From Shamrock To Wattle: Digging Up Your Irish Ancestors
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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For the millions of Australians who carry Irish blood in their veins, tracing family roots back across the seas to the Emerald Isle can seem a daunting, even impossible task — yet From Shamrock to Wattle: Digging Up Your Irish Ancestors proves it to be a richly rewarding journey well within reach. Trevor McClaughlin, a leading authority on Irish-Australian migration history, presents a comprehensive and practical guide for genealogists at every level, chronicling the great wave of Irish immigration to Australia and detailing the key records, archives, and research strategies needed to reconnect families separated by famine, transportation, and ambition. McClaughlin's work is both a historical narrative and an indispensable research manual, grounding the reader in the social and political forces that drove the Irish diaspora to Australian shores while instructing them in the precise methodologies needed to navigate Irish and Australian record systems. The text illustrates how church registers, convict records, land grants, and civil documentation can be woven together to resurrect the lives of ancestors long obscured by time. Whether your forebears arrived as free settlers or in chains, this meticulously researched volume promises to unlock the secrets of a lineage that stretches from shamrock fields to the sun-scorched wattle of the Australian bush.
Author: Trevor Mcclaughlin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
For the millions of Australians who carry Irish blood in their veins, tracing family roots back across the seas to the Emerald Isle can seem a daunting, even impossible task — yet From Shamrock to Wattle: Digging Up Your Irish Ancestors proves it to be a richly rewarding journey well within reach. Trevor McClaughlin, a leading authority on Irish-Australian migration history, presents a comprehensive and practical guide for genealogists at every level, chronicling the great wave of Irish immigration to Australia and detailing the key records, archives, and research strategies needed to reconnect families separated by famine, transportation, and ambition. McClaughlin's work is both a historical narrative and an indispensable research manual, grounding the reader in the social and political forces that drove the Irish diaspora to Australian shores while instructing them in the precise methodologies needed to navigate Irish and Australian record systems. The text illustrates how church registers, convict records, land grants, and civil documentation can be woven together to resurrect the lives of ancestors long obscured by time. Whether your forebears arrived as free settlers or in chains, this meticulously researched volume promises to unlock the secrets of a lineage that stretches from shamrock fields to the sun-scorched wattle of the Australian bush.