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[[Image:1024px-Historic Irish Cemetery.jpg|thumb|right|350x250px]]View the [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/getting-started-in-irish-genealogy/594 "Getting Started in Irish Genealogy"] online tutorial from FamilySearch.<br> | [[Image:1024px-Historic Irish Cemetery.jpg|thumb|right|350x250px|1024px-Historic Irish Cemetery.jpg]]View the [https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/getting-started-in-irish-genealogy/594 "Getting Started in Irish Genealogy"] online tutorial from FamilySearch.<br> | ||
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=== Ireland, How to Find a Place Name === | === Ireland, How to Find a Place Name === | ||
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Introduction Events in the lives of your ancestors, including births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, may have been officially recorded at the time they took place. In many cases, you need to know exactly where an event took place in order to find a record of it. If you don't know the place, you may be able to find that information in sources readily available to you. [[Ireland Record Selection Table|Ireland Record Selection Table]] which type of Irish records to search. <br> | <br> Introduction Events in the lives of your ancestors, including births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths, may have been officially recorded at the time they took place. In many cases, you need to know exactly where an event took place in order to find a record of it. If you don't know the place, you may be able to find that information in sources readily available to you. [[Ireland Record Selection Table|Ireland Record Selection Table]] which type of Irish records to search. <br> | ||
==== What You Are Looking For ==== | ==== What You Are Looking For ==== | ||
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[[Record Useful Information|Write the information you find on pedigree charts]] and family group record forms. If you need forms, you may print them from your computer now, or you can order a supply online. You can also purchase a software program for your home computer that helps you organize your genealogy and allows you to print out these forms. Programs are available at most computer software stores. One program, [https://familysearch.org/products Personal Ancestral File], may be downloaded online. It may also be purchased on CD-Rom. Not all of the information you collect will fit on pedigree charts and family group record forms. See Tip 1. <br> | [[Record Useful Information|Write the information you find on pedigree charts]] and family group record forms. If you need forms, you may print them from your computer now, or you can order a supply online. You can also purchase a software program for your home computer that helps you organize your genealogy and allows you to print out these forms. Programs are available at most computer software stores. One program, [https://familysearch.org/products Personal Ancestral File], may be downloaded online. It may also be purchased on CD-Rom. Not all of the information you collect will fit on pedigree charts and family group record forms. See Tip 1. <br> | ||
====Step 3. [[Decide What You Want to Learn|Decide on a research goal]]==== | |||
==== Step 3. [[Decide What You Want to Learn|Decide on a research goal]] ==== | |||
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Once you have gathered information and recorded it on forms and in notes, you can see what information you have and what is missing. You may have dates without places to go with them. Even when a place is identified, you should verify that it is correct. Determine a place name, such as a place of birth, that you would like to find or verify. This is your research goal.<br> | Once you have gathered information and recorded it on forms and in notes, you can see what information you have and what is missing. You may have dates without places to go with them. Even when a place is identified, you should verify that it is correct. Determine a place name, such as a place of birth, that you would like to find or verify. This is your research goal.<br> | ||
==== Step 4 [[Select Records to Search|Look for compiled research sources]] ==== | |||
<br> | ==== Step 4 [[Select Records to Search|Look for compiled research sources]] ==== | ||
[[Organize Your Records|After reviewing home and family sources]] and selecting a research goal, look for research on your family compiled by others. Someone else may have already identified places where the events in the lives of your ancestors occurred. [[Select Records to Search|Compiled research]] may be found in private and public collections of individuals, libraries, and societies, as well as on the Internet. For more information about finding [[Ireland Record Selection Table|compiled research sources]], see [[A Checklist of Compiled Sources and Where to Find Them|How to Find Compiled Sources]]. <br> | |||
==== Step 5 Analyze what you know about your ancestor ==== | <br> [[Organize Your Records|After reviewing home and family sources]] and selecting a research goal, look for research on your family compiled by others. Someone else may have already identified places where the events in the lives of your ancestors occurred. [[Select Records to Search|Compiled research]] may be found in private and public collections of individuals, libraries, and societies, as well as on the Internet. For more information about finding [[Ireland Record Selection Table|compiled research sources]], see [[A Checklist of Compiled Sources and Where to Find Them|How to Find Compiled Sources]]. <br> | ||
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If you are still missing the name of the place where an event in your ancestor's life occurred, you can [[Select Specific Records#Helpful_Guessing_Skills|analyze the facts you do know to help you]] determine where to look for the missing information. See Tip 2.<br> | ==== Step 5 Analyze what you know about your ancestor ==== | ||
==== Step 6 [[Obtain the Records|Look for indexes]] ==== | |||
<br> | <br> If you are still missing the name of the place where an event in your ancestor's life occurred, you can [[Select Specific Records#Helpful_Guessing_Skills|analyze the facts you do know to help you]] determine where to look for the missing information. See Tip 2.<br> | ||
Look for indexes to records with broad coverage for Ireland or for indexes to records for the specific county where your ancestor lived. Surname indexes to collections of records may provide the names of places where people of your surname lived. You can then look for your ancestor in records of those places. <br> Indexed records may include:<br> •Civil registration records.<br> •Census records.<br> •Church records.<br> •Burial or cemetery records.<br> •Probate records.<br> •Tax records.<br> •Land records.<br> Indexes are available at libraries with genealogical collections, such as the Family History Library.<br> Indexes may also be available on Internet web sites. Some indexes are created by family history societies, private groups or individuals and may be available for purchase from them. For more information on finding indexes, see Where to Find It.<br> Ireland, [[Family History Library Catalog Place-name Search|How to Find a Place Name]]<br> Research Guidance<br> Version of Data: 08/20/01<br>3<br> | |||
==== Step 6 [[Obtain the Records|Look for indexes]] ==== | |||
<br> Look for indexes to records with broad coverage for Ireland or for indexes to records for the specific county where your ancestor lived. Surname indexes to collections of records may provide the names of places where people of your surname lived. You can then look for your ancestor in records of those places. <br> Indexed records may include:<br> •Civil registration records.<br> •Census records.<br> •Church records.<br> •Burial or cemetery records.<br> •Probate records.<br> •Tax records.<br> •Land records.<br> Indexes are available at libraries with genealogical collections, such as the Family History Library.<br> Indexes may also be available on Internet web sites. Some indexes are created by family history societies, private groups or individuals and may be available for purchase from them. For more information on finding indexes, see Where to Find It.<br> Ireland, [[Family History Library Catalog Place-name Search|How to Find a Place Name]]<br> Research Guidance<br> Version of Data: 08/20/01<br>3<br> | |||
==== Step 7[[Describe the Records on a Research Log|Cite your sources]] ==== <br> | ==== Step 7[[Describe the Records on a Research Log|Cite your sources]] ==== <br> | ||