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A guide to tracing your Donegal ancestors Helen Meehan and Godfrey Duffy
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Reading Room REF CS 497 .D66 D84 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meehan, Helen, 1937- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Donegal (Ireland : County)--Genealogy.
- Donegal (Ireland : County).
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Donegal ancestors
- Tracing your Donegal ancestors
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, Ireland : Flyleaf Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Donegal has fewer genealogical records than most Irish counties. Donegal families are a mixture of native Gaelic families and Scots-Irish families who settled in the county from the 17th century onward. The records are both diverse in nature, and also widely scattered. Although the major sources are those within the Republic of Ireland, in which Donegal is situated, there are also some records in Belfast repositories which is part of the United Kingdom administration. This book sets out the records available, and where they can be accessed.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- How to use this book
- Administrative divisions and guides
- Civil registration
- Census and census substitutes
- Church records
- Land and estate records
- Gravestone inscriptions
- Wills and administrations
- Commercial and social directories
- Newspapers
- Education records
- Emigration records
- Surnames and family histories.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-144) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9781907990229
- 1907990224
- OCLC:
- 909087661
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