Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records - coming soon!

I have spent the last three months working on my next book for Pen and Sword, entitled Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, and am delighted to have finally sent it through to the publisher today. The book is provisionally due to be published by the end of September, but I will obviously announce more as we get closer to the event.

It has been a lot of fun pulling it all together, but as with any book, it is astonishing what you learn as you go along, even for the subjects you throught that you knew a lot about. In this case, I knew that the records of the Land Commission in Ireland are inaccessible for the Republic, and accessible for Northern Ireland, but it has been a real eye opener to realise just what a tragedy this is for the south, and what an untouched gem they are for the north. The records for the south are locked away in a warehouse in Portlaoise for 'privacy concerns', which to be blunt, is a lot of utter nonsense. 

If you think the 1926 census should be the primary concern for the next big release in the Republic, I'd suggest that the Land Commission records should be an equal priority. Hopefully you'll understand why when the book is out!

And if you are from the north - the valuation revision books are certainly useful, but have you got all you can from the Belfast Gazette?!

All will (hopefully!) be divulged soon! 

Chris

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