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Irish Genealogy News
Rolling news for Irish family historians
My Irish Genealogy News blog was published from April 2011 to July 2024. It proved extremely popular and for many genealogists - ever eager to keep abreast of the latest record releases, events, discounts, book launches and other developments - "Claire Santry's blog" was the day's first online stop.
The decision to close it was difficult but, in the end, pretty much forced upon me due to family and other commitments. It remains online and will be so for the foreseeable future.
In the meantime, I still have writing commitments to fulfil this year so I need to keep up-to-date with what's going on in Irish genealogy. I'll be keeping notes, and I may as well share them. They'll be brief - very brief - and, unlike my blogposts, these news snippets won't provide details or opinion/comment and they definitely won't be daily!
Please feel free to bookmark this temporary and very-much honed-down version of Irish Genealogy News.
30 August 2024
Irish Genealogy News: September 2024
IrishGenealogy.ie: This state-managed and essential website is being redesigned. In the meantime, some of the non-core areas of the site are not functioning. Two free databases remain accessible, however: Civil BMD registrations and Church records. No further details about the redesign have been announced.
Public Record of Northern Ireland in Belfast has reinstated a late evening (Thursdays to 8pm) to its weekly opening hours from 12 September to the end of November. It will then be reviewed.
TipperaryStudies has digitised all articles published in the Tipperary Historical Journal from 1988 to 2008. Free to view. Select by volume or by list of article titles at buff.ly/4aOAghm (scroll to bottom of landing page for links).
Limerick Archives will be closed from Thursday 12 September to Wednesday 2 October (incl.). Many of its collections are free to view at limerick.ie/archives.
The Central Statistics Office of Ireland has launched its Census Pilot Survey to test an historic new online census. Some 20,000 households in 44 locations across six counties will be taking part this month, answering questions that their descendents will use to find out how their ancestors (us!) lived. It will be the first time the public has the option to fill out a census form online.
RootsIreland.ie is offering a 25% discount on all 12-month subscriptions ordered before 23:59hrs (Dublin time) on Tuesday 17 September. Both new and existing customers can take advantage. Details.
ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk - can be useful for locating 'missing' Irish ancestors - has redesigned its website.
Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives monthly update included headstone photos and inscriptions for burial grounds in Rosscarberry, COR; St Joseph's, Loughduff, CAV; Murhur, KER; Kilmanaghan, OFF; and St John's, Wexford Town, WEX. Also Church of Ireland marriages 1845-1919 from Kilbarron, DON. (Chapman Codes)
Irish Genealogy News: August 2024
RootsIreland.ie expands its Co. Armagh database with 912 Church of Ireland baptism and burial records from Montiaghs parish and 11,660 headstone transcriptions from 18 burial grounds across the county. Details at https://www.rootsireland.ie/2024/08/new-armagh-records-added-4/
Registry of Deeds Index Project: Volunteers expanded the database to 600,611 index records from 61,985 memorials of deeds. https://irishdeedsindex.net/
National Library of Ireland confirms it's online collection of RC parish register images are downloading in reduced quality. The NLI's techies are working to resolve the problem. See Boards forum.
Irish Roots Magazine: Latest edition of this must-read quarterly publication is now available. Print or digital options. Click cover photo, left, for sample.
MyHeritage has added an index to 9,455,068 Irish civil birth records. It covers all 32 counties of the island from 1864 to 1921 and continues for the Free State / Republic of Ireland until 1958. Search at myheritage.com.
Book launch. Dublin: The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923, by
Brian Hughes. 256-page illustrated paperback. Catalogue price €24.95.
ISBN: 978-1-80151-119-3. Published by FourCourtsPress.ie.
Ancestry has uploaded 6,043 Co. Armagh transcriptions from the Portadown, Northern Ireland, Street Directories, 1910 and 1959. Details.
RootsIreland.ie has expanded its Co. Monaghan database with 15,500 census substitute records from five source groups. Details at https://www.rootsireland.ie/2024/08/new-monaghan-records-added-4/
DNA Summer School returns this September (from 2nd to 6th). Hosted online by the North of Ireland Family History Society. Two classes per day for beginners to advanced. Single classes (£10) or book all ten (£80).
Irish Genealogy News: from 7 July 2024
Ancestry added 3,538 Waterford records from Thompson's Funeral Books, 1874-1929 to its Irish collection. (These can be viewed, unindexed but free, at WaterfordLibraries.ie.)
RootsIreland.ie expanded its North Mayo database with more than 13,000 new Roman Catholic baptismal and marriage records. As a result, most of the RC parish records for the region now extend to the year 1923. See additions at https://www.rootsireland.ie/2024/07/new-mayo-records/.
