Catholic Parish Records to go online in the Summer

[Nettie]

Thanks for the info, Sinann!

Umm. When is summer in Ireland? Being an upside downer I'm not sure when to get excited?

Regards Crowsfeet

I'm an upside-downer too, Crowsfeet, but in my experience, the Irish summer is usually a Wednesday in late July...lol.

[glensman]

One of the irritations of the R. C. records on microfilm in PRONI is that many are curiously arranged with the title after the record.  This can be frustrating on a film with a large number of records divided into sections by date, type of record and parish.  You see the record and then have to go to the end to discover what it is you are viewing.  Sometimes I start at the end and work backwards but this can be confusing (easily done in my case).

So I wonder if NLI's digitised version will be set out properly.

[eadaoin]

So I wonder if NLI's digitised version will be set out properly.

I don't think they're digitising them.
Just reread John Grenham in the Irish Times Monday - looks as if you'll have to scroll through them, or have I misread this?

eadaoin

[glensman]

Eadaoin

I suppose it depends what one means by digitising. The NLI press release refers to their digitisation project which in this case means 390,000 digital images of the microfilms which will be searchable by parish only.  I just hope that the record title comes before the record.  This unfortunately is not the case in many (all?) of the PRONI R.C. microfilms.

Whatever happens, it will be wonderful to have them online.

[artisann]

Thanks Sinann ...for the info....brill news

[Sinann]

Very interesting read regarding the forthcoming release of the parish records.
Paul Gorry's piece well worth reading.
http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2015/01/rc-registers-online-different.html

[Sinann]

In case anyone is getting too excited.
This link give a good idea what these records are going to be like.
Includes photos of some of some images
http://www.from-ireland.net/irish-roman-catholic-parish-records-images/

[Blue70]

Yes straight away I thought it sounded more difficult to use than some people will think.


Blue

[Elwyn Soutter]

I use the RC records regularly in PRONI and can confirm they are tricky to use. Often faded, badly written, out of order, entries that are upside down, filmed backwards, with gaps, and many of the earlier ones are entirely in Latin. And since there isn’t any index (and won’t be on the National Library on-line site), if you don’t know where in Ireland your ancestor originated, they probably won’t help at all.