Some members of the Clare Past Forum have initiated a project which seeks to list people who have emigrated from County Clare and who passed through the emigration station on Ellis Island, New York between 1892 and 1924, using free and publicly available data provided online by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. The project will be managed by Paddy Casey, a member of the forum, in association with Clare County Library staff.

Search tips have been provided by Clare Past Forum member Tom McDowell ( Search Tips).

Transcribers can download a
template for transcribing and mail it in to
clare.emigrants@gmail.com following completion.

It is intended that volunteers will undertake to search for all emigrants from a particular parish. A table showing who has agreed to transcribe which parish is shown on the left.

Anyone who is interested in participating should register their interest in transcribing a particular parish (if they have not already done so) by emailing clare.emigrants@gmail.com. You will then be contacted by the project manager. Please indicate preferred parish.

Links:

clare.emigrants@gmail.com - Register interest in a parish

Clare Ellis Island Online Form form for entering data

Search Tips - Important guide to searching records

Template for transcribing (Excel spreadsheet- if not using online form)

For a list of townlands in each parish follow the link from here... - townland names for each parish are essential for searching records

Clare Past Forum Emigration List Project (1892-1924) on the Clare Past Forum