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phpid=92; $34.95 plus $4.90 p&h; Visa and MC
accepted on the website; library purchase orders
also accepted at the website. This volume is also
produced in a hardbound edition at $65—see the
website for details and ordering. There is a town
index at the website—just type the name of your
town in the search engine to find its location.
Volume 23 of the German Map Guide series was
published in November of 2008. Written in English
by Kevan Hansen, the volume is an index to all the
towns found in Bavaria I-IX, as well as those listed in
the Pfalz section German Map Guide Volume 13. The
book gives the name of the town, and the Bavarian
province in which the town is found, as well as the
book and page number(s) where data on that town
can be located. This is the 23rd of a series of 45 volumes,
covering all of Germany. The production of the
series is still ongoing. Note that Bavaria is covered in
its entirety in nine volumes, plus this index that also
covers the Pfalz, found in Rhineland III, Volume 13.
Even the smallest places are listed in this index and
series—some with as little population as one person!
These places are as of about 1870. If the place existed
prior to that date, it will most likely be listed. If the
place was named after that date, the chances drop. Researched
and compiled from the text and footnotes of
many old gazetteers and maps, this volume is the most
complete Bavarian gazetteer ever compiled, and can
act as a stand-alone gazetteer of Bavaria, with or without
the rest of the German Map Guide series. Volumes
covering Hessen, Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein,
Oldenburg, Württemberg, Hessen-Nassau, Rhineland,
and Bavaria are now complete. See the description for
volume 14 above, as well as the website, www.familyrootspublishing.com,
for more details on the series.
Ireland
Irish Gravestone Inscriptions—
A Guide to Sources in Ulster
Edited by William O’Kane
& Eoin Kerr; Originally published
in 1999; Reprinted 2008;
5.5x8.5; 57 pp; softbound.
Order from the publisher
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;
or www.genealogical.com;
CF4309 ISBN: 9780806316161;
$12.50 plus $4.00 p&h.
Heritage World of County
Tyrone, Northern Ireland, has
surveyed the gravestone inscriptions for almost 900
cemeteries across the northern part of Ireland. The
great majority of these cemeteries are located in Northern
Ireland, although the figure includes a substantial
number from two other Ulster counties, Donegal and
Monaghan, as well as several from County Louth.
The survey encompasses cemeteries of all religious
denominations as well as those administered by local
district and borough councils. In each case, there
is an exact transcript of all gravestone inscriptions,
together with a simple plan of the cemetery.
Information pertaining to these cemeteries can
be acquired from Heritage World either as an index,
giving county, parish, person, cemetery name, date
of death, and denomination, or as a full gravestone
inscription. These details can be supplied for any
name in a particular cemetery, parish, or county.
This book lists all cemeteries surveyed to date by
Heritage World. Arranged by county, all 900 cemeteries
are listed by the civil parish in which they are
located, together with their religious denomination.
In brief, then, this is a guide to the 900 cemeteries
surveyed in the nine counties of Antrim, Armagh,
Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan,
and Tyrone, with pointers for the researcher
to follow for acquiring full details of individual
gravestone inscriptions.
Pocket Guide to Irish
Genealogy—Third Edition
By Brian Mitchell; 2008; 7x10;
83 pp; softbound. Order from
the publisher at: Clearfield
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,
MD 21211; or www.
genealogical.com; CF9240
ISBN: 9780806353852; $16.95
plus $4.00 p&h.
The third edition of Brian
Mitchell’s Pocket Guide to Irish
Genealogy is, page for page,
perhaps the best book on genealogical research in
Ireland ever written.
By skillfully blending case studies, maps, charts,
and his own mastery of the subject, Mitchell has
managed to convey the basics of Irish genealogical
research in scarcely 80 pages. Following introductory
chapters on the background of research on the
American side, the author describes the nature and
uses of all significant record sources in Ireland, including
but not limited to civil and parish registers,
gravestone inscriptions, wills, the Griffith’s Valuation,
tithe books, the 1901 and 1911 censuses, newspapers,
hearth money rolls, the registry of deeds, estate
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