Purchase a
ticket for £1 and then the attendant will take you down stairs to where the Calenders are kept. The calenders begin in 1858 and give details such as Name, address, marital status of the deceased, the dates of death and probate, names and addresses of the executers and the value of the assets of the deceased. You
will then be able to look through the books to find your ansestor. Write down the details. You then write
to the National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin 8 with the correct amount of money and you'll receive a copy of your will in
the post. Cost is listed in the Probate office There are two kinds of copies.A.
A certified copy or B. An uncertified copy.
BEARA RESEARCH SERVICES: Riobard O Dwyer,
Eyeries, Castletownbere, Co. Cork.
riobardodwyer@eircom.net . Records of
the Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork(South-West). The Parishes are: Adrigole, Allihies
(including Dursey Island), Bere Island, Castletownbere, Eyeries, and the
combined Parish of Glengarriff, Co. Cork/Bonane, Co. Kerry(straddling the
border). See also: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/berehave.htm and
http://www.swiftsite.com/odwyer/
LDS site for UKThis site has an order form which you can use.Also available is Vital Records Index British Isles. This is a collection of five disks which
contains 5 million births, christenings, and marriages taken from a partial
collection of records in the British Isles dating from 1538 to 1881
Did you know that the Irish indexes to births/marriages
are available in an L.D.S. Family History Centre near you
L.D.S. Family History Centre
Sarsfield's Road,
Wilton,
Cork City
Tel. 021 4874858.
Opening times are as follows :- Wednesday 7-9pm but there may
be changes ring before attending. Wendy Quirke looks after it.
1901 census for Cork is available at
For those of you who have had ancestors in Shipping the address below may help you find out a little more.
Things to keep in mind when researching :-
Have you ever thought of looking at newspapers for background information
for your family histories. Sometimes you might find an obituary or and article
written about a historical event eg. The sinking of a ship. Another source for
articles such as these are the Journals of the Cork Historical and Archealogical
Society. The Cork City Library has copies of the Journal and a good selection of local mewspapers.
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