Irish
Records
Northern
Ireland Records
Most will have heard that many records were destroyed during
the “troubles” in 1922. While this is true GRONI (Government Record Office of
Northern Ireland) and PRONI (Public Record of Northern Ireland) have tried to
replace and reconstruct these records where possible.
This link will take you to a page with further links to
GRONI, PRONI [1901 & 1911 census], National Archives and the National
Library, plus more.
The 1901 and 1911 census is free to search and to view the
results. You can also search partial census’ 1831-1851.
Go to the page and enter your search terms.
You will get a result screen like this:
Tick the box to Show all information. You will get more
information to the right.
Click on any name you are interested in. I’m using James
McMinn aged 67.
Selecting Show all information will again give you more
information to the right. However if you click on view census images….Household
Return (Form A) you can view the actual record.
Use the same method for the 1911 census.
Birth, Death
& Marriages.
Did you know
that all BDM’s were administered by
the General Registry Ireland? From 1864 to 1922 for Northern Ireland and 1864
to current for Eire. There is a link from the above link page.
Recommend
you take some time and explore the above site.
Mainly
covers the counties of Antrim and Down.
Has a free
searchable database for BDM’s in Ulster but you have to pay-to-view the
results. Mainly covers Antrim and Down.
Pre-1864 you
will need to use Parish Records. Unfortunately, a lot of Churches were not
filmed by the LDS. You may need to hire a researcher to view the actual
registers (or plan a trip and do it yourself LOL).
[The LDS will be ceasing their film service from
September 2017]. So even if your parish was filmed, you won’t be able to
access it.
There is a
blog/article about Irish Parish Registers here:
More
information on Presbyterian records can be found here:
Church of
Ireland, Parish Register information:
Irish
Catholic Parish Registers can be browsed for free here:
The RC
records are only browseable so you need to know what county and parish your
family came from.
There are
various Family History Groups for Ireland and Facebook pages. Just type “family
history group Ireland” into Google and find one for your area of interest.
The last
section, Irish Catholic Parish Records, was compiled by Tracey Evans.
Thanks,
Tracey.
IRISH CATHOLIC PARISH RECORDS
The Registers are available online for these records at :-
The only way that they are searchable by index is on Ancestry.uk or Find My Past.
I have to say though that not all are listed there – I have found a few
of mine manually searching that were on no index at all. Which is time consuming – however depends on
how desperately you want the document J.
To search the Parish records at the NLI (National Library of Ireland),
you have to do so manually. Which means
that you need to know the County and place that your ancestor was born, married
or died.
You can either start to enter the Parish (and suggestions will come up)
or alternative you can search the map
Not all records are available – there are some that just no longer
exists.
Below is an example from Donegal – Parish of Tullaghobegley West – as
you can see it only has records for Baptisms 1868 -1881.
The dates available and type of records vary – unfortunately it is a
case of having a look to see what is there.
Some records will be from late 1700’s to mid 1800’s, others won’t start
until mid 1800’s.
1880 is about the cut-off point for these records.
When you click on the record it will take you to this page. Select the Event and the Year that you want
then click Apply.
It is worth noting here that some of the records will be written in
Latin – so therefore whilst searching through you may not recognise a first
name – for example Patricius is Patrick,
So you will need to search carefully.
Below is an example from 1881 for the above parish – notice that the
columns are in Latin:-
So the first entry would be:-
Bridget COLL 6 December Patricius COLL
Sara
COLL
Translation:-
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