Book Reviews

Paperback 162pp Price Not Stated No ISBN Reference Published by Federation of Local History Societies www.localhistory.ie Local history can be a useful aid in our detective work into the lives of our forebears. The latest Annual Journal of the Federation of Local History Societies is a case in point. While

Paperback and eBook 240pp Price US $26.99; CAN €33.99 (€28.00) Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-4403-4880-8 ISBN-10: 1-4403-4880-4 By Claire Santry Published by Family Tree Books, Cincinnati, Ohio www:shopfamilytree.com Claire Santry is a well-known figure in Irish genealogy circles. She hosts the www.irishgenealogynews.com blog and @Irish_Genealogy twitter account. Her website www.irish- genealogy-toolkit.com

Finding your Ancestors in Kerry Kay Caball ISBN 978-1-907990-08-3 €13.00 Pages 160 Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin www.flyleaf.ie This is another family history research guide in the excellent series of tracing your county ancestors.  The author’s website www.mykerryancestors.com tells us that Kay Caball is a member of the Maloney family of Listowel and

Tom Burnell Editor Hardcopy and eBook     Pages 252      Cost £19.99 ISBN 978 1 47382 129 0 Tom Burnell, Irish Army veteran of the ‘Troubles’ and historian had edited this book of dispatches from the front for the months of August–December 1914 as the Great War began. Twenty-Seven Newspapers were consulted

David C A Wilkins Paperback     Published privately in the UK with DVD   Pages 283 ISBN 978-0-9562080-0-2 David C A Wilkins is based in Stockport, Cheshire, UK and is a member of the Irish Family History Society.  His family heritage is no longer forgotten with this most detailed and well researched

By Dan Waddell Hard Cover, Paper Back and eBook. ISBN 978 1 84990 824 5 Pages 191 Cost £9.99 Publisher  BBC Books,  Random House Group, 2014 This book is the essential pocket guide to tracing your family history.  2014 is the 10th anniversary of the celebrity UK TV program about

First published 2003 Paperback and eBook 160 pages.  Cost €13 ISBN 978-1-90799006-9 By Margaret Franklin Published by Flyleaf Press Dublin (www.flyleaf.ie) Ten years after its first publication this book has been updated and is testimony to Limerick’s unique history.   The second edition is easier to read as the text is

Paperback and eBook   362 pages Cost £16.99 ISBN 9-781-4729-0293-1 By David Annal and Peter Christian Published by Bloomsbury London First published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, now fully revised and updated to take into account new census data that has been published

“If you didn’t write it down and tell somebody about it, it didn’t happen” Guy Cosmolmagno S.J. Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory The author, Colin Thom, obviously subscribes to this dictum, as it has taken thirty five years, on and off, to write his family history.  It was

Paperback, 224 pp Price Stg £10 (approx. €12) ISBN 978 0 9552399 7 7 By R. Blatchford & E. Blatchford. Published by Robert Blatchford Publishing Ltd, York, UK www.genealogical.co.uk Following on the success of The Irish Family and Local History Handbook, the publishers launched the second edition at the October 2012