Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors  
A Guide for Family Historians
Author(s): Chris Paton
Published by Pen and Sword
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Straddling parts of Counties Antrim and Down, the city of Belfast has seen its fair share of history across the centuries. From its humble beginnings as a ford based settlement between two tributaries of the River Lagan, it grew following its grant of a charter in 1613 to become a corporation town, and expanded dramatically when later made a city in 1888. Along the way it has experienced the darkest of times, including the Belfast Blitz and the recent Troubles, to some of the most enlightened developments across Ireland and the UK.

In Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors, genealogist and best-selling author Chris Paton returns home to provide a research gateway for those wishing to trace their ancestors from the Northern Irish capital. With a concise summary of the city's history, a tour of some of the city's most amazing archives, libraries and museums, and a detailed overview of the records generated by those who came before, he expertly steers the reader towards centuries of ancestral exploration, both through online resources and within the city of Belfast itself – and with a wee bit of craic along the way!
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Straddling parts of Counties Antrim and Down, the city of Belfast has seen its fair share of history across the centuries. From its humble beginnings as a ford based settlement between two tributaries of the River Lagan, it grew following its grant of a charter in 1613 to become a corporation town, and expanded dramatically when later made a city in 1888. Along the way it has experienced the darkest of times, including the Belfast Blitz and the recent Troubles, to some of the most enlightened developments across Ireland and the UK.

In Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors, genealogist and best-selling author Chris Paton returns home to provide a research gateway for those wishing to trace their ancestors from the Northern Irish capital. With a concise summary of the city's history, a tour of some of the city's most amazing archives, libraries and museums, and a detailed overview of the records generated by those who came before, he expertly steers the reader towards centuries of ancestral exploration, both through online resources and within the city of Belfast itself – and with a wee bit of craic along the way!
Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 A Wee History of Belfast
    • Béal Feirste
    • The charter town
    • Rebellion and union
    • The Famine
    • Industrial Belfast
    • A divided city
    • The twentieth century
    • A northern capital
    • The Second World War
    • The Troubles and beyond
  • Chapter 2 Out for a Dander
    • Administrative boundaries
    • Language / Leid / Teanga
      • English
      • Ulster Scots (Ullans)
      • Irish (Gaeilge)
  • Chapter 3 Belfast’s Guardians and Gatekeepers
    • General Register Office for Northern Ireland (GRONI)
    • Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
    • The PRONI website
    • National Archives of Ireland / An Chartlann Náisiúnta
    • Virtual Record Treasury
    • North of Ireland Family History Society
    • Research Centre
    • Ulster Historical Foundation
    • Belfast Family History Centre (LDS)
    • Belfast Central Library
    • Linen Hall Library
    • Clifton House
    • Queen’s University – The McClay Library and Archive
    • Ulster University Library Services
    • Historical societies
    • Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland (PHSI)
    • Methodist Historical Society of Ireland
    • Land and Property Services
    • Museums
      • Ulster Museum
      • Titanic Belfast / SS Nomadic
      • Northern Ireland War Memorial Museum
      • Royal Ulster Rifles Regimental Museum
      • Police Museum
      • HMS Caroline
      • Museum of Orange Heritage
      • Eileen Hickey Irish Republican History Museum
      • Ulster Transport Museum
  • Chapter 4 Online Repositories
    • Ancestry
    • Findmypast
    • MyHeritage
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Irish Newspaper Archive
    • Eddie’s Extracts
    • FamilySearch
    • RootsIreland
    • Emerald Ancestors
    • The Belfast History Project
    • Discussion forums
      • Belfast Forum
      • Roostchat
      • The Great War Forum
  • Chapter 5 From the Cradle to the Grave
    • Civil registration
      • Births
      • Marriages
      • Deaths
      • Accessing the civil registration records
    • Church records
      • Church of Ireland
      • Presbyterians
      • Roman Catholics
      • Methodists
      • Baptists
      • Moravians (‘United Brethen’)
      • Quakers
      • Belfast’s Jewish community
    • Online church records
    • Burials and Cremation
    • Belfast City Council – online burials resources
      • Belfast City Cemetery
      • Dundonald Cemetery
      • Roselawn Cemetery
      • Accessing the records
    • Belfast City Council’s Other Maintained Grounds
      • Shankill Graveyard
      • Balmoral Cemetery
      • Clifton Street Cemetery
      • Friar ’s Bush Graveyard
      • Knock Burial Ground
    • Other burial grounds
      • Milltown Cemetery
      • St George’s Graveyard
      • St Mary’s, Greencastle
      • Ballymacarrett Methodist Graveyard
      • Abingdon Street Burial Ground
      • Malone Presbyterian Church Graveyard
      • Carnmoney Cemetery
      • City of Belfast Crematorium
    • Other finding aids
  • Chapter 6 A Sense of Place and Value
    • The decennial censuses
    • Census extracts for Old Age Pension applications
    • Ulster Covenant and Declaration of Loyalty
    • 1939 National Identity Register
    • Street directories
    • Electoral records
    • Dissenters’ petitions
    • Maps
    • Valuation records
    • Valuation revision books
    • The Registry of Deeds
    • The Land Registry
    • Irish Land Commission
    • Probate records
  • Chapter 7 Daily Life
    • Gettin’ learned – Education
    • Workhouses and the Poor Law
    • Hospitals and asylums
    • Court records
    • Sport
      • Football
      • Gaelic football and hurling
      • Rugby
      • Cricket
      • Hockey
    • Theatres
  • Chapter 8 Occupations
    • Businesses
    • The linen trade
    • Shipbuilding
    • Trade unions
    • Law and order
    • The British military
      • The British Army
      • The Royal Navy
      • The Royal Air Force
    • The Irish Army
    • The Merchant Navy
    • Coastguards
    • Postal workers
    • Railway workers
    • Architects
    • Artists
    • Solicitors
    • Teachers
    • Medical professions
    • The Churches
  • Chapter 9 Other Resources
    • Newspapers
    • Libraries and archives
    • Online platforms
    • The moving image
    • DNA
  • Further Reading
  • Website Addresses
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