REVIEWS
IRELAND
TRACING YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS THROUGH LAND RECORDS
A GUIDE FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS
Chris Paton , Pen & Sword, 160 pages, £14.99
The problems with researching Irish families are often overstated, founded usually on the destruction of many records when the Public Record Office in Dublin was partly razed in June 1922. Also, many of the surviving historical documents have traditionally been hard to access. However, land and property records can be a rich source for the
