The Newberry Library is
an independent research facility founded in Chicago in 1887. Since that time
there has been a focus on collecting genealogy and local history publications. Today, there is a dedicated part of the library for these topics. Chicago area Townland of Origin readers will be pleased to see that the library has general Irish collections
and specific Irish genealogy collections.
Some items
of note include:
19th century
newspapers and journals from Ireland
Irish
newspapers from Boston and New York
Pettigrew
and Oulton’s Dublin Almanac (1834-1848)
Griffith's
Valuation
A large
range of local history publication from Ireland
Irish
genealogy reference and 'how to' books
Publications
about Irish immigrants communities in the U.S.
All in all, it seems like a very good place to conduct Irish genealogical research in
Chicago.
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