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http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2016/09/irelands-historical-registers-of-birth.html Ireland's historical registers of births, marriages and deaths are now online
The General Register Office of Ireland's historical civil registers of birth, marriage and death have been uploaded to the free state-run https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

As anticipated, they follow the 100-75-50 years access rule and they are free. If the index entry gives you the option of an image, you download a pdf of the full register page in which that birth, marriage or death certificate appears.

Slightly off track
I have in my possession a couple of old
Ordnance street maps of Belfast (east) 1902

Thanks Teresa

Irish certificates can be purchaed through here:

http://www.groireland.ie/ For Southern Ireland (Eire)

http://www.groni.gov.uk/index.htm For Northern Ireland BDM’s

I know for Souther Ireland, you have the option to have a certificate printed on a blank piece of paper which is cheaper than having it printed on the Official appropriate BDM Certificate. The information given is identical.

Hi everyone,could someone please tell me where the best and cheapest place to get and old irish wedding cert from,many thanks.

I am mightily impressed with this site, thank you.

Barbra ............

you don't need to nudge this thread ........ it's permanently pinned at the top of the Board :-D

Nudge so interesting Thank you :-)

I am trying to find the birth (or baptism) records for my great grandmother and her sisters and brother. They were born in County Donegal and came from Glenmaquin. I so far have not had any luck in finding them or the parish they are from. I think they were possibly Presbyterian.
They were:
Nancy bc1826 (went to New Zealand)
Eliza c1830 (went to Australia)
Susan c1835 (went to Australia)
William c1835 stayed in Ireland and married there - had a family
Rebecca c1837 (went to Australia)
Martha c1842 (went to Australia)

I have what information the Genealogy Research Centre in Rathmelton has and also records relating to William Allen from First Ray Presbyterian Church in Manorcunningham. Neither have records of the births/baptisms of any of the above.
Margaret c1844 (went to Australia)
John c? (thought to have gone to Australia)
Annie c? (not known if she emigrated or not)

I hope to visit Ireland soon and any suggestions re what records to try to search would be appreciated.

Julie

Thomas Joseph Kelly was born c1913 and it is believed that his family (sisters Kay and Dell + Mum & Dad) moved to Liverpool around 1916.
Dell married David Day lived in the Walton area of Liverpool and owned a butchers shop.
Can anyone help with further info.
Thank you

I am planning to go to Ireland next year and would love to find where my G. Grandmother Mary Kane, Cain etc. was from. Her parents were Robert and Mary Cooper Kane. All born in Ireland. They went to Scotland and Mary married an Alexander Wilson, also Irish and they had a son Alexander Wilson in Scotland. I can trace her in Scotland but haven`t had any luck finding her in Ireland. Can anyone help please.
Regards
Sheila

The National Library of Ireland has made all parish registers available online for free.

http://registers.nli.ie/

Can anyone help me with this rellie - he was sent to Australia on the ship Pekoe 1840
Was wondering if he had a family that may have went with him.

First name(s) JOHN
Last name MCNULTY
Age 33
Birth year 1807
Residence MAYO
Residence county Mayo
Year 1840
Date 26-May-1840
Role Prisoner
Offence ADMINISTERING UNLAWFUL OATHS
Prison KILMAINHAM
County DUBLIN
Register title DUBLIN-KILMAINHAM PRISON GENERAL REGISTER 1836-1840
Book no 1/10/30
Item no 3
Record set Irish Prison Registers 1790-1924
Category Institutions & organisations
Subcategory Courts & legal

Anyone else seen this?
I got in in a genealogy organisation newsletter.

Big changes to Irish Genealogy research coming soon

Online Catholic parish registers from the National Library of Ireland available in the coming summer

A huge change is coming soon for everyone involved in Irish genealogy. By summer 2015, the National Library of Ireland will have a dedicated website making its collection of Catholic parish register microfilms freely available online. These records are – by a long way – the single most important source of historical Irish family information, one of the greatest legacies of the Catholic Church to Ireland.

It is important to understand precisely what the website will do. The Library’s aim is to reproduce on the internet the service already available to the public in the microfilm reading room in Kildare Street in Dublin, where images of 98 per cent of parish registers before 1880 can already be viewed by anybody, without payment or membership or proof of identity.

The new site will offer precisely the same (sometimes frustrating) opportunity to look at (sometimes blurred) photographic reproductions of the original records. But instead of having to travel to Dublin from Buncrana or Ballymena or Boston, you will now be able to view them online. With this service, the Library is simply taking at face value the word “National” in its own title.

What are the implications? Clearly, once these images are as easily available in Salt Lake City and Bangalore as they are in Dublin, swarms of transcribers will descend. Ideally, the results will be free, though some transcripts may sit behind paywalls. On the other hand, there will be nothing to stop any local history society in the country from just putting a transcript of their own parishes online. The more the merrier.

Yippee!

I wonder if anyone can find details about my father.
William Faraday born 1928 in Dublin Ireland

The rest of the family had the surname of Keegan, but would never say why!

The only child that I found of the same name died after to hours. I found out in Ireland where all people were very helpfull

He never met his mother and as the person who,brought him up was going to,tell him the truth but at the,end she could not do so as she had made a promise.

My father was very fortunate to have a good home, a good education , and money was sent to him from USA,until,the age,of 21.

Great site, thank you.

I found my 2 x great grandad baptized at Dublin. :-)

Thanks for posting this and also for the notice that some of the information may be in Irish or Gaelic.

Shannon



Researching: Crawford, Chambers, Jones (all in Ireland)
Johnson, Kelly, Carlton, Judge, Brakefield, Eldon, Kennard, Evernden, Higgins, Turk, Brandley, Heathfield, Cox, Bourne, Weeks, Batt, Upton, Dawkins and many more (from England)

Have been stuck for ages in trying to find out more information about James Cronin and his wife Julia ( McAdams) - were from Parteen, now, I might be able to find more - Thanks heaps Teresa!

Hi Margot, thanks for the link.
I posted on the site and recieved the answers I was after within the day :-D


Teresa

These websites are so brilliant i lost trace of some family fron 1891 for birkenhead found them all in ireland alive and kicking thanks for putting up the info