Have you ever felt a deep connection to your Celtic roots? Beyond celebrating the cultures and traditions of your Celtic heritage, you might’ve thought about researching your genealogy.
Luckily, Celtic Books has a wide variety of books for tracing the history of your Celtic background!
Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
by Chris Paton
A practical guide to researching ancestors from Northern Ireland’s capital city. With a concise summary of the city’s history, a tour of some of the city’s most amazing archives, libraries and museums, and a detailed overview of the records generated by those who came before, the reader is steered towards centuries of ancestral exploration, both through online resources and within the city of Belfast itself.
Clans and Tartans of Scotland
This compact book sets out to identify the larger Scottish clan and family names, their tartans, septs (dependent family names), heraldic crests, mottos, ancestral lands and allegiances. It features full colour photographs of each tartan as opposed to digital reproductions, allowing readers to see both the textures and patterns.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records
A Guide for Family Historians
by Chris Paton
Genealogist and best-selling author Chris Paton explores how the surviving records can help with our ancestral research, but also tell the stories of the communities from within which our ancestors emerged.
Cemeteries and Graveyards
A Guide for Local and Family Historians in England and Wales
Chapters concentrate on the history of death and burials, the evolution of churchyards, cemeteries and crematoria, funerals and undertakers and the records associated with each. The coverage is comprehensive, ranging from prehistoric burials and beliefs and the origin of the churchyard to ossuaries, cremation and the preservation and destruction of graves.
Your Irish Ancestors
A Guide for the Family Historian
by Ian Maxwell
Provides an entertaining insight into everyday life in Ireland during the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell’s highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland.
