the Trant estate in Dingle 1791-1792, is a copy of the transcription by Jim Ryan of Flyleaf Press and published on AncestorNetwork ‘This rental of 63 tenants in the Dingle area of County Kerry is in the Trant Papers in the National Library of Ireland collection. The Trant family were originally from this […]
Kerry Great Famine Population Impact
Discover the impact of the Great Irish Famine on the population of your own particular Civil Parish of Kerry which we have extrapolated from all Irish Civil Parishes in IrishFamineProject.com The Great Famine’s impact on each local area is demonstrated clearly in an innovative interactive map. Alan Fernihough and his team at Queens University, Belfast […]
Kerry Descendant – Irish Passport
We get so many enquiries from Kerry descendants about acquiring an Irish Passport, we are outlining to-day the rules governing the application and granting of Irish passports through descent. While applying for and acquiring an Irish Passport through Irish descent is fairly straightforward, there is the usual amount of paperwork (as expected) to get in […]
A Ballymacelligott Memoir
Jerry Savage, who died on 22 March 2014, , lived a full and happy life of eighty seven years mostly in Ballymacelligott with a spell working in London in the 1950s. It is a memoir well worth reading and if you are from Ballymac and neighbouring locations, it is a must. Jerry was involved […]