15 February 2006

February Genealogy Column

Julie Miller’s monthly column is in the 11 February 2006 edition of the Broomfield Enterprise. The topic for February is “New Handybook is Here.” The article takes a look at the Eleventh Edition of The Handybook for Genealogists United States of America.

Coloradoan publishes Quirke genealogy

Terry Quirke has recently published Quirke Genealogy and Family History, a hardbound book of more than 600 pages, including illustrations and complete documentation. He summarizes the scope of the book as follows:

This started out to be a Quirke book but has ended up being an Irish book. It exemplifies the Irish diaspora of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From an Irish foot soldier in a British regiment of the early 1800s he, his children and their descendants became significant persons living in the major English speaking countries of the world: Ireland, India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States. The significant surnames in Ireland are Boland and Hogan; in India Quirke; in New Zealand Gallagher and Pearson; in England Quirke; in Australia O’Sullivan, Hore and Buckby; in South Africa Quirke and Biggs; and in the United States Quirke and Washburn.

You can see the book at Denver Public Library (G929.2 Q47qui2005), or obtain it from the publisher ($50.00 in North America, $75.00 elsewhere). Order from: Quirke, Quirke, and Assoc., Publishers, 2310 Juniper Court, Golden, Colorado 80401-8087, USA.

Reference: Quirke, Terence T., Jr. Compiler and Editor, Quirke Genealogy and Family History of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland, India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States. Golden, Colorado: Quirke, Quirke, and Assoc., 2005. 631p.: ill, ; 28 cm.