Colleen Murray

In January, store shelves that were filled with decorations become filled with plastic storage containers, encouraging us to get organized in the new year. Genealogy is no different. Some genealogists have begun a Genealogy Do-Over with the start of a new year. Personally, I made time this holiday to read Drew Smith’s Organize your Genealogy: Strategies and solutions for every researcher.[1] This is a new book- published just last year, and I had not initially planned to re

Researching Armagh Ancestors: A practical guide for the family and local historian. By Ian Maxwell. Published by Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2000. Paperback, £11.99 from the publisher, ISBN 978-1-901905-89-5. 180 pages, index and 7 appendices: (Sample 17th century records, Repositories, Administrative Divisions, List of unofficial placenames, Table of archival references for tithe and valuation records, Map of Civil Parishes, and map of Roman Catholic Parishes.) We