Introduction to Genealogy – Family History هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

This evening genealogy course will inform and familiarise participants on how to research their family history; what family documents, stories, photographs may assist in building a profile of the family and from what repositories and online sources information may be accessed.

Genealogical research extends to much more than the identification of dates of births/baptisms, marriages and deaths of particular ancestors. Placing events in context: for instance - what were the living and survival conditions of the family in the particular townland, village, or city at the particular period; what occupations did they have; from whom did they hold their land – in turn engages you in he history of your locality and in the contextualising of the family/ancestors details as they emerge.

Participants will be made familiar with the method involved in genealogical research – systematically working back, generation by generation, from a dependable piece of information or document to the retrieval of a new relevant document – from the known to the unknown. How to interrogate documents or records: are they primary sources (original), derivatives, copies, or transcriptions. How not to be dogmatic about spellings of such subjects as surnames, place names/townlands; unless a birth/ baptismal record exists that ages, entered on documents, such as census returns, death records, gravestone inscriptions, need to be considered as approximations.

• Introduction to Irish Genealogy: Preparation; how and where to begin your research project; methodology; family sources.; 19th century Administrative Divisions of Ireland; principal repositories in Ireland & their websites
• Brief history of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in Ireland; General Register Office (GRO) research facility in Dublin; General Register Office of Northern Ireland (GRONI); online databases.
• Census Returns: 1901 & 1911 censuses online will be examined and interrogated, surviving 19th century census fragments, substitutes & Census Search Forms will be discussed
• Church Records: Roman Catholic; Church of Ireland - the state or established church in Ireland up to 1870; main non-Conformists -Presbyterian and Methodist; brief historical background will be discussed; what records are available and where; how dependable and extensive are online church record databases
• Land and Property Records: published mid-19th century Griffith’s Primary Valuation & associated maps; Valuation Office surveyors’ notebooks; revision or cancelled books accessible in the Valuation Office Dublin or the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) Tithe Applotment Books, created between 1823 and 1837, identified the individual liable to pay tax in money terms to the clergy of the Church of Ireland, based on the value of the produce from the land; Tithe Defaulters. Ordnance Survey maps; OS placename notebooks
• Deeds; Estate Papers: tenant rent rolls.
• Registry of Deeds
• Wills and Testamentary Records:
• Trades, Occupations; Professions: Directories; Newspapers
• Cemetery records; Gravestone/Memorial Inscriptions
• Research Repositories; National Library; National Archives; Representative Church Body Library; County and City Libraries internet; websites; online services and databases
• Emigration/Immigration records , websites and databases
• Participants will be invited to make three separate guided visits (separate to class time) to the National Library of Ireland; National Archives of Ireland and Dublin City Library & Archive.