First, the bad news (not that it’s news: if you’ve been pursuing Irish genealogy at a level beyond that of absolute beginner, you already know about the sad loss of the nineteenth-century Irish census returns): There are no surviving census…
Continue reading →As if Ireland hasn’t already lost enough invaluable and irreplaceable genealogical records, John Grenham sounds the alarm over the state of the original Roman Catholic parish registers — which are “still sitting in the sacristies and presbyteries around the country…
Continue reading →John Grenham of Irish Roots has compiled a very handy list of What Irish Records are online? If you’re pursuing Irish genealogical research, you should certainly check out this list, and then bookmark the page.
Continue reading →Some excellent advice by professional genealogist John Grenham, whose Irish Roots column is a must-read.
Continue reading →Via John Reid’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, Findmypast is offering free access to its Irish birth, marriage, and death records for four days, from 27-30 June. This gesture of generosity from the UK-based Findmypast as an apparent commemoration of the destruction by…
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