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In this, the fully updated second edition of his best-selling guide to researching Irish history using the internet, Chris Paton shows the extraordinary variety of sources that can now be accessed online. Although Ireland has lost many records that would have been of great interest to family historians, he demonstrates that a great deal of information survived and is now easily available to the researcher.Thanks to the pioneering efforts of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, the National Archives of Ireland, organizations such as FindmyPast Ireland, Ancestry.co.uk and RootsIreland and the volunteer genealogical community, an ever-increasing range of Ireland’s historical resources are accessible from afar.As well as exploring the various categories of records that the family historian can turn to, Chris Paton illustrates their use with fascinating case studies.
About the Author
Originally from Northern Ireland, Chris Paton is a genealogist and writer based today in Ayrshire, Scotland, where he runs the Scotland's Greatest Story research service (www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk) . As well as contributing to many of the UK's best known family history magazines, he also writes for his own Scottish GENES news blog (www.scottishgenes.blogspot.com) , and regularly gives talks to family history societies across Scotland, the UK and worldwide.
