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function DbInfoMiniDescription() { document.write('12,500 records of Chicago\'s Irish families, often immigrants'); }
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function DbInfoDescription() { document.write('Perhaps as important a destination as Boston or New York for Irish immigrants, Chicago was the destination for many immigrants from the Emerald Isle in the 19th and 20th Century. This database is a collection of records regarding many of the Irish families who made their home in this city between 1875 and 1925. Newly updated to add over 5,000 entries, information provided includes births, marriages, and deaths, often including names of relatives. Taken from a wide variety of sources, including local histories, parish records, local newspapers, and cemetery inscriptions, this can be an extremely helpful database for those researching Irish-American ancestors.<p>The number in brackets following each entry indicates the source from which the record was taken. The sources are as follows: (1) Chicago Daily News, 1878-1902, Funeral Notices; (2) Chicago Citizen, 1883-1909, Obituaries and Marriage Notices; (3) Calvary Cemetery, Tombstone Inscriptions; (4) Mt. Olivet Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions; (5) St. James Sag Bridge Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions; (6) St. Gabriel Parish Records (baptisms, 1908-1909,  marriages, 1908-1915); (7) Visitation Parish Records (marriages 1908-1915); (8) Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Records (marriages 1908-1909); (9) Holy Name Parish Records (marriages 1908-1913); (10) New York City Passenger Lists, 28-29 May 1909; (11) St. James Parish Records (marriages 1908-1915); (12) Death Records of Chicago, 1904; (13) New York City Passenger Lists 3 March 1903; (14) Cook County Births, 1881; (15) Cook County Deaths, 1888; (16) St. Elizabeth Parish Records (marriages 1908-1914); (17) St. Agnes Parish Records (marriages 1909-1915); (18) Inter-Ocean Funeral Notices; (19) Chicago Record Herald Funeral Notices; (20) New World, 1893; (21) The Political History of Chicago by M. L. Ahern, Chicago, 1886; (22) History of Chicago (3 vols.) by Alfred T. Andreas, Chicago, 1884; (23) History of Cook County, Illinois by Alfred T. Andreas, Chicago, 1884; (24) History of the Great Lakes (2 vols.) by J. H. Beers, 1899; (25) Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County and Illinois by Fremont O. Bennett, Chicago, 1886; (26) History of the Chicago Police by John Joseph Flinn, New York, 1887; (27) Holy Family Parish: Priests and People by Thomas Mulkerins, Chicago, 1923; (28) Men Who Have Made the Fifth Ward by H. L. Schroeder and C. W. Forbrich, Chicago, 1895; (29) Researches of the Author, 1974-1992; (30) Nativity Church Baptismal Records, 1871; (31) Bishops of the United States of Irish Birth or Descent by James Dominick Hackett, New York, 1936.'); }
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