Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research; A Guide to the Genealogical Records, Methods and Sources in Ireland. Volume I Repositories and Records; Volume II Bibliography and Family Index

Evanston, IL: Margaret Dickson Falley, 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. Volume I xvi, 813, [5] pages and Volume II vii, [1], 354, [2] pages. Bibliography. Index. This rare two volume set, in slipcase, was privately printed at the Shenandoah Published House, Strasburg, Virginia. Slipcase has some wear and soiling. Cover of Volume II has some soiling. Otherwise the two volumes are in very good condition.The author was a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. She donated her collection of books on Irish and American genealogy in 1980 to the Northwester University Library. In her study of family history and genealogy she acquired over 3,000 volumes, published in both the United States and the British Isles. The collection includes more than 1600 American reference books, 1200 Irish reference books, and nearly 200 volumes from other parts of the United Kingdom, as well as 170 microfilm reels of parish records, deeds, and emigration passenger lists from Irish sources. Mrs. Falley was the author of a two-volume guide to genealogical study, which suggests methods of research and outlines the nature of records and sources for the American student of Irish and Scotch Irish family history. This is the best book on Irish and Scotch-Irish genealogy ever published. The first volume is a guide to preliminary research. It describes genealogical collections and indexes in all the major Irish repositories and the published indexes, catalogues, and printed sources available in Ireland and the United States. The various chapters detail the types of records that exist and where, the nature and extent of the holdings, dates of coverage, and the existence of indexes to wills and probates, birth, marriage and burial records, land, census and tax records, and church and parish records. Volume Two is a bibliography of family histories, pedigrees, and source materials published in books and periodicals. It covers such printed works as parish, town and county histories, church records, and family histories. It also has a list of over 1,400 manuscript family histories deposited in public record offices, a survey of the microfilm holdings of various American and Irish institutions, inventories of other manuscript collections, and an index of family history articles appearing in over twenty periodicals.