Professionally qualified genealogist in Northern Ireland - research undertaken throughout Ireland.
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Roots Revealed provides genealogy and family history research for your Irish and Northern Irish ancestors. Services include:
- Family history research
- House histories
- Document retrieval from archives
- Assistance with documentation for Irish citizenship
- Bespoke genealogy tours
- Genealogy courses and talks
Roots Revealed is owned by Natalie, an experienced genealogist with a Post Graduat
e Certificate in Genealogical, Heraldic and Palaeographic Studies from the University of Strathclyde. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and a member of various family history societies. Roots Revealed is based in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and can undertake genealogy research throughout Ireland and further afield, while specialising in Ulster and Northern Ireland. Natalie is also a qualified tour guide - she would be delighted to help you to build an itinerary for your visit to Ireland and guide on your journey of discovery, particularly for those who would like a bespoke ancestral tour and to walk in the footsteps of their ancestors. Natalie delivers regular ‘Genealogy: Researching Your Family History Courses’ - this is an evening course that will show you how to carry out your own family history research. She is also a regular speaker on a range of Irish genealogy topics on the local, national and international circuit. Don't hesitate to get in touch to discuss any work you would like done and see if Roots Revealed can help you to uncover the story of your Irish, Northern Irish or Ulster Scots ancestors.
The dates for the next EXPLORING YOUR ROOTS IRISH GENEALOGY COURSE have been released. This 10-week course will be delivered live online and you will have access to comprehensive course materials and recordings of each session. The course runs from 03 September to 05 November 2024. Early bird pricing is available until 16 August. For more information and to book your place, please go to https://rootsrevealed.co.uk/genealogy-courses/
Lots of great material to be found here, so be sure to pop in if you're in the area.
Discover your roots at The Really Useful Family History Show in Belfast!
Ten exhibitors, including the North of Ireland Family History Society - see you there!!
This offer is valid until 16th July.
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Have you always wanted to research your family history but didn't know where to start? Well this is the course for you! The dates for the next EXPLORING YOUR ROOTS IRISH GENEALOGY COURSE have been released. This 10-week course will be delivered live online and you will have access to comprehensive course materials and recordings of each session. It runs from 03 September to 05 November 2024. Early bird pricing is available until 16 August. For more information and to book your place, please go to https://rootsrevealed.co.uk/genealogy-courses/
I'm looking forward to delivering my next talk which is 'Unearthing the Treasures in the Irish Registry of Deeds' for Ontario Ancestors - The Ontario Genealogical Society. The talk will be delivered at 7.00pm EDT which is midnight BST in the UK and Ireland, so a late one for me. The talk is free for members and $10 for non-members which includes access to the recording for 2 weeks. I hope to see you there! The link to book your place is here:
The Registry of Deeds based in Dublin has survived intact since 1708 and it manages the legal registration of property.
I'll be in great company delivering talks with fellow genealogists in October for the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa conference - the link to book your place is below.
Check out the stellar line-up of speakers for the BIFHSGO virtual conference on October 26-27. If you have Irish ancestors, you won't want to miss it. Registration opens on SEPTEMBER 1. More information on the BIFHSGO website: https://www.bifhsgo.ca/2024-conference
Folks, Mid and East Antrim Council are planning an event to commemorate the centenary of Ballymena War Memorial where they will reflect on the laying of a wreath in 1924 by four boys who had lost their fathers.
The event will include details on the four men being commemorated and will include a programme of music and readings.
It has proved difficult to connect with the descendants of one of the families.
The soldier who died was Rifleman Hugh NICHOLL of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, Regimental Number 40941. He was the son of John and Jane NICHOLL.
Hugh died in France on 18 April 1917, aged 25 and is commemorated at St Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Hugh was married to Ellen ‘Nelly’ STEWART on 13 February 1912 in High Kirk Presbyterian, Ballymena, County Antrim. The couple had three children:
• James Crawford NICHOLL born on 23 October 1913 at Railway Street, Ballymena
• Hugh Crawford NICHOLL born on 09 January 1915 at Prospect Place, Ballymena
• Jeannie NICHOLL born on 03 June 1916 at Prospect Place, Ballymena
James was the boy who laid the wreath in 1924 to commemorate his father.
The council is keen to connect with descendants of the family.
If you are a descendant, please get in touch with David Hume at Mid and East Antrim Council by emailing [email protected]
One of my favourite TV shows will be on air soon. Here is the information about this year's line up.
A brand new batch of celebs will be delving into their family trees this summer. Here's everything you need to know.
Here is the second video interview with Aimee Cross who runs Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints YouTube Channel. In this video, I reveal my top five websites to research your Irish ancestry. Best of all, these websites are free!
🍀 Unlock Irish Roots with these top 5 FREE websites for Irish Genealogy! Don't miss these helps for your family history in Ireland! Join me and Irish geneal...
Seeing the 80th Anniversary of D-Day commemorations brought back memories of a trip we took two years to Normandy to visit the WW2 sites on a tour organised by my brother. We visited St Mere Eglise where the church has an effigy of parachutist John Steele who got caught in the spire during the landings; Utah, Omaha and Sword beaches; museums such as the American Airborne Museum, Maisy Battery, Longues-Sur-Mer Gun Battery and the British Airborne Museum; Allied cemeteries and the German cemetery at La Cambe; Pegasus Bridge and the Madame Grondee cafe; Arromanches where the Mulberry Harbour was built. It was a really enjoyable family holiday but it was sobering in many ways - being there lets you see the difficulties due to the terrain and the vast numbers who died that are commemorated in the cemeteries. If you get the chance, do go. Here are some photos from the trip.
To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, Ancestry are giving free access to their military records from 05 - 11 June.
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Here is the first of two interviews that I did with Aimee Cross, a genealogist from the United States who has a great YouTube channel that is packed with informative videos. The second video airs next week.
🍀 Want to research your ancestors in Ireland? What do you need to know BEFORE you move your genealogy research efforts to Ireland. Don't fall into the trap ...
Good news for those who research Dublin records. Some of the databases on Dublin City Council's website that were taken down earlier this year have been temporarily uploaded to John Grenham's website. You can read his blog post here and find the link to his website where the databases are available as free to view resources:
Only in genealogy do obituaries become oddly exhilarating...📚🔍💡🌳
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Last week's research project was for a Scottish family that had a number of ancestral lines that originated in Ireland. Some of those connections were known while other previously unknown Irish branches were also found. Exactly where in Ireland these Irish ancestors came from had not been known prior to the research, but searches in the 1921 Scottish Census provided the parish of birth for some of these individuals. One direct ancestor Henry had his brother Hugh, his Irish-born sister-in-law and niece living with him in in the 1881 Scottish census. Both Henry and Hugh were born prior to civil registration of births in 1864 and no record of Henry's baptism was found. By taking the research in a lateral direction and researching the brother Hugh, a townland and parish of residence was found for the family in County Donegal.
On Monday 22 April and Tuesday 23 April, the PRONI Reading Room and document production will be unavailable to the public until 1.00pm to facilitate the completion of construction work.
The PRONI Search Room will remain open to the public on both days.
The next in the series of monthly lectures organised by the Glens of Antrim Historical Society will take place on Friday 19th April 2024 at 8.00pm, in the usual venue of St Mary’s Par…
I'm looking forward to delivering An Introduction to Irish Family History Research for the Guild of One-Name Studies tomorrow evening. The talk is on Wednesday 10 April 2024 at 7.30pm BST and it's open to non-members, although you do need to book. For more information and to book, please visit the website
An Introduction to Irish Family History Research with Natalie Bodle Posted 13 December 2023 by Julie GoucherThe Four Courts under bombardment from the National Army, June 1922. RTE Stills Library. http://www.thejournal.ie Irish ancestry research has the reputation of being tricky due to the destruct...
Local history comes to life. Here's one for the diary if you will be in County Antrim.
You may have heard a few whispers of Glenravel’s Iron Ore industry coming back to life! . . . Well we are now very, very pleased to announce the first ever GLENRAVEL INTERNATIONAL FURNACE FESTIVAL coming to Newtoncrommelin village from the 6th to the 9th of June this year.
In partnership with the Irish Iron Heritage Foundation and featuring in Mid and East Antrim Borough Councils Industrial Heritage Week, we are excited to welcome expert smelters and blacksmiths from around the world to our little corner of the Antrim hills.
Over the festival we will take mud and clay from the land around us and build Iron Age era furnaces, we will take iron ore from the Glenravel mines, smelt it with charcoal made from Irish trees, create iron and forge some traditional items. This is a traditional skill you do not get to see every day and the first time in over 100 years that iron items will have been produced from Glenravel Ore. The 4 days will be filled with demonstrations, displays, hands on workshops, talks and tours paying due tribute to Glenravel’s iron ore mining heritage.
Fittingly this will take place on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the village of Newtoncrommelin by Nicholas Crommelin of French Huguenot descent. Founded initially as an agricultural colonising trial, iron ore was soon discovered, and a large furnace built, which still stands at the edge of the village. While Nicholas Crommelin wasn’t successful in smelting ore himself, others were, and he was at the start of an industry that peaked in 1880 with 120,000 tons of ore shipped from Glenravel that year. That is equivalent to 15 of those 20-ton lorries currently on the road, every day, mined by hand, from the hills around Glenravel.
Half a ton of ore will be more than enough for us at the festival and with expert smelters and smiths from USA, Canada, Denmark, UK, and Ireland so far, already signed up we are guaranteed to have more success smelting than Nicholas Crommelin.
Check out www.tenthglenhf.co.uk/furnace-festival to find out more and stay tuned to this page over the coming weeks for more information and announcements. Tenth Glen Heritage Farms mission is to preserve and celebrate our local heritage in a way that supports our local community and we do not believe in doing things by halves. We will be relying on the renowned Glenravel community spirit coming together both at home and overseas to help us make this event the success it promises to be for Glenravel. There will be some requests for help along the way but for now save the date for the 19th and 20th of April for a warmup event for the Glenravel Internation Furnace Festival running from the 6th to the 9th of June 2024.
Shaped by Sea and Stone The Furnace Festivals of Ireland Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust MEA Outside Visit Causeway Coast and Glens Causeway Coast and Glens
Excellent news from MyHeritage . Now my clients can safely share their dna results with me for analysis and further research.
We've added the option to securely share DNA results with another user on MyHeritage, typically a DNA expert, to analyze your DNA Matches.
As always, a terrific range of FREE genealogy talks on different subjects from Legacy Family Tree.
We're excited to announce The 5th Annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon hosted by FamilyTreeWebinars.com and MyHeritage. The marathon will begin on Thursday, April 11 at 5pm eastern U.S. time (Friday, April 12 at 7am Sydney time) and end on Friday,...
I'm looking forward to my next talk which is 'Townlands, Parishes and Baronies - Understanding Land Administrative Units in Ireland' for the Augusta Genealogical Society. The talk will be delivered via Zoom on Sat 23 March at 11.00am EST (3.00pm GMT). For more information please see the website https://www.augustagensociety.org/march-program.html
Learn about Ireland's Land Administrative Units for genealogical research.
Interested in finding out more about Belfast Street names? This new website could help.
As part of Imagine! Belfast Festival of Politics and Ideas, Martin Magill took us on a fascinating journey through the streets of Belfast with an insightful talk and the launch of the Belfast Street Names website 🔗https://www.belfaststreetnames.com/
His presentation highlighted the rich history behind Belfast's street names. Thank you, Martin!
It was great to catch up with Catherine Morrow, Services Manager, Collections and Cultural Heritage at Belfast Central Library to donate a copy of my book Tracing Your Ancestors Using Irish Newspapers and Other Printed Materials. During research for the book, Catherine was kind enough to give me help and information about the wonderful resources held in the Belfast Newspaper Library which is located in Belfast Central Library and is part of Libraries NI. The Newspaper Library has the largest collection of newspapers available to the public in Northern Ireland with a collection that dates from the eighteenth century including the Belfast Newsletter from 1759 and rare and unique holdings of the Northern Star and the Londonderry Journal. The library also has newspapers published across the island of Ireland and national papers published in England.
It was lovely to meet up with Samantha McCombe, Head Librarian at The Linen Hall Library to donate a copy of my book, Tracing Your Ancestors Using Irish Newspapers and Other Printed Material. Samantha and her team were very helpful with my research for the book and their unique resources feature in the book. Genealogists will be particularly interested in the Library's collection of Street Directories, an extensive range of genealogy books, a postcard collection, newspapers and Indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Belfast Newsletter, 1738-1863.
25% discount offer from Roots Ireland
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On , I really enjoyed seeing the new bronze statues of Winifred Carney (1887-1943) and Mary Ann McCracken (1770-1866) that were unveiled today. They take pride of place on either side of Belfast City Hall - two independent women of strong beliefs, convictions and activism and the first non-royal women to have a statue in the grounds of Belfast City Hall. Congratulations to the sculptors and - the statues really are very good.
Read this post at DNAexplain about price reductions for DNA testing kits from FamilyTreeDNA . The reductions on all types of test and upgrades runs till the end of March.
Yesterday, I wrote about how to find the RootsTech vendors’ online booths. So, guess what I found in the online FamilyTreeDNA RootsTech booth – a list of their show prices AND the associated …
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Here's a short video about the second talk I'll be delivering for RootsTech 2024. It's about using the Irish Registry of Deeds to find information about your Irish ancestors. This talk will be delivered online and registration for the online event is free. #RegistryofDeeds #Irishgenealogy #RootsTech
Here's a short video about the talk 'Who Were the Scots-Irish?' that I'll be delivering in-person at RootsTech 2024. I hope to see you there! #ScotsIrish #UlsterScots #RootsTech
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