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Ancestry Magazine
3/1/2000 - Archive
| March/April 2000 |
Vol. 18 No. 2 |
Further Irish Research
Editor's Note: This article accompanies "Researching Ireland: Begin at Home" by Dwight A. Radford.
Web Sites of Interest
Books for Irish Research
Ireland: A Genealogical Guide. 2nd edition. Betit, Kyle, and Dwight Radford. Salt Lake City: Irish At Home & Abroad, 1998.
A practical outline by genealogists familiar with LDS resources.
Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research. Margaret D. Falley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2 vols., 1981 (orig. pub. 1962).
Continues to be valuable for history and background to the sources; use in conjunction with a more recent guide (e.g., Grenham or Ryan).
Tracing Irish Ancestors: A Practical Guide. Gorry, Paul and Maire Macconghail. Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1997.
Combines good advice, plain language, and a reasonable price.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors. 2nd edition John Grenham, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1999.
There are important additions and changes to the new edition of this useful guide.
Directory of Irish Archives. 2nd ed. Helferty, Seamus and Raymond Refausse. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993.
Summarizes the holdings of the major archives and libraries.
Going to Ireland: A Genealogical Researcher’s Guide. Sherry Irvine and Nora M. Hickey. Victoria: Trafford, 1998.
Good advice on starting Irish research and preparing for a trip.
The Surnames of Ireland. Edward Mclysaght. Dublin: Irish University Press, 1985.
The best book on names, and the introduction is required reading.
Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Iain Maxwell. Edinburgh: Stationery Office, 1997.
Describes the content and value of the main classes of Ulster sources.
A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland. Brian Mitchell. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986.
The commonly used boundary maps in one place.
Ulster Libraries, Archives, Museums and Ancestral Heritage Centres. R. K. O’Neill. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1997.
Locations, hours, major contents.
Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History. Rev. edition. James G. Ryan. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997.
Lists all the major sources by county (with many LDS references); includes brief histories, societies, heritage centers–a good first stop.
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