Pen and Sword Books: Your Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell

Your Irish Ancestors (2 reviews)

A Guide for Family Historians

by Ian Maxwell
Imprint: Pen & Sword Family History
Found in: Family History Books
Series: Tracing your Ancestors
Paperback
192 pages
ISBN: 9781844157891
Published: 18 September 2008

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Your Irish Ancestors provides an entertaining insight into everyday life in Ireland during the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell's highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth century census returns and school registers will be familiar to researchers, but others have been traditionally overlooked by all but the most experienced genealogists. Each chapter takes the form of a detailed social history showing how the lives of our ancestors changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the records that have survived, and it is in this broad historical approach that Ian Maxwell's work stands out from other guides to Irish genealogy. Your Irish Ancestors is more than just a technical 'how-to-do it' book, for it will help family historians put their ancestral research in historical perspective, giving them a better understanding of the world in which their ancestors lived.

Ian Maxwell's guide for family historians is a cross between a guide and a social history. It is highly informative about the various ways of life of Irish people all over the island over... [read full review]