Information leaflets
The ‘Your Family Tree’ and ‘Local History’ series’ are designed to assist both the beginner and the more experienced researcher. They cover the most popularly consulted archives, indicating their range and content and how they can be accessed.
Other series’ relate to emigration, historical topics and more general information.
- Your Family Tree Series
- Local History Series
- Emigration Series
- Historical Topics Series
- General Information Series
- No.1 - How To Trace Your Family Tree (76KB)
- No.2 - 1901 Census (84KB)
- No.3 - Church Records (50KB)
- No.4 - Valuation Records (121KB)
- No.5 - Census Records (19th Century) (27KB)
- No.6 - Census Substitutes (18th and 19th Century) (31KB)
- No.7 - Wills and Testamentary Records (68KB)
- No.8 - Landed Estate Records (42KB)
- No.9 - Street Directories (64KB)
- No.10 - Voters, Poll and Freeholders Records (65KB)
- No.11 - Emigration Records (109KB)
- No.12 - Militia, Yeomanry Lists and Muster Rolls (34KB)
- No.13 - Poor Law Records (103KB)
- No.14 - Seventeenth-century Census Substitutes (43KB)
- No.15 - Pedigrees And Genealogical Papers (24KB)
- No.16 - Encumbered Estates (21KB)
- No.17 - Registry Of Deeds (25KB)
- No.18 - Business Records (47KB)
- No.19 - Grand Jury Records (63KB)
- No.20 - How To Use Griffith's Valuation (109KB)
- No.21- A Guide To Gravestone Inscriptions (56KB)
- No.22 - Understanding The Stones (69KB)
- No.23 - Tithe Applotment Records (66KB)
- No.24 - A Simple Guide to Ireland (36KB)
- No.25 - General Register Office of Northern Ireland (111KB)
- No.26 - Tracing Your Family Tree at PRONI - Useful Sources (31KB)
- No.27 - Local Authority Burial Records (30KB)
- No.28 - Chart for Tracing Your Family Tree (50KB)
- No.1 - The Townland (52KB)
- No.2 - Church of Ireland Vestry Records (71KB)
- No.3 - Ordnance Survey Memoirs (43KB)
- No.4 - The Books of Survey and Distribution (39KB)
- No.5 - National School Records (47KB)
- No.6 - Solicitors' Records (31KB)
- No.7 - Photographic Collections (52KB)
- No.8 - Ordnance Survey Maps (53KB)
- No.9 - The Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland (31KB)
- No.10 - Sources for Studying Local History (29KB)
- No.1 - Emigration To U.S.A. (32KB)
- No.2 - Emigration To Canada (26KB)
- No.3 - Emigration To Australia (25KB)
- No.1 - R.M.S. Titanic (31KB)
- No.2 - The Belfast Blitz (27KB)
- No.3 - The Great Irish Famine (30KB)
- No.4 - The Act of Union (320KB)
- No.5 - Ulster’s Solemn League & Covenant (117KB)
- Selecting Records for Preservation (31KB)
- The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland: A Brief History (29KB)
- Latin Terminology in Roman Catholic Church Registers (40KB)
- Weights and Measures (30KB)
- Counties in Ireland (27KB)
- Permission to Publish (36KB)
- Indexes to the Civil Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths held at the Family History Centre, Holywood Road, Belfast (22KB)
