A Guide to Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors - Softcover

Duffy, Godfrey H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095084666X ISBN 13: 9780950846668

Publisher: Flyleaf Press, 1995

Synopsis

The records available for family research are described in detail together with their relevance and where they can be found. A social history of Donegal is also provided to show its importance in the keeping and survival of these records.

About this title

Review:

"..a handy guide setting out what is available and where to find it' -- Ireland of the Welcomes 1997

'..a book which lives up to its title. It is a thorough guide to resources available to researchers of Donegal'

-- Connecticut Nutmegger

'This excellent little guide describes in detail church records, as well as gravestone inscriptions, censuses and other lists, civil vital records, probate and land records, newspapers, directories, school records and compiled family histories'

-- NY Genealogical & Biographical Record

About the Author:

Helen Meehan (nee Montgomery) was born in Co. Donegal and graduated as a Primary School Teacher in 1957. She retired in 1998 and is an active member, and current President, of the Donegal Historical Society, which she joined in 1960. She has been a regular speaker at the Society's Seminars and to other groups She has published in The Donegal Annual, Bealoideas (University College Dublin), Due North - Journal of the Federation of Ulster Local Studies (Belfast), Journal of Clan Montgomery in the USA, The Spark (Enniskillen) as well as many local history productions. In 2005 Helen published her 728 page 'Inver Parish in History'. Godfrey Duffy is a writer and lecturer on Irish family history. He lives in Newcastle, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Flyleaf Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 095084666X
• ISBN 13: 9780950846668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Henderson Cathy