Courses / Module

• Identify and interpret the core online sources and locate repository and archival sources for family history research including census, civil registration, and church and land records.
• Discover the evidential value of historical printed sources such as newspapers and directories, testamentary and burial records, institutional, military and occupational records to enhance research leads and contexts.
• Identify and locate emigration records and discover the value of overseas sources to Irish genealogy.
• Evaluate and interpret primary and secondary sources, their accuracy and relevance, and the strengths and weaknesses of different classes of records.
• Place family history in the context of local, community and national narratives.
• Develop research methodology skills to research effectively, collate and organise findings, construct a family tree and write a family history narrative.
• Overcome problems with a lack of sources by using substitutes, contextual alternatives and innovative research techniques.

• 24 contact hours or equivalent (lectures, seminars, field trips, etc.)

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No

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