1. Diploma in Family History
The Genealogical Office 1

2. HERALDRY IN IRELAND Feudal, Norman practice, Crusades
Europe-wide, 11th-13th centuries
No native heraldry
Now two kinds
Souvenir
Official (blazon)
Burke arms

3. HERALDRY IN IRELAND
Detail from the Registration of Arms of Donogh McGillicuddy of Kerry 1688.

4. ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: PRE-1800
Founded in 1552
Active (as evidenced by records) from mid 1700s
Sinecures and backhanders

5. ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1800 - 1853
Sir William Betham (1779–1853)
Deputy Ulster
Ulster 1820 – 1853
Record-keeping
Bedford tower

6. ULSTER OFFICE OF ARMS: 1857 - 1943
Sir John Bernard Burke ( )
Sir Arthur Vicars (1893 – 1908)
Sir Neville Wilkinson (1908 – 1940)

7. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE: 1943 TO DATE
“The Genealogical Office/Office of the Chief Herald”
Edward MacLysaght
Gerard Slevin
Donal Begly
Fergus Gillespie
Collette O’Flaherty

8. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE GRANT, 2006

9. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
Heraldic
Official Records (Visitations, Funeral Entries Official grants and confirmations of arms, Registered Pedigrees ...)
Administrative Records and Reference Works
Armories, ordinaries of arms, treatises on heraldry and precedence, English Visitations, blazons of arms

10. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
Research material: Betham's compilations.
Prerogative wills.
"Ancient Anglo-Irish Families" "Milesian Families“
Excerpts from the plea rolls and patent rolls Henry III - Edward VI
Transcript of Roger O'ferrall's "Linea Antiqua"

11. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
Research material:
Genealogists’ pedigrees and research notes
Edmund Bewley, Denis O'Callaghan Fisher, Tenison Groves, Alfred Moloney, T.U. Sadleir, Rev. H.B. Swanzy
Ulster’s research
Research aids
(census transcripts, freemen’s lists ...)

12. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
Research material
Archives: c. 20,000 GO research files

13. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
Research material
Indexes
GO 470: Index to Unregistered Pedigrees.
GO 469: Index to Registered Pedigrees.
McAnlis, Virginia Wade. The Consolidated Index to the Records of the Genealogical Office, Dublin, Ireland. Vols. 1-4., Washington: Virginia R. McAnlis, Online

14. GENEALOGICAL OFFICE RECORDS
Access
Now only via NLI/LDS microfilm
See => Office of the Chief Herald
catalogue.nli.ie => “genealogical” + digitised

16. HISTORY
Susan Hood: Royal Roots, Republican Inheritance: The Survival of the Office of Arms (Dublin, Woodfield Press, 2002)