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Pedigrees

Academic rigour is essential. We will only publish pedigrees that have been certified by legitimate authority, or have been publicly published by competent genealogical authority and have since been engrained into the body of genealogical literature. 

Historically Accepted Pedigrees*

*While these are pedigrees which have been historically accepted, modern research has proven that some elements of some of these sources are incorrect. 

The digitized folios of Louis Nicolas Hyacinthe Chérin who worked as the genealogist to the King of France during the Ancien Regime. This pedigree was certified on 8 June 1776 by both Cherín himself and by Ralph Bigland, the Clarenceux King of Arms.

This is the very well known work by John O'Hart. His research is sometimes questionable, as he includes several errors, so this work should be taken with a grain of salt. Most notably for MacCarthy Reagh researchers is that Finghin listed as generation 125, was not the son of Cormac, but was rather his brother.

Following up with O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees," Finghin (1625-1676) although almost certainly one of “the other sonnes” of Donal (d. 1636) (see image 85), he cannot be Cormac’s son. The Inquisition Post Mortem of Donal MacCarthy Reagh can be found here: Irish Record Commission, “Inquisition Post Mortem for Dermott McTeige McDermott Duff, taken at King's Old Castle, Cork on 17/10/1636.” (See page 66, image 51 of 58.) The linked document is a PDF with a photo of the original document (in latin), a transliteration of the document, and an english translation.

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