How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research: Introduction

This five part course teaches the basics of Ireland jurisdictions. This is important because records are kept by various government and religious entities and these often divide the land into jurisdictions in which our ancestors lived. In other words, knowing the extent of government and religious jurisdictions helps us understand the records they kept so we are more likely to find our ancestors in them. It also demonstrates a few favorite resources for understanding the jurisdictions and using that understanding to find records. The entire class will take you 1:00:08 to finish.