Searching Irish Records – What We Found

DURATION: 31 MINUTES.

In this module we follow Jayne McGarvey’s advice and search through the Irish records for the Dolphin family using ancestry.com

• Click on the play button in the video below to start the lesson.
• You can also click on the 4 arrows below the video to make it as large as possible for viewing.

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

• Summarising the Irish record search advice supplied by Jayne
• We search Irish records and confirm some existing facts – and make surprising discoveries along the way
• Using Irish-based record sites outside ancestry.com
• Final update of our Dolphin family tree using newly-discovered facts and citations

ANCESTRY.COM TREES FOR THIS LESSON:

NOTE: The ancestry.com trees below are available only to current ancestry.com members. However, you do not need these trees to follow the training above – we just include them as a bonus.

• The Dolphin family tree we started our Irish Record research with can be found here.
• The Dolphin family tree we finished with can be found here.

FURTHER REFERENCES AND RESOURCES FOR THIS LESSON:

• Stage 4 of the Research Roadmap – Researching Your Ancestor in Ireland – is available here.
• Our Researching Irish Record Collections lesson is available here (from the Research Roadmap).
• Go here to ask Jayne McGarvey a question in the forum.
• Irishgenealogy.ie is a free-to-access repository for Irish civil records.
• Townlands.ie is a useful site to examine specific Irish townland information
• Family History Learning Hub from ancestry.com

Would you like to ask questions about this course content? Click here to discuss it in the forum.