Irish Genealogy Tips Techniques and Tales eBook M D Healy
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Irish Genealogy Tips, Techniques and Tales makes a great addition to an Irish family researcher's reference library. The book contains Irish genealogy problem solving tips and techniques, to include finding an ancestor's birthplace, deciphering illegible handwriting, translating Irish place names, working with transcription errors, and much more. Some Irish roots travel tips, Irish immigration patterns, children name customs, a "brick wall" case study, and a list of popular Irish genealogy reference books are also included. The book ends with a few short Irish traditions and Celtic history stories told with some humorous twists. Beautiful scenic Ireland photos appear throughout the book. May you be blessed with the opportunity to travel to Ireland someday to visit your Irish ancestors' birthplaces and walk in their foot steps. Five percent of the book sales' royalties support selected Irish youth programs in Ireland.
Irish Genealogy Tips Techniques and Tales eBook M D Healy
I'm Irish by reverse-osmosis -- my grandsons have Irish blood in them from my daughter-in-law's side! Now that I've got the Irish heritage bug, I'm doing a little research to help fill out the ancestry forms for the kids. My paid-professional genealogy guru at the local library told me that this book has any number of great tips and tricks to trace one back to the good St. Patrick himself. Well maybe not exactly, but you get the idea. Could be an interesting paper chase, and, with the luck of the Irish, this book has been an excellent place to start!Product details
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Irish Genealogy Tips Techniques and Tales eBook M D Healy Reviews
Compact and fascinating, this easily read, fact filled book will leave the armchair genealogist yearning for a journey to the Emerald Isles. The author is a professional genealogist who shares valuable tips on conducting family research not found elsewhere. While specifically written to help others discover their Ireish heritage, anyone researching family history will learn valuable clues that will help avoid enevitable "dead ends" that one frequently encounters when investigating the past. The author shares humorous antedotes and has organized his book to make genealogy fun and entertaining. Mike Healy's Irish Genealogy Tips, Techniques and Tales is to Irish heritage as E. B. White's Element of Style is to writing an essay. Healy's book is a pleasant armchair read that will temp you into discovering your roots, Irish or not. I give him five glowing stars.
M. D. Healy parcels out advice in helpful bits. For instance, disparity between where an infant is born and where the census records the baby's residence may be attributed to the mother's tendency to return to her own ancestral home to give birth. Naming orders for sons and daughters delineate the maddening tendency (my pedigree attests to this!) of repetition every two or three generations. In the past, the range by horse or bicycle might explain the relative proximity of a courting couple's homes.
Looking into the Constabulary data, as well as parish baptismal records, can replace the lack of census information for many decades in the nineteenth century. Abbreviations of first names (or in parish documents, the Latin forms of them) common in data, it's good to expand searches in archives to account for these--as well as surname variants. The author also reminds us of transcription errors. (I have one clan in my family tree I've found spelled in the records three ways over two generations.)
Healy intersperses, more willy-nilly into the short sections of a few paragraphs, his own north Mayo connections and culture, place-name or local Irish lore, and application for "Citizenship by descent" guidance. (He errs when citing as "1830" the Republic of Ireland's legalization of this status; I also think that it merits mention that such a status cannot be passed on to one's own foreign-born descendants.) You even get a distant cousin's shaggy-dog tale about the Irish genetic descent from the Basques.
All in all, this replicates a genial long chat in a pub with a professional genealogist. However, it's a very, very brief e-book. My had no table of contents, and while a short reading list is appended, more was needed in the text about "finding your Irish ancestor's birthplace" as to the learning where the locations of "the full compliment" of records might be consulted. Some records are now coming online, but many have or will not. Knowing the difference for those who may have hit that "brick wall" in an initial online search would assist the American audience for this book.
Healy's approach rambles even within these small parameters, but the tips he shares will encourage those who now have the benefit of the Net to do what some of us--not long ago--had to do with waits for the big tomes at Dublin's Public Record Office, the tax records from the Land Valuation archive, or the microfiche lists at Irish county libraries. These, still, may be consulted with benefit, by professional or amateur genealogists. His comments here are parsed out as but a few in total, but they may point you in the right direction
Very disappointing. I was expecting some detail on genealogy research. This book was not at all helpful in that regard.
If you have never done genealogy before and/or never done research into your Irish roots, this would be a good place to start. If, however, you are experienced, this does not offer much that is new.
I haven't finished reading it yet. So far, so good. Hoping to get ideas on how to find my ancestors. My great grandfather was John L. McMahon B 1822 County Clare, Ireland. He was a Roman Catholic. I don't know his parents names. He married Anne Quinlan in 1848 and migrated to Tottenham, Toronto, Canada in 1849 where they had 16 children. I've hit a brick wall and am looking to get ideas from this book to help me locate both grandparents ancestry.
This is elementary genealogy at the lightest touch. Nevertheless, Irish Genealogy Tips is worth a read if only for the few nuggets of real help in understanding research into Irish ancestry. I could have done without the humorous aside stories included by the author which are not all that enlightening, but in spite of this the book isn't taxing on one's patience. The reader can make short work of this book in an evening and feel glad of the journey.
I'm Irish by reverse-osmosis -- my grandsons have Irish blood in them from my daughter-in-law's side! Now that I've got the Irish heritage bug, I'm doing a little research to help fill out the ancestry forms for the kids. My paid-professional genealogy guru at the local library told me that this book has any number of great tips and tricks to trace one back to the good St. Patrick himself. Well maybe not exactly, but you get the idea. Could be an interesting paper chase, and, with the luck of the Irish, this book has been an excellent place to start!
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