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.
Websites mentioned in this podcast:
www.skibbheritage.com (http://www.skibbheritage.com)
www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library (http://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library)
www.findmypast.ie (http://www.findmypast.ie)
www.corkpastandpresent.ie (http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie)
www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/libraries/local-studies (http://www.corkcoco.ie/en/resident/libraries/local-studies)
www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/locations/city-library/reference/ (http://www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/locations/city-library/reference/)
https://webapps.geohive.ie/mapviewer/index.html (https://webapps.geohive.ie/mapviewer/index.html)
https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8 (https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8)
https://corkarchives.ie/ (https://corkarchives.ie/)
https://www.nationalarchives.ie/ (https://www.nationalarchives.ie/)
www.rootsireland.ie (http://www.rootsireland.ie)
www.historicgraves.ie (http://www.historicgraves.ie)
www.ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com)
www.familysearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org)
http://www.irishnewspaperarchives.ie
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
http://www.newspapers.com/
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-soldiers-of-the-first-world-war
http://www.uk.forceswarrecords.com/
http://www.fold3.com/
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
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/merchant-seamen-serving-since-1918
1 Jan 2024
West Cork Genealogy - the Tithe Applotments & Other Land Records
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 (http://www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/) -
Full Tithe list for each county (Free)
www.failteromhat.com (http://www.failteromhat.com/) - Tithe Defaulters
list only (Free)
www.findmypast.ie (http://www.findmypast.ie/) - Tithe Defaulters list
only (Pay site)
Flax Growers list 1796
www.failteromhat.com (http://www.failteromhat.com/) (Free)
https://www.ancestry.co.uk (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/) (Pay site)
Land Estate Records - named differently on sites below
both pay sites
www.ancestry.co.uk (http://www.ancestry.co.uk/) - Land Estate Court
Rentals (1850 - 1885)
www.ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/) - Encumbered
Estate Records (1850 - 1885)
Creagh Estate Records
https://skibbheritage.com/genealogy-using-tenant-records/
30 Dec 2023
West Cork Genealogy - The Griffith's Valuation
In this episode, Margaret discusses the background to the Griffith’s Valuation and what the house, field and tenure
books tell us as genealogical sources and how best to interpret them alongside the associated maps, as well as giving the societal context to all of these records.
Websites mentioned in the podcast:
www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie (http://www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/)
- House, Field and Tenure Books ( Free)
www.askaboutireland.ie (http://www.askaboutireland.ie/) -
Field Book lists and maps ( Free)
www.findmypast.ie (http://www.findmypast.ie/) - Field Book lists and
associated maps ( Pay Site)
www.failteromhat.com (http://www.failteromhat.com/) -
a transcribed list of Field Books only
28 Dec 2023
West Cork Genealogy - Civil & 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 mentioned in the podcast:
www.irishgenealogy.ie (http://www.irishgenealogy.ie) (free site)
https://www.rootsireland.ie (https://www.rootsireland.ie)
(free site)
www.ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) (pay
site)
24 Dec 2023
West Cork Genealogy - The Census Records
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.
In this episode,these friends and colleagues explore how to start researching using the 1901 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 mentioned in this episode:
www.skibbheritage.com
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
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