David Rencher’s 2016 Course
Irish Law and Government Documents
Course Outline:
Join instructor David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FUGA, FIGRS for an exciting course of instruction digging into the law and government documents of Ireland! These records are full of materials for the landed as well as the poor and landless in Ireland. Numerous records were created over four centuries as the English tried to hold onto control of Ireland by enacting laws to govern the population.
Ten sessions developed especially for the British Institute:
- Irish/English Court & Legal Records: An Overview for Genealogists
- Understanding the Four Courts of Chancery, King’s Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer
- Irish/English Civil Law and the Family Historian
- Introduction to Irish Law Libraries
- Introduction to Parliament and the Acts of Parliament
- British Parliamentary Papers I
- British Parliamentary Papers II
- Understanding and Using List and Index Society Volumes
- Government Departments and Record Classes
- The National Archives of England and Ireland