GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
History of Irish Record keeping.

List of Genealogical Office Manuscripts.

OFFICAL RECORDS.
The Visitations.
The Funeral Entries.
The Offical grants and confirmations of arms.
The Registered Pedigrees.

Administrative Records and Reference works.

Research Material.

More Research material held in the Genealogical Office.

Archive Material.

Indexes held in the Genealogical Office.

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Administrative Records and Reference Works

Many of the documents now part of the general manuscript series simply derive from the paperwork necessary to run an office. These include cash books, receipts, Ulster's Diaries, letter books, day books, and records of fees due for the various functions carried out by Ulster. Of these, the most interesting from a genealogical point of view are:
  • the letter books (GO 361 & 378), copies of all letters sent out from the Office between 1789 and 1853,
  • the Betham letters (GO 580 & 604), a collection of the letters received by Sir William Betham between c.1810 and 1830 and purchased by the Genealogical Office in 1943.