Genealogical Collections

Genealogical Collections

The Genealogical Manuscripts Collection from the Genealogy Office in Dublin Castle. See John Grenham, The Genealogical Office, Dublin for a full description of the nature of the records. This is a significant collection of about 148 rolls of microfilm, films 0100103 to 0100250. Some of the manuscripts are indexes to other manuscripts. Many of these indexes have been consolidated by Virginia McAnlis into a four-volume series of books, The Consolidated Index to the Records of the Genealogical Office, Dublin, Ireland [941.5 A3mv]. After checking this source, see page 10 of The Genealogical Office, Dublin for a complete listing of indexes to the Genealogical Manuscripts collection.

Tenison Groves Collection is a genealogical collection of muster rolls, householders, wills, deeds, and parish registers on FHL films 0258497 - 0258524. The index is on 0258471 - 0258497. The collection is also indexed as Series T808 in the PRONI Card Index to Names (see above).

Albert E. Casey Collection. Dr. Albert E. Casey was an American with ancestry in the areas of counties Cork and Kerry roughly designated as the Abbeyfeale-Millstreet- Killarney triangle. He compiled fifteen volumes of records containing 30,000 pages, and approximately 3,000,000 personal names. His work is entitled O'Kief, Coshe Mange, Slieve Lougher and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. Many researchers refer to the collection as "O'Kief." Included are cemetery inscriptions, abstracts from church records, and more. Casey's materials are housed in Samford University special collections, but it is also available on microfilm. The entire collection is on films 823801-823809. Tracing Your Cork Ancestors (book 941.95 D27mt) lists many of the records included. There is also a descriptive index on film 1145967.