Your Irish Ancestors: A Guide for the Family Historian by Ian Maxwell

Your Irish Ancestors: A Guide for the Family Historian by Ian Maxwell

Your Irish Ancestors provides an entertaining insight into everyday life in Ireland during the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell's highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth century census returns and school registers will be familiar to researchers, but others have been traditionally overlooked by all but the most experienced genealogists. Each chapter takes the form of a detailed social history showing how the lives of our ancestors changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the records that have survived, and it is in this broad historical approach that Ian Maxwell's work stands out from other guides to Irish genealogy. Your Irish Ancestors is more than just a technical 'how-to-do it' book, for it will help family historians put their ancestral research in historical perspective, giving them a better understanding of the world in which their ancestors lived.

Ian Maxwell is one of a handful of people who is a Level 3 Combat and Tactical Tracking Instructor. He has tracked people in most countries in the world and has spent time tracking with the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. special forces. He has trained British police officers, New Mexico state troopers, Canadian Forces, Kenyan and Tanzanian armed rangers, and members of special forces from around the world. He has also provided information for forensic psychologists and is a registered expert witness. Ian has presented several television programs on tracking, including his own series Max's Big Tracks and Big Cat Track.

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ISBN 13	9781844157891
ISBN 10	184415789X
Title	Your Irish Ancestors: A Guide for the Family Historian
Author	Ian Maxwell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2008-12-20
Number of pages	192
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