Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research: A guide to the Genealogical Records, Methods, and Sources in Ireland - Hardcover

Falley, Margaret D

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806309180 ISBN 13: 9780806309187

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

This is the best book on Irish genealogy ever published. The first volume is a guide topreliminary research. It describes genealogical collections and indexes in all the major Irish repositories and the published indexes, catalogues, and printed sources available in Ireland and the United States. The various chapters detail the types of records that exist and where, the nature and extent of the holdings, dates of coverage, and the existence of indexes to wills and probates, birth, marriage and burial records, land, census and tax records, and church and parish records. Volume Two is a bibliography of family histories, pedigrees, and source materials published in books and periodicals. It covers such printed works as parish, town and county histories, church records, and family histories. It also has a list of over 1,400 manuscript family histories deposited in public record offices, a survey of the microfilm holdings of various American and Irish institutions, inventories of other manuscript collections, and an index of family history articles appearing in over twenty periodicals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0806309180
• ISBN 13: 9780806309187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 813