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from a 1900 death cert.. does not sound very pleasant, but I'd like to know what people think first word might be... I can read the rest ok. I believe the first letter is an E - see the registrars name C. Eccles

thanks,


Shane

I've just found out that the RCB Library has Vestry minute books for a parish I'm interested in where the original Registers were lost. Has anybody examined any of these ?

I believe these books may have been used to record details that were later transferred into the actual registers... could they include the same sort of detail as the register ?


thanks,


Shane

Irish Civil records are intact and these include all Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1864, although some early births may have missed registration. In addition, non-Catholic and Registry Office marriages were included in the registers from 1845.

An Index to Civil records can be searched on the familysearch website at this link

Certs can then be ordered from the GRO using the references provided in the index record.

See these Rootschat topics for information on Civil records and Order Certs :

• Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations
• Ordering Certs from GRO Roscommon
• Ordering Certs for Northern Ireland Counties
• Details included on Birth, Marriage and Death certs.

Also available online are the Irish 1901 and 1911 census (free) on the National Archives website. No other earlier complete Irish census returns have survived and only fragments of earlier ones for a few places survive.

For earlier dates church records will be required, and to start researching these you need to know two details : religious denomination & location i.e. parish, town or townland (see addition details on Church records in the next post).

Some records are available on a free website IrishGenealogy - at the moment this website includes details for counties Carlow (Cofi), Kerry (RC & CofI), Diocese of Cork & Ross (RC) and parts of Dublin city & county (RC, CofI & Presbyterian). Some other areas are available on several subscription and pay-per-view websites.

Location of actual records depends mainly on the religious denomination involved, but Catholic records are available on microfilm in the National Library in Kildare St, in Dublin (website : http://www.nli.ie/), and most Church of Ireland records are available in the Representative Church Body Library in Rathfarnham (website : http://ireland.anglican.org/library/).

Records for certain parishes are available in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (RC, CofI and Presbyterian) - mostly for Ulster counties, and many RC records have been filmed by the LDS and are available through their libraries.

There are also some useful extracted civil record collections on familysearch :

 Births, 1864-1881
 Marriages, 1845-1870
 Deaths, 1864-1870 (not many included)

For more details on these and other sources see the various topics on the Rootschat Ireland Resources section and under each of the county boards.

Link to the IGI section on familysearch : International Genealogical Index
  (many of these records are submitted and need to be verified. These are now referred to 'Community Contributed' records)

(updated links 4th Mar 2013)

Available on Cork City Council Libraries website - http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/

Guy's City and County Cork Almanac and Directory for 1891 

Other directories are also available on the same website - including the 1907 and 1913 editions.


Shane