Table of Contents

Abbreviations 6Chapter 1 Introduction 9Chapter 2 Getting Started 11Chapter 3 Administrative Divisions 15Chapter 4 Civil Registration Records 25Chapter 5 Census and Census Substitutes 31Chapter 6 Church Records 55Chapter 7 Land and Estate Records 81Chapter 8 Wills and Administrations 93Chapter 9 Commercial and Social Directories 105Chapter 10 Family Histories and Surnames 113Chapter 11 Newspapers 125Chapter 12 Graveyard Records and Transcriptions 129Chapter 13 Further Reading & Miscellaneous Sources 133Chapter 14 Archive and Internet Information 143Index 149

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About the Author

Kay Caball is a genealogist specialising in Kerry ancestors, and runs the website www.MyKerryAncestors.com as well as publishing a weekly blog on local sources and issues. She has written several works on local history and families, including most recently "The Kerry Girls: Emigration & the Earl Grey Scheme" (Published by History Press, Ireland 2014). This is the story of 117 'orphans' sent from Kerry workhouses to New South Wales in 1849/50. Kay is also active in local Kerry organisations and has been a Member of Tralee Urban District Council 1979-1984; a Member of the Governing Body of the Institute of Technology Tralee 1993-1999, and is a Member of Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society.