If your Irish ancestors were wealthy Anglo-Irish property owners, you will definitely want to read on.

While most of us do not fall into that category, you will nonetheless enjoy John Grenham's ubiquitous humor in his June 25 blog posting.

John describes the holdings of the Genealogical Office (GO), which are now part of the National Library of Ireland manuscripts department. The collection with greatest potential for family history research is probably information extracted by Sir William Betham from prerogative wills up through 1800.

Prerogative wills, per John, are those with property in more than one jurisdiction--thus covering only wealther families. (These original records were destroyed by the 1922 fire.) The sketch of the Reynolds family tree is particularly helpful in exemplifying what lucky researchers might find.