1. Write down all the information that you have in an ordered fashion eg group sheets, family tree maker or a word processor
2. Check out the 1901 and 1911 censi
3. Search online with roots chat and ancestry.co.uk
4. Record all references with dates, saves you repeating research.
5. Make a logical to do list, letters to write, people to visit, places to visit.
6. Check out online sources through Cindy's list.
7. Research the history of the era you might get an insite of how your relative lived, adds flesh to the narrative.
8. Most important of all write it up in a fashion that enables persons coming after you to be able to understand it.
9. Pass it on.

Places to Visit

1. County Library - Newspapers, local Directories
2. City Library - newspapers, local directories
3. Boole Library (Limited access)

List of useful websites

•  Trace you family History at the Cork County Library http://www.corkcoco.ie/co/web/Cork%20County%20Council/Departments/Library%20%26%20Arts%20Service/Trace%20Your%20Ancestors

•  Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/

•  Grifith's valuation http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml

•  Searchable parish records http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html

•  List of DEDs i.e. District Electoral divisions http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/genealogy/corkcitydeds/

•  Irish Roots Magazine http://www.irishrootsmedia.com/

•  Printable Family Trees http://www.obituarieshelp.org/free_printable_blank_family_tree.html

•  1901 and 1911 Censi http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

•  Piggots Directory http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mturner/cork/cork_city_pigot_merch.htm

•  24 hour Genealogist http://24-7genealogist.com/how-it-works

•  Births deaths and marriages Ireland http://www.groireland.ie/ http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie/

•  Irish ancestors on the Irish times website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/

•  Irish Death Notices http://www.rip.ie/

•  Free Books online http://freeirishgenebooks.blogspot.com/

•  Irish Family history Foundation http://www.rootsireland.ie/

•  Cork Lirbraies http://www.corkcitylibraries.ie/

•  Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com/

•  Unitarian church records http://www.unitarianchurchcork.org/BaptismRecords.html

•  Commonwealth war graves commission http://www.cwgc.org

•  Births deaths and marriages for Ireland http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie/

The Irish Family History Society www.ifhs.ie

The association of Irish Genealogist in Ireland www.apgi.ie

Uk and Irish Genealogu www.genuki.org

Find my past www.findmypast.ie

Irishtimes ancestor pages Irish Ancestor

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