Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors

A Guide for Family Historians

Ian Maxwell

• Publisher: Pen & Sword
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9781844686902
• Print ISBN:
  9781848841673
• Subtopic: Irish History

"The most definitive guide yet in print of researching Ulster based Ancestry" from the Irish genealogy expert and author (Discover My Past, England and Scotland).
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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Family History From Pen & Sword
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Where To Begin
• Census Records
• Civil Registration
• Eighteenth-Century Records
• Seventeenth-Century Records
• The Plantation Of Ulster
• Church Records
• School Records
• Valuation And Tithe Records
• Landed Estate Records
• Wills And Testamentary Records
• Printed Sources
• Poor Law Records
• Local-Government Records
• Military Records
• Electoral Records
• Law And Order
• Emigration
• Miscellaneous Collections
• Appendix
• Bibliography And Sources