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Search Room at the General Register Office (GRO)
From Department of Social Protection
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From Department of Social Protection
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The office provides a walk in service to the public on Tuesdays only between 10am - 12.30pm and 2pm – 4.30pm.
Our email service allows greater speed and accuracy when dealing with searches. The service is managed 5 days a week. It accesses all of the civil registration records up to present day and customer searches are frequently provided on a same day service.
This service requires that you have sufficient information to identify a specific entry from the index.
For reasons of data privacy, staff cannot conduct the research for you or conduct searches using speculative or non-specific information.
The email address is GROResearchRoom@welfare.ie
You can order copies of entries from the registers from our staff in the research room and if you wish to order certified copies of entries, you can still do so from the General Register Office in Roscommon.
Historic records of the following can be viewed on the Irishgenealogy.ie website:
2 types of searches may be undertaken at the genealogical/family history research facility:
The fee for a copy of an entry from the records is €5.