This is the best book on Irish genealogy ever published. The first volume is a guide topreliminary research. It describes genealogical collections and indexes in all the major Irish repositories and the published indexes, catalogues, and printed sources available in Ireland and the United States. The various chapters detail the types of records that exist and where, the nature and ...
Family historians are constantly confronted with records using nicknames. The researcher who does not know that Patsy was commonly used for Martha, Sandy for Alexander, Peter for Patrick? You may be losing records! This book lists not only nicknames for males and females, but also includes the American equivalent of Dutch/Frisian names, names used for both males and females, and superscripted ...
A new Rona Parish mystery Rona Parish's last assignment, a series of articles on the town of Buckford, is almost complete, when a young woman approaches her with a request to help her trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused ? not least because she discovers that the woman's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier.