Sources for Irish Family History

A list of books & articles on specific Irish families. Almost all deal with particular families & vary from fond accounts of families and their ancestral homes to dispassionate, well-researched & fully documented family studies and pedigrees. Their greater value is to put a human dimension to the barren facts in the usual records. No church or civil record will inform us that our ancestors were wonderful singers or dancers; or of the details of their occupations; nor whether their recorded marriages were the culminations of great romances, or of family arrangements. Such information can, however, be occasionally found in the articles and books listed here.

ISBN 0953997421   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780953997428 (What's this?)   Pages 180 Publisher Flyleaf Press   Published in Dublin Imprint Flyleaf Press   Height (mm) 240 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 170 Publication date 15 Jul 2001   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY 929.209415   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, General

Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations and sources; Listing of family sources; Placename index

The sources are not your usual ones, so they provide new avenues to research. ... The book contains good source information which should not be overlooked, as it gives both name and place and can be followed, even if your family name is not the one referenced, because of the county leads. Not your usual references, so there is no duplication. St. Louis Gen. Soc. Quarterly Spring 2005 Anyone who is engaged in Irish genealogy will want to check this book for their family namesNY Genealogical & Biographic Record. Jan.2005 Sources for Irish family History is first and foremost a work of reference and, as such, it succeeds very well. A... A piece of advice often given to family historiansA...is to try to establish whether there already exists published information on the families they are interested in. A... If your ancestors lived in Ireland , this could be the first place to look for such a reference.Yorkshire Family Historian March 2005

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