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[[Image:Legananny Dolman, County Down, Ireland.jpg|thumb|right| | [[Image:Legananny Dolman, County Down, Ireland.jpg|thumb|right|331x248px]]Efficient family research requires an understanding of the historical events that affected your ancestors and the records about them. Learning about wars, laws, migrations, settlement patterns, local events, and economic or religious trends may help you understand family movements. These events may also direct you to records, such as settlement certificates or military records, that mention your family. Learning about the conditions in which your ancestors lived and the events that influenced their lives will also help you understand your ancestors as human beings. | ||
Events in Irish history that may have influenced your ancestors and the records about them include the following: | Events in Irish history that may have influenced your ancestors and the records about them include the following: | ||
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'''1922''' Irish Civil War. Irregulars of the Irish Republican Army opposed to the 1922 treaty occupied the Four Courts building where many Irish records were housed. The building was burned and many records destroyed. | '''1922''' Irish Civil War. Irregulars of the Irish Republican Army opposed to the 1922 treaty occupied the Four Courts building where many Irish records were housed. The building was burned and many records destroyed. | ||
For key dates relating to church records, see | For key dates relating to church records, see [[Ireland Church History]]. For dates and records of other wars involving the Irish, see [[England]]. To find out when the various British rulers reigned, see: | ||
Cheney, C. R., ed. ''Handbook of Dates.'' 1945. Reprint. London, England: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1955. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=942+C4rg book Ref 942 C4rg No. 4.]) | Cheney, C. R., ed. ''Handbook of Dates.'' 1945. Reprint. London, England: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1955. (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=942+C4rg book Ref 942 C4rg No. 4.]) | ||