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Title:Celt Notefile
Moderator:TALLIS::DARCY
Created:Wed Feb 19 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1632
Total number of notes:20523

843.0. "Irish Ancestory, how to Trace it." by RTOEU::RDELANEY (Adam 'ad 'em.......) Fri Dec 14 1990 04:11

    Here is some information I dug up for someone recently.
    
    There are two sources in Dublin for tracing Birth details,

   (i)  General Register Office, Births Marriages & Deaths Section,
        8 Lombard St East, Dublin 2.,    Tel: (01) 711000


    They will do a five year search  i.e. b 1882, will search 1880-84.
    Need d.o.b., names, parents, parish details. Request to be made in
    writing.


   (ii) National Library of Ireland, Genealogical Office, Kildare St,
        Dublin 2.,                       Tel: (01) 618811

    They offer consultancy package to advise where to go to find likely 
    information �10 a shot, �20 for overseas. 

    
    	- Robin.........
    
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843.1Many more sourcesDBOSW2::BRENNAN_MTodays best labour saver - TomorrowFri Dec 14 1990 05:4524
    One of the majur problems in tracing registers of births, marriages and 
deaths is the lack of information. In general birth certs etc do no go back 
far beyond 1850. In some cases it may be even more recent than that.

Also there is no cebtral record of birthes etc. Most counties keep their own.
In some counties these records are scattered throughout the county. This is 
why if you have the town and county it is probably easier to write to the
registrar of births marriages and deaths
		XXX Co Council
		Address.
There is usually a fee for the certificate .

An Older source of data is the Church. All the churches have baptismal records
In many cases these go back as far as 1600. Also in the case of the C Of I there
will be tithe books up to 1840. These give the families which exist in the 
areas. Some parishes are much better than others in keeping these.

There may also be census data. However much of this was lost in the Custom
House fire of 1920. However some still survives. However census data up to 1900
is all that is available. The rest is confidential.

The  Geanological Office is a good source. of Info. Their records are being 
computerised at the moment and should be ready for next year.