Basic guide to Irish records for family history
By: by Brian Mitchell.
Publisher: Clearfield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780806353739
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Northern Ireland -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Ireland -- Genealogy -- Bibliography; Northern Ireland -- Genealogy -- Bibliography
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc; Bibliography
Description: A primary aim of this book is to dispel the widely-held notion that most records of genealogical interest in Ireland were destroyed during the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922, in which many important historical documents were lost.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52).
Table of contents: title: Getting started; title: The main sources : Civil registers of births, marriages and deaths; Church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Gravestone inscriptions; Wills; 1901 and 1911 census returns; Mid-nineteenth-century Griffith's valuation; Early nineteenth-century tithe applotment books; Other census substitutes; title: Irish administrative divisions; title: The major record offices; title: Irish genealogy centres; title: Websites.