Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors) - Softcover

Maxwell, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848841671 ISBN 13: 9781848841673

Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History, 2010

Synopsis

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is a key feature of Ian Maxwell’s handbook. He also takes the reader through the records held in many libraries, museums and heritage centers across the province, and he provides detailed coverage of records that are available online. Unlike the rest of the British Isles, which has very extensive civil and census records, Irish ancestral research is hampered by the destruction of many of the major collections. Yet Ian Maxwell shows how family historians can make good use of church records, school registers and land and valuation records to trace their roots to the beginning of the nineteenth century and beyond.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Ian Maxwell, a former record officer at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, is now a freelance writer and a leading expert on Irish genealogy. He conducts courses on genealogy throughout Northern Ireland and he is a regular speaker at genealogical conferences in Belfast and Dublin. He writes articles regularly for Family History Monthly, Your Family Tree and Ancestor magazines on Irish, Scottish and English social history and genealogy. His previous publications include, Researching Armagh Ancestors, Researching Down Ancestors, Your Irish Ancestors and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors.

Review:

“a well written book that is easy to recommend” (FGS FORUM, Fall 2011)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848841671
• ISBN 13: 9781848841673
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192