Tracing Your Irish Ancestors. Fifth Edition - Softcover

Grenham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080632094X ISBN 13: 9780806320946

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2019

Synopsis

Tracing Your Irish Ancestors

is the definitive Irish genealogy book. In this fully updated edition by leading genealogist John Grenham discover how to trace your Irish ancestry.

Mr. Grenham's work combines all the best features of a textbook and a reference book, expertly describing the various steps in the research process while at the same time providing an indispensable body of source materials.

The new fifth edition retains the familiar three-part structure, combining a detailed guide for beginners with thorough descriptions of all the relevant sources and county-by-county reference lists. All the information has been expanded and updated, and the extensively expanded index makes the book even easier to use.

Genealogical research in Ireland has always depended on records that are more fragmented, localized, and difficult to access than anywhere else. The Internet is changing that. More and more of these records are coming online. This book is an indispensable guide to what these records are, where they are, and what they mean. It serves as a directory to online records, discussing their uses and outlining research strategies. Most useful are the subsections to each of the county source lists, showing county Internet sources.

References are given throughout for any online versions of the records dealt with. Along with its step-by-step instructions in the location and use of traditional genealogical records, its discussion of civil records of birth, marriage, and death as well as land records and wills, and its list of Roman Catholic parish records and source lists, this guide is easily the most useful book in Irish genealogy.

About this title

About the Author

John Grenham wrote the Irish Roots column in the Irish Times for years and ran the Irish Times Irish Ancestors website. He is a fellow of the Irish Genealogical Research Society and the Genealogical Society of Ireland, having come to professional genealogy in 1981 as one of the panel of researchers in the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland. He features frequently in the popular TV series Who Do You Think You Are?

Edition details

• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 080632094X
• ISBN 13: 9780806320946
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 674