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Learn how to explore your West Cork genealogy in this series of podcasts from Skibbereen Heritage Centre. Listen to the Centre’s in-house genealogist, Margaret Murphy, as she shares her 20-years’ plus experience of carrying out such research with Skibbereen Heritage Centre’s manager and curator, Terri Kearney.
Episode 1 : Starting Off -The Censuses of 1901/11
In this episode, these friends and colleagues explore how to start researching using the 1910 and 1911 censuses as genealogical sources, while also exploring the broader societal context of what these records reveal. Margaret brings Terri’s ancestry into the 19th century and they come across a few surprises along the way.
Websites referenced in this episode:
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Episode Two: Civil and Church Records
In this episode, Margaret discusses what civil records are, where they are available and the dates covered as well as discussing the common pitfalls encountered when utilising this data.
She then goes on to explore the RC Church records as a genealogical source and, again, shares her knowledge on how best to carry out a search as well as giving a societal context to all of these records.
Websites referenced within the podcast:
www.irishgenealogy.ie (free site)
www.rootsireland.ie (pay site)
www.ancestry.com (pay site)
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Episode Three: The Griffith’s Valuation
In this episode Margaret discusses the background to the Griffith’s Valuation and what the house, field & tenure books tell us, and also how to interpret these records alongside the associated maps.
Websites referenced within the podcast:
www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie house, field & tenure books – (free site)
www.askaboutireland.ie – Field books & maps (free site)
www.findmypast.ie – Field books & maps (Pay Site)
www.failteromhat.com – transcribed field books (free site)
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Episode Four: The Tithe Applotments
Margaret and Terri discuss the background to the Tithe placed on land in the 1823s and examine the outcome of this tax as well as utilising these records for genealogy information.
Margaret goes on to discuss the value of other miscellaneous land records from around that period – the local Wrixon-Becher Estate records, the Landed Estates website, the Register of Deeds and the Flax Rolls – as genealogical sources.
Tithe Applotment Books
www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie Full Tithe list for each county – (free site)
www.askaboutireland.ie – Tithe Defaulters list only (free site)
www.findmypast.ie – Tithe Defaulters list only (Pay Site)
Flax Growers list 1796
www.failteromhat.com (free site)
www.ancestry.co.uk ( pay site)
Land Estate Records -(named differently on sites)
www.ancestry.co.uk – Land Estate Court Rentals (1850 – 1885) –(pay site)
www.ancestry.com – Encumbered Estate Records (1850 – 1885) (pay site)
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Episode Five: Miscellaneous Sources
This episode covers burial, school, crime and emigration records as well as maps, directories and occupational sources as sources of genealogical information.
Websites referenced in this podcast:
www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library
www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/libraries/local-studies
www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/locations/city-library/reference/
https://webapps.geohive.ie/mapviewer/index.html
https://www.nationalarchives.ie/
http://www.irishnewspaperarchives.ie
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
http://www.archives.gov/research/lighthouses
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/coastguard-records
http://www.coastguardsofyesteryear.org/infusions/records_system/recordsdb.php
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