A good year for Irish searching.

[KiwiRose]

Hello MacGillean,

I'm not sure which website you were on but if you were referring to The National Archives of Ireland, the census records still have the date "December 2008" for their release. We are a week into December and nothing has happened yet. My excitement is building and building and I'm checking the site daily and sometimes twice!

The Familysearch Record search site doesn't seem to give any advance notice of their releases. This site is also checked out daily for the Irish BMD indexes release.

PRONI still has their will transcripts unavailable online. How long is 'shortly' available?

I wonder who will be the first Rootschatter to spot when any of these come on line?

The anticipation is getting a little too much for me.

Regards
KiwiRose.

[Gortinanima]

We might get an early Christmas present?

Latest from National Archives of Ireland website:

The 1911 Census records for Antrim, Down and Kerry will be available online on 23 December 2008.

Hopefully this time they will keep their word.

[KiwiRose]

Thank you Gortinanima for the update from the National Archives of Ireland.  Fingers crossed for a 23 December release. What a fantastic Christmas present!

Regards
KiwiRose.

[Gortinanima]

Good News - the 1911 census for Antrim, Down and Kerry went

live at 6pm this evening:

Good luck in your research

[Notinpastyet]

Great News ,happy christmas,regards Nipy

[Marc Mc Namara]

I have just come off the Family Search web site and had a look out of curiosity at their completed worldwide indexing project and see that

Irish births have been completed from 1864 - 1958
Irish marriages from 1868 - 1958
Irish deaths from 1864 - 1958

Can i ask about the FAMILY Search data, when you say the above is complete, do you mean the records that they have are updated or that they have scribed the whole record set?  i have never found a single record - not even to clarify data i know to be correct.  Have i misunderstood what the site is about?

Marc

[kooky]

Can I echo Marc's query?
Kooky

[spof]

I have just come off the Family Search web site and had a look out of curiosity at their completed worldwide indexing project and see that

Irish births have been completed from 1864 - 1958
Irish marriages from 1868 - 1958
Irish deaths from 1864 - 1958

Can i ask about the FAMILY Search data, when you say the above is complete, do you mean the records that they have are updated or that they have scribed the whole record set?  i have never found a single record - not even to clarify data i know to be correct.  Have i misunderstood what the site is about?

Marc

Hi Marc

Familysearch are setting up a new website whch will link to actual scans of records. You can see it here:


http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0


To make the scans searchable, volunteers re transcribing the pages in a similar fashion to FreeBMD. The website for that project shows what has been completed, is currently being worked on or what is upcoming. You can see the completed projects including the Irish BMDs here:

http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/projects/completed_projects.jsf

Cheers

Glen

[Ruskie]

Glen, I can see in your second link that there are many completed Irish records, however in your first link I can see a few UK records but no mention of anything Irish ... what am I missing? Where is the Irish stuff?