Tracing Your Family Tree at PRONI
Use this as the main starting resource for visitors researching Northern Irish ancestry. It introduces the records and archive sources that can help connect family names with people and places.

Tracing Your Family Tree at PRONI

Your Family Tree

Church Records

Include as a practical research resource. Church records can help visitors trace baptisms, marriages, burials, family relationships, parishes, and local communities.

Tithe records

Include it as another research resource for connecting ancestors with particular townlands, landholdings, and places.

The Belfast Blitz

Use as historical context for families connected with Belfast, particularly those whose relatives lived or worked in the city during the Second World War.

R.M.S. Titanic

Use as a Belfast heritage story, with the family-history connection focused on the city, Harland & Wolff, shipyard workers, and local communities connected with the Titanic.