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Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Explore Your Carlow or Irish Roots

Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

Documentary, Society & Culture:documentary, History, Society & Culture

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Do you have Irish ancestry? Are you intrigued about the history of Carlow? John Kelly of the Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society offers advice and resources for anyone thinking of making a visit or delving into genealogical research. This is bonu

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0:00.0

So if anyone listening to this wants to look into Carlos history, visit the place, or indeed look into their own family history in Ireland, what steps would you recommend for them?

0:11.0

What I would say is that even before you come to Ireland,

0:14.0

and especially if you have Colonel ancestry,

0:15.8

we are the Carla Historical and Archaeological Society

0:18.8

and all our journals back to 1947, the first one, are freely available on our website.

0:25.3

So anybody can actually read the history of Carl there.

0:28.8

We also have connections to say historic books that are now out of print on Caro so we have I suppose the most important

0:35.0

one for Caro history is is the history of Caro by Brian John Ryan's history published in 1833 which is a huge

0:42.2

history but there's loads of other books in that as well on it.

0:44.6

Also if people are interested in the genealogy or Irish genealogy. i.e. is the state genealogy site and it's free to use.

0:54.0

So there you can actually look at the state record,

0:56.5

so you can look at merges and marriages from the mid-19th century.

1:01.0

You can do a lot of work there, and then there are a number of pay sites, like we have ancestry and sites like that.

1:06.7

But there's a site called Roots Ireland, which is all the Catholic, most of the Catholic,

1:11.4

baptismal and wedding registers available for a fee.

1:16.3

You can stand up for a month or that.

1:18.0

We don't, if you're a Catholic heritage, it's very hard to find church death records because the Catholic church didn't keep the death records to burial records. But if you're Church of Ireland you can't and actually if you're Church of Ireland and you've Carla history, St Mary's Church in Carla is the second oldest set of church records

1:35.6

available and they're available on that Irish genealogy site to go back to 16, the

1:40.7

16-600s. So there's a wealth of information there. So and if you come to Carlo then and you want to look up your local history, our library has a local study section, which is a huge amount of information. Plus has a genealogist that you can make one free

1:55.2

apartment with to do that. And our website Carlohistorical.com, there's a guide on that to

2:01.3

research on Carlo history. if anybody's interested.

2:04.2

Carlo itself it's a great county, speck and smallest county in Ireland and I suppose I'm sure a slight prejudice here

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