Pen and Sword Books: Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors by Ian Maxwell

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors (6 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: 9781848841673
Published: 6 April 2010

Introductory Offer
£10.39

RRP £12.99

Get this title for just £8.83 by becoming a Platinum Member. Whats this?

+£4 UK Delivery or free delivery if order is over £30
(click here for international delivery rates)

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 centres 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.

Dr Ian Maxwell, a former record officer at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, is now a freelance writer and a leading expert on Irish genealogy. He conducts courses on genealogy throughout Northern Ireland and he is a regular speaker at genealogical conferences in Belfast and Dublin. He writes articles regularly for Family History Monthly, Your Family Tree and Ancestor magazines on Irish, Scottish and English social history and genealogy. His previous publications include, Researching Armagh Ancestors, Researching Down Ancestors, Your Irish Ancestors and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors.

Product Reviews

Ian Maxwell, a former record officer at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, knows his history and records well. This comes across clearly in this well-written book that is easy to recommend. read full review]

Paul Milner, FGS Forum, Spring 2011

Long before the Irish Famine of the 1840's, migrants were regularly making their way to Britain from Ireland, with the Irish the largest ethnic group to have settled in England over many centuries. read full review]

Discover my Past, England and Scotland

This is an essential guide for novice and expert family researcher alike. Northern Ireland records are sparse in comparison to the census records available to the rest of the British Isles, many major collections have... [read full review]

Tom

Anyone who has attempted to explore their Irish ancestry will be familiar with the difficulty of this task linked to the destruction of many major collections of civil and census records across Ireland, a lasting... [read full review]

T. Kiernan

Ian Maxwell is a former record officer at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). In this new guide he shows family historians how to make good use of the surviving records, particularly those... [read full review]

Family Tree

This is [Maxwell's] latest book providing the reader with an introduction to the materials available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. It is often said that most Irish records were destroyed circa 1921,... [read full review]

William Bortrick, British Association for Local History

Customer Reviews

Perfect Partner