GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
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Research Material
The most useful manuscripts in the Genealogical Office collection are those acquired and created to provide sources for genealogical research. The policy was begun in the early nineteenth century by Sir William Betham and continued by all of his successors, and has produced a wide range of material, much of it based on records which were destroyed in the Public Record Office in 1922.
It may be divided into three broad categories:
- Betham's own compilations
- the collections of later genealogists
- other records.
The greatest single work produced by Betham is the collection of abstracts of family information from prerogative wills.These are divided into a number of series:
[Betham Sketch pedigree:
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- GO 223 - 226 ( Old Series Vols I-IV) covers wills before 1700;
- GO 227 - 254 (New Series Vols 1 - 31) covers wills from 1700 to c.1800.
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Each series is roughly alphabetical, with each volume containing its own index.
Sir Arthur Vicars' Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536 - 1810 provides a guide to wills covered. Many of the sketch pedigrees include later amendments and additions from other sources. GO 255-6 indexes all of the marriage alliances recorded in the wills. Another series, GO 203-214 (Will Pedigrees Vols I-XII) represents an unfinished attempt to re-arrange all of these sketch pedigrees into strictly alphabetical order. Betham also produced a large number of sketch pedigrees based on other sources, collected as:
- Ancient Anglo Irish Families Vols I-VI (GO 215-219),
- Milesian Families Vols I- III (GO 220-222), and the
- "1st series" Vols I-XVI(GO 261-276) and
- "2nd series" Vols I-VII (GO 292-298).
These last four are indexed in GO 470.
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