Barbara
McGrath
Sources and General Recommended Reading
Books
Brown, Cassie. (1972). Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914. Toronto, Doubleday Canada; Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.
Brown, Cassie. (1976). A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the Florizel. Toronto : Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
Connolly, S. J. ed. The Oxford Companion to Irish History.
Department of Fisheries and the Environment. 1979. Sailing Directions for Labrador and Hudson Bay. Fourth Edition (Ottawa, Canada:. pp. 165-166, Chart # 5135
Fleming, James M Sr. (1999). St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Parish And the Early People of Carbonear, Newfoundland.
Feltham, John. (1990). Northeast from Baccalieu. St. John's, NL: Harry Cuff Publishers. ISBN 0-921191-59-6
Horwood, Harold.
1969. Newfoundland.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 79-79083
Kennedy, John C.
(1995). Peoples of the Bay and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate
of Communities in Southeastern Labrador. Toronto: University
of Toronto Press.
Kennedy, W. ( Captain RN). (1885). Sport, Travel and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies. William Blackwood & Sons.
McCarthy, Mike. (1999). The Irish in Newfoundland 1600-1900. St. John's, NL: Creative Book Publishing. ISBN 1-894294-04-1
MacLysaght, Edward. (1991). The Surnames of Ireland. Irish Academic Press. 6th edition. ISBN 07165 23663
Neary, Peter and Patrick O'Flaherty. (1974). By Great Waters. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802062334
O'Brien, Michael J. (1937). The Pioneer Irish in New England. New York: P.J. Kennedy & Sons.
O'Neil, Paul. (1976). A Seaport Legacy: The Story of St. John's Newfoundland. Erie, Ontario: Press Porcepic.
Parsons, Robert. (1998). Survive the Savage Sea: Stories of Our Ocean Heritage. St, John's, NL: Creative Publishers.
Prowse, D. W. (1895). History of Newfoundland London.
Ryan, Shannon. (19) The Ice Hunters: A History of Newfoundland Sealing to 1914. More
Saunders, Frank. (1981). Sailing Vessels and Crews of Carbonear. St. John's, NL: Robinson-Blackmore.
Seary, E.R. (1977). Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland. McGill-Queen's University Press
Sykes, Bryan. (2001). The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry. Norton, WW & Company, Inc. ISBN: 0393020185
Wells, Spencer.( 2002). The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Random House Trade Paperbacks. Princeton University Press
Woodham-Smith, Cecil. (1962). The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849. NY: Old Town Books.
Periodicals
Brown, Cassie. Castaways on Labrador. St. John's Ladies Journal, 1962.
Mannion, John. Tracing the Irish: A Geographical Guide. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Mannion, John. 2001. Irish migration and settlement in Newfoundland: The formative phase, 1697-1732. Newfoundland Studies, 17(2): 257-293.
Jobling M.A. (2001) Trends Genet 17, 353-355. In the Name of the Father: Surnames and Genetics
"An Unknown Colony"[ review] Kennedy, W. ( Captain RN) Sport. Travel and Adventure in Newfoundland
and the West Indies. (William Blackwood & Sons, 1885.) in The Living Age
166( 2148), 449-512
available online at
Cornell
University Library
SJDN St. John's Daily News Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing
HGS Harbor Grace Standard
COT Carbonear Outport and Telegraph
For archived newspaper articles please search NGB, Newfoundland Gen Web site, and the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador There are also many transcriptions of news tidbits available at Sue O'Neil's site and many archived from the messages posted to the NFLD-ROOTS mail list; please be aware that those message posts are intended for the NFLD Roots archives and permission from person posting is required for reprinting messages . Microfilmed newspapers are also available from the National Archives of Canada and the Family History Library
Encyclopedias
Smallwood, J.R. Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, (5 Vols.). St. Johns: Newfoundland Book Publishers (1967) Ltd., 1981-1994.
DICTIONARY of CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ONLINE a who's who of Canadian History.
Canadiana early Canadian collections online
Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography (1990)Harry Cuff Publications Ltd. St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada ISBN 0-921191-51-0
Microfilm/Microfiche
Family History Library
this is a good place to start your research
Newfoundland Probate Records on LDS films
FHL #2070896
FHL #2070897
FHL #2070898
FHL #2070899
FHL #2070900
Vital Records from Newfoundland Newspapers, 1810 - 1845 on LDS microfiche
FHL#6075631
PANL
Websites
Fleming, James M Sr. Newfoundland Catholics
Kennedy, John C. Coasts Under Stress
Mannion, John. Tracing the Irish.
Parsons, Robert. Shipwrecks
Prowse's History of Newfoundland
Journals, Periodicals, and Newspapers
Contributors
The Newfoundland Grand Bank's website through the work of all volunteer contributors and all listers and posters to the Rootsweb
mail lists for Newfoundland and Labrador.
NFLD Rootsweb Mail List Archives houses a great many posts from researchers and holds several years of archives which provide a wealth of genealogical information. A GRAND group of folks.
North West Carbonear Cemetery provided by Bonnie Hickey with transcriptions posted at the Newfoundland Gen Web site
St. Patrick's RC Carbonear parish records 1850-1899 are provided in the book listed above by Jim Fleming please visit his site to obtain a copy.
I would like to thank cousin Blair Kennedy, Len Seymour, Bill White, Judy Barker, Don Tate, John Baird, Tom Hynes, Sue O'Neil, Barabara Wyley, Jack Connors, Christina Hunt, Chris Shelley, Bill Summers, Denis Noel, Bob Murphy , Ivy Benoit, and my uncle Joe Connors and great grand uncle Lou Kennedy for having left some written history of our family legacy, in the days when it took taking pen to paper.
Online Sources and Libraries
Memorial University of Newfoundland Maritime Archives St. John's, Newfoundland
MUN's collection of Irish Parish Records
MUN's Maritme History Archive CD Ships and Seafarers of Atlantic Canada
MUN's collection Keith Matthews Files
Please check my History Page for Favorite Digital Library Links
Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
Historical Maps of Newfoundland
Cornell University Digital Collection Making of America
Dictionary of Newfoundland English
Family History Library this is a good place to start your research
Please see this Bibliographic Link For further reading on Anthropology and DNA
Newfoundland and Labrador Genealocical Society
Online Photo and Electronic Graphic Collections
Centre For Newfoundland
Studies, Memorial University Of Newfoundland
The album containing these photographs is the
property of Memorial University of Newfoundland and is housed in the Centre
for Newfoundland Studies Archives. The photographs are in the public domain.
Provincial Information And Library Resources Board © copyright to the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Information and Library Resources Board (PILRB).
Web Graphic Collections
Karen's Celtic Web Art Collection
Rowan's Ions and Clip Art Collection
HUMAN RESEARCHERS
Barbara
McGrath
189 Gower Street Ste. 105
St. John's, NL A1C !R2 Canada
709 738- 1912
NOTES If you have any questions regarding any of the sources or citations please feel free to contact me.
Joanne@ancestraldigs.com
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