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As well as the sketch pedigrees and the letters (covered above under Administrative Records), there are two other sources in the collection which owe their origin to Betham. The first of these, genealogical and historical excerpts from the plea rolls and patent rolls from Henry II to Edward V (GO 189-193), constitute the single most important source of information on Anglo Norman genealogy in Ireland.
Betham's transcript of Roger O'Ferrall's Linea Antiqua, a collation of earlier genealogies compiled in 1709, is the Office's most extensive work on Gaelic, as opposed to Anglo Irish, genealogy. This copy (in three volumes, GO 145 - 7, with an index to the complete work in 147) also contains Betham's interpolations and additions, unfortunately unsourced. It records the arms of many of the Gaelic families covered, without giving any authority for them, and is the source of most of the arms illustrated in Dr Edward MacLysaght's Irish Families.
Pedigrees and research notes produced by later amateur and professional genealogists make up a large part of the Office's manuscript collection. Among those who have contributed to these are Sir Edmund Bewley, Denis O'Callaghan Fisher, Tenison Groves, Alfred Moloney, T.U. Sadleir, Rev. H.B. Swanzy and many others, For the most part, their records concern either particular groups of families or particular geographical areas. Some of these have their own indexes, some are covered by GO 470 and 117, others have will abstracts only indexed in GO 429. The numerical listing accompanying this section provides a guide. As well as these, some of the results of Ulster's Office own research in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are classed as manuscripts, GO 800 - 822. These constitute no more than a fraction of the total research information produced by the Office. They are indexed in Hayes' Manuscript Sources.
A final class of records consists of extremely diverse documents, having only their potential genealogical usefulness in common. It includes such items as freeholders' lists from different counties, extracts from parish registers, transcripts of the Dublin city roll of freemen, of returns from the 1766 census, of city directories from various periods, and much more.
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