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Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors, The essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800, Second Edition; By William J. Roulston; Published by The Ulster Historical Foundation - Belfast; 2018; 606+xxxiii pp; 6x9; ISBN: 978-1-909556-65-2; Item #: UHF01

When the first edition of this book appeared in 2005 it was quickly recognized as an essential work of reference for family historians searching for Ulster ancestors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At more than twice the size of the original, this edition is a massively expanded version of the first volume. It opens up many avenues for research, drawing attention to the riches of archives inside and outside of the island of Ireland, demonstrating the benefit of often undervalued, yet accessible sources which can help document your ancestors back to the 1600s.

This new edition includes additional information on church records and landed estate papers, as well as new chapters looking at records relating to law and order, emigration, business and occupations, diaries and journals, and clubs and societies. The extensive appendices to the book include a summary listing of the sources available from this period for every parish in the historic nine counties of Ulster (including a listing of surviving pre-1800 church records), and a detailed description of around 350 landed estate collections.

Whether Your ancestors are of English, German, Scottish or Gaelic Irish background, whether their religious affiliation was Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic or other, whether they were farmers, merchants, or laborers, this volume will be of enormous value to you in your quest to find our more about your Ulster roots.

The following is from the Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Getting Started with research; Background Reading; Contemporary descriptive accounts; The Internet; Surnames; Place-names and land divisions; Archives and libraries on the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland); Repositories in Britain (England and Wales, Scotland).
• Church Records: The Church of Ireland (Church of Ireland registers, Vestry minute books, Information on Anglican clergyman, Tithe records, Records of bishops and diocesan archives); The Presbyterian Churches (The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, The Secession Presbyterian Church, The Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church, The Reformed Presbyterian [Covenanter] Church); the Methodist Church; The Moravian Church; The Religious Society of Friends; The Roman Catholic Church; Huguenots.
• Gravestone Inscriptions: Graveyards; The place of burial; Gravestones; Gravestone decoration; Locating inscriptions.
• Seventeenths-century records: Pre-Planation records (Fiants of Tudor sovereigns); Records relating to the Planation period, 1610-40 (Books on the Ulster Plantation, Plantation surveys, R.J. Hunter Papers, Ulster port books, Ulster roll of goal delivery, Irish statute of staple records, Calendars of patent rolls, Denization and naturalisation records, Calendars of state papers, Ulster inquisitions, Summonister rolls, Muster rolls, The Great Parchment Book); Records relating to the 1641 rising and its aftermath (The 1641 depositions, Muster rolls); Records relating to the Cromwellian and Restoration land settlements (The proposed transplantation of Scots from Ulster, The Civil Survey, Books of Survey and distribution, Land grants, Court of Claims); Name lists from c. 1160 to c. 1690 ('1659 Census,' Poll books, Hearth money books, subsidy rolls, Excommunication in Derry diocese, Francisan petition lists, Laggan presbytery representatives, Collectors' accounts); Records from the period of the Williamite War (Jacobite corporations, Names of those attainted by James II, Protestant refugees from Ireland, Participants in the war, Williamite land settlement).
• Eighteenth-century records: 'Census substitutes' ('A view of the archbishopric of Armagh" 1703, Lists of the nobility and gentry in each county c. 1730, Religious census of Cary barony - County Antrim 1734, 'Census of Protestant householders' 1740; The religious census of 1766, Hearts of Steel memorials 1771-2, The flaxseed premiums of 1796); Records arising from the Penal Laws (Convert Rolls, Catholic Qualification Rolls, Petitions of Protestant Dissenters 1775); Records relating to the United Irishmen and 1798 Rebellion (Records in the National Archives of Ireland, Records in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Records in the National Library of Ireland, Catholics departing from Ulster in 1795-6, Published studies of the United Irishmen and 1798 Rebellion); Post Rebellion records (Petitions relating to the Act of Union 1799-1800, Emmet's Rebellion of 1803, The agricultural census of 1803).
• Landed Estate Records: Landed estates in Ulster; Locating estate papers; Identifying the relevant estate; The range of records (Leases, Lease books, Rentals, Maps, Surveys and valuations, Correspondence, Accounts, Manor court records); Undertenants and cottiers; Other sources of information on landed estates.
• The Registry of Deeds: The creation of the Registry of Deeds; The registration process, The indexes, The range of documents registered, The value of research in the Registry of Deeds.
• Wills and testamentary papers: The administration of testamentary matters; Indexes to testamentary records; The availability of testamentary records; The information in a will.
• Records relating to government and the legal system: Records of the Irish Parliament; Grand jury records; Corporation records; Records relating to the legal system.
• Parliamentary election records: The electorate; Election records; Surviving election records.
• Military records: The regular army; the militia; The Volunteers; The Yeomanry; Surviving records of the militia, Volunteers and Yeomanry 1691-1800; Continental armies.
• Newspapers and books: Eighteenth-century Ulster newspapers; The range of material in newspapers; Other newspapers in Ireland and Britain; Publication of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
• Records relating to emigration from Ulster: Background reading; Newspapers and emigration; Estate papers and emigration; Church records and emigration; Emigrant's letter/journals; Other sources of information on emigration; Transportation.
• Education, charity and hospital records: Education records; Charity records; Hospital records.
• Business and occupation records: The range of business records; Business records relating to Ulster 1600-1800; Trade tokens; Occupations.
• Records of organisations, clubs and societies: The Freemasons; The Orange Order; Other Organisations.
• Diaries, Journals, memoirs and correspondence.
• APPENDICES: Records relating to parishes in Ulster; Estate collections; Archives and libraries, Locations in Ulster.
• MAPS.
• SUBSCRIBERS
• INDEX