Tracing Your Westmeath Ancestors. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Tracing Your Westmeath Ancestors

This book sets out the records available for research on the history of County Westmeath families, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect. For each type of record, it describes the background to their compilation, and the categories of people and data included. It also provides background on the social history of County Westmeath and how this history has affected the keeping and survival of records. Westmeath contains the main towns of Athlone and Mullingar.

Gretta Connell is a native of Westmeath. She is a long-serving staff member with Westmeath County Library & Archives Service and has a particular interest in local history and genealogy. In recent years Gretta completed a Diploma in Local History from National University of Ireland, Maynooth; and also a Diploma in Genealogy and Family History from University College Dublin. Her other writing includes an essay entitled 'Westmeath County Council and the Struggle for Independence 1916-1922' which was published in the book "A Town in Transition: Post Famine Mullingar" edited by Seamus O'Brien. Rathlainne Publications (2007)