Follow your ancestors as they journey from Ireland to a new life! Touching on 46,000 Irish passengers who arrived in the United States and Canada, these records focus primarily on the 19th century. Researching original passenger lists can often be tedious and difficult, but this Family Archive makes finding your immigrant ancestors easier than ever. Fully indexed page images mean searching is a snap! The 12 volumes included were provided by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Passenger lists are important primary sources of arrival data for the vast majority of 19th century immigrants to the United States. With the single exception of federal census records, passenger lists are the largest, most continuous, and most uniform body of population records for the entire country.

Between 1847 and 1854, the arrival of more than 1 million Irish marked the first voluntary mass migration to the United States. This Family Archive contains information on approximately 1.5 million individuals who arrived in Boston between 1846 and 1851 and in New York between 1846 and 1865. It was compiled from the original ship manifest schedules filed by all vessels entering United States ports in accordance with an Act of Congress in March of 1819. This resource was produced in collaboration with the Balch Institute Center for Immigration Research and the John F. Kennedy Trust of Wexford County, Ireland. Information was selected, coordinated, and arranged by the Balch Institute and the John F. Kennedy Trust from ship manifest schedules at the National Immigration Archives in Philadelphia. The National Immigration Archives maintains one of the most extensive collections of European immigration data in the Western hemisphere with U.S. passenger lists from 1820 to just before World War I.

Sail across the Atlantic with your Irish ancestors using an all-new volume of Irish to America — completely new details for 550,000+ additional immigrants! Search this fully indexed Family Archive, referencing arrivals in Boston between 1846 and 1851 and New York between 1866 and 1886.

The Tithe Applotment Books are so called because the information was originally compiled in nearly 2,000 hand-written volumes. This data set references the counties that make up present-day Northern Ireland: Counties Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh, and Tyrone. In the original enumeration, each landholder was recorded along with details about their holdings such as size, land quality and types of crops. The amount of tithe payable by each landholder was based on all of these factors and calculated by a formula using the average price of wheat and oats from 1816-23.

In 1796, the Irish Linen Board published a list of nearly 60,000 individuals who received awards for planting between one and five acres of flax. Individuals who planted one acre were awarded four spinning-wheels, and those growing five acres were awarded a loom.

Over forty million Americans now have Irish ancestry. A remarkable aid for painting a complete genealogical picture of families with Irish heritage, this data set indexes approximately 77,047 records from two Irish counties:
• County Londonderry: 62,921 records from 1831
• County Cavan: 14,126 records from 1841

You'll find the indexed images of the pages from thirteen volumes of Irish census, land, marriage, and probate records. In all, approximately 190,000 individuals are referenced within this unique compilation. The information collected here is especially valuable since nearly all of Ireland's pre-1901 census records were lost in a 1922 fire at the Public Records Office in Dublin. This Family Archive includes extensively researched reconstructions of the 1841 and 1851 censuses as well as transcriptions of the surviving 1851 census fragments for County Cork. In addition, you'll find record of wills that were abstracted or copied before the fire.