Belfast Family History

About Belfam

Belfast Family and Community History is a charitable organisation, set up to provide the residents of Belfast and interested parties from around the world with the historical information provided by the 1901 and 1911 census returns. Belfam also provide workshops and presentations for local heritage groups, heritage and history groups, community organisations and women's groups. Click here to find out more about these events

About the site

This information can be used to help build a family tree, but more importantly perhaps to get an intimate view of the lives of grandparents, great grandparents and other ancestors in the Edwardian era, that is, before the Great War and before Partition. The site can also be exploited to build street, neighbourhood and community histories.

Who can benefit from the site

We are all naturally interested in our families and our kinfolk, So, in the first instance, this site can be used by individuals interested in tracing their ancestors. It is also used by family, local and national historians and by teachers and students engaged in studies of their local neighbourhood or community