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How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research, 5 Lessons

How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research: Gazetteers

Presenter: Dan Poffenberger

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In this segment you will learn about the different gazetteers.

Language: English

Lesson Content

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.
How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research: Government Jurisdictions

This segment will cover the different government jurisdictions in Ireland.
How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research: Religious Jurisdictions

In this segment you will learn about the religious jurisdictions of Ireland.
How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research: Gazetteers

In this segment you will learn about the different gazetteers.
How Understanding Jurisdictions Can Help Your Irish Research: Maps

This segment will discuss different maps that can help in your research.

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