• Update to the Civil Records

    An additional year of historic Births, Marriages and Deaths (Index entry and register image) are now available to view on the website www.irishgenealogy.ie website. The records now available online include: Birth register records – 1864 to 1923; Marriage register records – 1845 to 1948 & Death register records – 1871* to 1973.

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  • Welcome to www.irishgenealogy.ie

    churchrecords irishgenealogy.ie is a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their Irish Ancestry. The website is home to the on-line historic Indexes of the Civil Registers (GRO) of Births, Marriages, Civil Partnerships and Deaths and to Church Records of Baptism, Marriage and Burial from a number of counties.

    The website also operates as a search portal that allows users to search the following record sources as well:

    • 1901/1911 Census records and pre-1901 survivals
    • Census Search Forms from 1841/1851
    • Tithe Applotments
    • Soldier’s Wills
    • Griffith’s Valuations
    • Ireland - Australia Transportation database
    • Military Archives
    • Ellis Island
    • National Photographic Archive from the National Library of Ireland
    • We hope that you enjoy its many features and design.

    www.irishgenealogy.ie is a website operated by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media

  • Welcome to Family Research 2016

    2016 Family History home2016 Family History is a  free Irish genealogy education website, brought to you by the National Archives and IrishGenealogy.ie. The site is aimed primarily at secondary school students, but can be used by anyone with Irish ancestors to learn how to use the multiplicity of online sources now available for family history.

  • Church records available online @ www.irishgenealogy.ie

    This website holds a large searchable volume of pre 20th Century Church records of Baptism, Marriage and Burial that in many instances pre-date the Civil Registration. These include:

    Transcripts of the baptism and marriage records of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kerry to c. 1900, All Roman Catholic baptism, marriage and burial registers for Dublin City, All surviving Church of Ireland baptism, marriage and burial registers for Dublin City,... To search these records directly, please click here.

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  • Minister Humphreys launches online genealogy toolkit for schools to help students discover their family history

    Minister Humphreys launches online genealogy toolkit for schools to help students discover their family historyThe Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD, launched an online genealogy toolkit for schools, aimed at encouraging students to trace their roots and explore their family tree.

    The 2016 Family History website has been created by the National Archives as a legacy project under the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. Minister Humphreys met with students in Muckross College in Donnybrook, who had been trialling the website, to launch the online resource

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Main Search

This site now also permits a simple, initial, ready-made search of the following sites:
• The 1901 census
• The 1911 census
• Indexes to Registers of Births Deaths and Marriages
• Griffith's Valuation
• The Tithe Applotment Books
• The National Archives of Ireland Collection of Soldiers' Wills
• The records of the Bureau of Military History
• The online catalogue of the National Library of Ireland
• The US immigration records of Ellisisland.org
• The US immigration records of CastleGarden.org
• The Ireland-Australia Transportation database
• The records in National Archives of Ireland collection "Women in 20th-century Ireland – 1922-1966: sources from the Department of the Taoiseach database"
• The records of the Royal Irish Academy's Digital Humanities Observatory

Entering a forename ("John"), surname ("Murphy") and location ("Cork") in the initial search pages and clicking "Search" will take you to a page with links to the above resources that include the information you have entered. So, for example, clicking on "Search 1901 census" on the results page will open a new window or tab showing all John Murphys recorded in Co. Cork in the 1901 census.

The various sites you will be taken to all operate in their own ways. In particular, most do not search on surname variants: a list of these is provided near the top of the page to remind you that it may be necessary to search again on the external site itself.

In other words, these initial results will vary from site to site. The ready-made searches are included in order to point out what other resources are available and to help you take the first step in using them.

Wildcards

All the searches allow the use of the wild-card " * ". This takes the place of any series of letters in the search-term you enter. So, for example, entering "McEntaggert" returns 6 results, while "M*c*n*t*g*rt" (which finds Mackentaggart, MacEntaggert, McIntegert, McEntaggirt etc.) returns 398.

Keep in mind that vowels are where accents live and so are more likely to change in the records.

Advanced Search

The "More search options" link on the Simple Search homepage takes you to the Advanced Search Page. Here you can:
• limit the search to exact surname matches only
• specify spouse's name
• parent's name
• child's name
• specify precise times and places for events
• any word or phrase that occurs in a record

Again, beware of being too specific, particularly in time and place.

Simple Search: Cast The Net Wide

The aim of the main search page (http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/) is to provide a simple entry point. Beware of entering too much information. A forename and surname are generally enough. Then examine the results. The navigation links in the left-hand column allow you to narrow down these results by denomination, by event, and by decade. At the bottom of the left-hand column, you can also add in additional names to further narrow a search.

You should be aware that by default the search returns all records in which both personal names occur. In other words, if you enter "John Murphy", the search will give you all records in which a "John" and a "Murphy" (or their variants) occur in any of the name fields. So, for example, if the father's name is John and a godparent's surname is Murphy, that record will be retrieved by a search for a John Murphy. You can sort the results by relevance to show most precise matches first. You can also sort the results in simple chronological order.

The overall moral is simple: cast your net as wide as possible to begin, than systematically narrow down the results.

Surname Variants

The records physically held by this site are the church records detailed at WHAT CHURCH RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE?
By default, the search includes all known variant spellings, with the most exact matches returned first. The basis for these variants is the surname collection produced by transcribing Kerry surnames and so may be biased, particularly when dealing with northern surnames. By default, the search also includes all variants of any forename entered.

Welcome from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

I am very pleased to welcome you to irishgenealogy.ie the website dedicated to helping you search for family history records for past generations. The website is now home to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the General Register Office. These records join the Indexes to the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths that were already available on the website.