Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors

Tracing Your Donegal Ancestors - New edition

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Supplied by Flyleaf Press.

Flyleaf Press has just published a new edition of this comprehensive guide to family history research in Donegal County. It describes how to best use the records available and where they can be accessed.

For each type of record it provides background information on how they were compiled and what information was contained, and on which categories of people. It also provides background on the social history of County Donegal and how this history has affected the keeping and survival of records.

Donegal families are an interesting mix of native Irish families and of Scots-Irish who came to the county from the 17th century. It experienced a high level of emigration both to North America and also to Scotland and North of England.

This new and greatly expanded edition sets out the range of Donegal genealogical sources available to the family history researcher. It devotes a chapter to each source type explaining what information each contains, and where each record can be accessed.

Common names in the county include:
O’Neill,
O’Donnell,
Bonner,
Barr,
Bradley,
Duffy,
Friel,
Gormley,
O’Kane,
Gallagher,
Harkin,
McBride,
McCafferty,
McDaid,
Patton,
Morrissey,
Ward,
Sweeney

It is also one of the counties which experienced a high level of emigration to North America and elsewhere.

By Helen Meehan & Godfrey Duffy.
ISBN: 978 0 9539974-9-7

£10.25