A Guide to Tracing Your Kildare Ancestors - Couverture souple

Kiely, Karel; Corrigan, Mario; Durney, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907990070 ISBN 13 : 9781907990076

Editeur : Flyleaf Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book sets out the records available for research on the history of County Kildare families. It includes where the relevant records can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect. For each type of record, it describes the background to their compilation, and the categories of people and data included. It also provides background on the social history of County Kildare and how this history has affected the keeping and survival of records.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Karel Kiely has run the County Kildare genealogy service for over twenty-three years. A native of Newbridge, Co. Kildare, she is a graduate of both Trinity College and Maynooth University, where she completed her M.A. in Local History in 1994. Her minor thesis on Naas Workhouse during the Famine reflects her interest in Irish social history and the Great Famine period. She has been the secretary of the Irish Family History Foundation since 2006 and the manager of its website, www.rootsireland.ie, since 2007. She has contributed articles to various publications over the years and currently edits Clann, the newsletter of the Irish Family History Foundation. Mario Corrigan is the Executive Librarian in charge of Kildare Collections and Research Services for Kildare Library & Arts Services and has professional qualifications in History and Library & Information Science from U.C.D. He has written, edited and compiled many books, booklets and articles relating to County Kildare including, Hearth and Home: A history of social housing in Kildare Town 1889-2009, with James Durney and Joseph Connelly which won the Nilsson Local Heritage Publishing Award in Listowel Writer's Week in 2013. Mario has taught introductory genealogy courses as well as delivering many presentations, talks and walks on Kildare history and heritage. In recent years he has been involved in digitisation of Kildare source material including, the Kildare Archaeological Journals (DVD, 2009) and The Kildare Observer newspaper, 1880-1935, (online, 2010). He has also written a series of children's fiction books. James Durney is an author/historian who works in the Local Studies and Genealogy Department, based in Newbridge Library. He is the author of twelve books on local and Irish history. James also works as a tour guide for the Kildare Town Heritage Company. He has written extensively on the history of his native County Kildare, and on Irish history in general. James has worked on several TV projects for RTE and TG4 as a researcher and two of his books have been the basis of TV documentaries - 'Mobs Mheirica' and 'War Stories - Korea.' His essay 'From defiance to defeat: the Curragh internees 1916-24,' won the 2011

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flyleaf Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907990070
• ISBN 13: 9781907990076
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Ryan Eoin
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible