Books
New books are listed on the 'What's New' page of this site. This page is intended as a means of retaining a record of these books when they are no longer news.
To view these books click here.
Resources
Calendar
This is a full listing of events organised by NIFHS and its branches. It also contains details of events which may be of interest to members.
To view the calendar click here.
Census Strays
The term 'Census Strays' refers to people who are born in one place whose name crops up in a census in another place. In this case the listing is of people who are recorded in English censuses as being born in Ireland.
This section of our website contains details of over 15,000 records of persons living in households with one or more people of Irish origin.
For further details and to browse the records click here.
Links
New links are listed on the 'What's New' page of this site. This page is initially intended as a means of retaining a record of these links when they are no longer news. Other useful links will be added to this page in the near future.
To view these links click here.
Look-Up Scheme for Members
The society is offering a look-up service for branch and associate members with e-mail. A member of the society has volunteered to do look-ups of the Church Registers held by the society for members.
Further details and a list of the Church Registers available can be found by clicking here.
Maps
Following the successful introduction of Google search engines to the website; I am exploring the use of Google maps. Currently the map is being used to show the Society Library and where branches hold their meetings, I would like to add markers to show locations of libraries and archives of interest to members. I would welcome suggestions from members for other uses of the maps, one suggestion was to indicate the location of graveyards.
The Maps can be viewed by clicking here.
Search Engines
A search engine for this site can be found by clicking here.
A NIFHS genealogical search engine can be found by clicking here. This search engine cuurently searches 58 websites of interest to people researching their families in the North of Ireland and Ireland generally. It is in the nature of webpages returned as a result of a search that the information may be missing its context and a subsequent search of the specific site may be beneficial. A full listing of the sites included will appear on the links page of the website. The webmaster welcomes comments about how the search engine operates and suggestions for sites that should be included in the search engine. Please address comments to the Webmaster at: web@nifhs.org
Toolbar
The webmaster has taken advantage of an offer from our web hosts Easyspace and an associated company Conduit to design a free downloadable toolbar specifically for the use of members. The toolbar works with both Internet Explorer and Mozilla and has been modified to reflect members interests. The toolbar contains a number of search engines including Google and the two NIFHS search engines; a dropdown menu for the NIFHS website giving quick access, a 'Links' menu giving access to a selection of relevant websites, and a 'ticker' giving the latest news from NIFHS. Members can personalize the toolbar to their individual tastes from a range of additional elements accessible from the dropdown menu beside the NIFHS logo
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The toolbar can be downloaded by clicking on the toolbar above.
