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.
The episodes cover how best to mine census, civil, church, and land ownership records as well as other miscellaneous sources for genealogical data, while also giving the societal context for each of these records.
Please go to www.skibbheritage.com for further information.
This episode covers burial, school, crime and emigration
records as well as maps, directories and occupational sources as sources of genealogical information.
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Published 01/19/24
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...
Published 01/01/24