Irish Gravesites

On my mother's side my great grandmother came from Ireland here to the United States. For others that have ancestors in Ireland you can look up where they are buried at Irish Graveyards . There is an ongoing project where grave sites are being transcribed and added on signs to each church graveyard.

If for some reason the church does not have the records then records are taken from the locals as to who is buried where. I was able to find my great grandmother's brother, wife and son in Bohola Cemetery. I am sure they will be updating this site in early spring next year as some places are not done yet. There are also pictures of the grave sites listed. Unfortunately the link to my family's pictures seems to be broken. Please give this site a try and tell my what you think.

I am Back!

Been away for a bit on this blog. Busy trying to get my life in order and get a goal started. I am trying to make it a priority to put at least one day to doing family history and then post here my findings.

Today I found not only was my father's grandfather cremated in Queens but so was his brother-in-law who died in a house fire in 1980.

I am also in the process of getting my great Uncle's death certificate so we can see where he is buried. That is where the rest of the family should be we hope. My father's side of the family has been tough to figure out.

Google Books

Google Books isn't just for finding books you would like to read online in the form of an e-book. There are many books on history that may have some interesting facts about some of your ancestors. Even if Google Books doesn't have the whole book at least it will give you the title and author so you can check to see if there is a copy in your local library.These books also go back quite a few years.

To ensure a better search make sure you put the ancestors name in quotation marks. This will then bring up the exact name and narrow down your search. Otherwise if say your ancestor's name is John Smith and you type it just like that Google Books will come up with entries with the name John and also entries with just the name Smith. Putting the name like "John Smith" will bring back in your search just articles on John Smith not just John or just Smith.

Things you can find in Google Books can be cemetery listings, burials, stories on the person or family themselves, family trees, things they might have done in the town they lived in and so much more. The cemetery listings are usually interment records of burials and since many are old listings you might be able to find a relative. Over the years due to neglect or just age many tombstones are very hard to read making identification of your ancestor almost impossible. At least with these early records you can tell whether they are buried there or not.