Links to Useful Websites
Skibbereen Sites
Skibbereen Heritage Centre includes online Graveyard and Loan Fund databases.
Skibbereen Town Information on and history of Skibbereen Town and surrounding areas.
Southern Star newspaper, includes access to archives from 1892.
West Cork Family Websites
Genealogy Help
West Cork Quick Guide My quick guide to tracing your West Cork Roots. (pdf doc)
Irish Genealogy Toolkit Free advice and help for those researching Irish family histories.
People Finders A series of articles on genealogy to help you get started, provided by the People Finders website.
Census Records
National Archives Census Access to both 1901 and 1911 census of Ireland.
Ask About Ireland Acesss toGriffiths Valuation including maps
Failte Romhat John Hayes site. Griffiths, Directories etc for Cork
Ancestry.com USA, British and Canadian census returns . Includes free access to message boards (pay site)
Vital Records
Family Search.org Free access to a wide range of international databases, includes index to Irish civil records.
freebmd.rootsweb.com Vital record index for England and Wales
Emigration Records
Ellis Island New York 1892-1923
Castle Gardens New York pre 1892
Ancestry.com New York, Boston and other US ports (pay site)
Findmypast.co.uk Numerous British records including emigrants from Britain and Ireland to 1922 (pay site)
Church Records
Irish Family History Foundation Irish parish records, search free, pay for details.
Irishgenealogy.ie Records for Kerry and parts of Cork and Dublin.
Other Sites
Movinghere.org.uk Immigration into UK. Many Irish records including Loan Fund records
Library of the University of Southampton includes Irish Parliamentary Papers from 1801-1922
National Archives of Ireland included searchable databases
Rootsweb Free information and databases, mainly American
Bookfinder.com Second hand books
Rootschat’s Cork message board.
Ordinance Survey Ireland Includes 1842 and 1903 maps.
Naming Patterns Traditional Irish naming patterns explained
The IreAtlas Townland Database This site allows you to search of Irish townland database.
Emory University Atlanta Information on how the Famine affected the Skibbereen area.
Coastguards of Yesteryear Information on Irish coast guards from the 18th to early 20th centuries.
Cork Genealogy Links This site contains hundreds of links to sites of interest to anyone researching their Cork roots.