- Paperback: 135 pages
- Publisher: Stationery Office Books (July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0114958238
- ISBN-13: 978-0114958237
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 15.6 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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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.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Tracing your family tree is an utterly rewarding activity, but never cheap. Subscriptions to websites, trips to record-offices and, of course, books, make it an expensive business.
This slim paperback - beautifully-printed, but just 182 pages, may seem expensive: but if you are tracing Northern Irish Ancestors (as I am), then you need all the help you can get, especially since the 1920s saw the destruction of most of the Irish records by fire.
What an excellent volume! Ian Maxwell knows his way around the surviving records (some are online, others in record offices) better than anyone else, and if you are serious about tracing your Ulster ancestors, Catholic or Protestant, then you need to acquire this book to discover those odd records, lists, trade-diectories, fragments of census records, land-records etc. that will help you to tease out vital ancestral details.
This slim paperback - beautifully-printed, but just 182 pages, may seem expensive: but if you are tracing Northern Irish Ancestors (as I am), then you need all the help you can get, especially since the 1920s saw the destruction of most of the Irish records by fire.
What an excellent volume! Ian Maxwell knows his way around the surviving records (some are online, others in record offices) better than anyone else, and if you are serious about tracing your Ulster ancestors, Catholic or Protestant, then you need to acquire this book to discover those odd records, lists, trade-diectories, fragments of census records, land-records etc. that will help you to tease out vital ancestral details.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A useful resource listing most of the records available within Northern Ireland, and a very good guide to the resources at PRONI. Given the title, I would have welcomed more about sources available in other centres, such as Dublin and London - a lot of records relating to employment and the professions are held nationally and tend to be neglected, so the book is not so comprehensive as it seems, but nevertheless extremely valuable.
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Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
8 Sep 2011
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This books has been extremely helpful in my research of the family history. It covers things like how to start, getting organized, library collections, websites, census records and so much more. I have really learned a lot from this book.
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