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Foundations of Irish Genealogy 6: Bringing the Major Records Together

John Grenham
Jul 15, 2016
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Introduction
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Census Records
8m 36s
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GRO Records
15m 25s
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Church Records
11m 13s
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Property Records
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Griffith's Valuation
7m 33s
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Activity Challenge
3m 37s
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Conclusion
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It is one thing to know what the records are. It is another thing entirely to know how to fit those records together to extract as much genealogical information as possible. This talk concentrates on showing how the major sources interact with each other and how each can be used to find out more in the others, with heavy use of examples and case studies.

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John Grenham
John Grenham came to Irish professional genealogy in 1981, as one of the panel of Irish Genealogical Office researchers and later worked for Hibernian Research. As in-house researcher for the Genealogical Office in 1990-91, he was instrumental in
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