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BOOK - Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors
by Margaret Franklin.
Margaret Franklin is the local history specialist in Limerick County Library. She has compiled a comprehensive guide to tracing families in the City and County of Limerick. The title is filled with information on what the records contain, and how and where they can be accessed. It is well illustrated with maps, examples of the records to be found; and other
relevant material. There is also a comprehensive index.
Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Getting Started
- Chapter 2. Administrative Divisions
- Chapter 3. Land Records
- Chapter 4. Censuses & Census Substitutes
- Chapter 5. Church Records
- Chapter 6. Civil Registration
- Chapter 7. Wills, Administrations and Marriage Licences
- Chapter 8. Gravestone Inscriptions
- Chapter 9. Newspapers
- Chapter 10. Commercial & Social Directories
- Chapter 11. Surnames & Family Histories
- Chapter 12. Further Reading and Miscellaneous Sources
- Chapter 13. Archives & Services
- Chapter 14. Internet Sites
- Chapter 15. Useful Addresses
- Index
- Abbreviations
121 pp., Soft Cover, 5.5" x 9", Illustrated & Indexed ; 1998, ISBN: 0 9539974 4 8
What book reviewers are saying:
- Margaret Franklin is the local history specialist in Limerick County Library. In this book she has done a very thorough job of providing all the necessary information for anyone attempting to trace their ancestors in Limerick . ….. If your ancestors came from Limerick , this book will prove invaluable.
Yorkshire Family Historian – March 2005
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This is a highly recommended purchase for anyone with Limerick Ancestry.
NY Genealogical & Biographic Record. Jan.2005
- This book is exactly what you need if you plan to travel to Limerick to trace your ancestors (after you've done your home work). ……. But if you do go, take this book with you. The sources for all these and other records are, of course, provided.
Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 68:96. Winter 2005 issue.
- Tracing your Limerick Ancestors is a 121 page book of great value to genealogists who have ancestors from Co Limerick. Franklin 's comments on many of the sources described could also be of great value to researchers working in other counties... The listing and descriptions of census substitutes in Chapter 4 make this reviewer want to dig in and explore the list of those convicted during 1814 and 1823; a survey of households in connection with famine relief....the lists go on and on.
Irish Genealogists Quarterly 14(2) 2005.
- This volume largely consists of written sources of genealogical information, with general advice on Irish research. It is well illustrated with maps, examples of the records to be found, and other relevant material, and includes a comprehensive index.
Ancestors Feb. 2005
- This book describes genealogical sources for the county of Limerick . ….It is a scholarly review of possible sources of information and contains useful reference material; for example lists of Parishes (both RC and Church of Ireland ) within the county of Limerick . ……… Because of the amount of information contained, every serious researcher into Limerick ancestry should obtain a copy of this book.
Cambridgeshire FHS Journal
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