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The Irish Genealogyical Research Society
The Irish Genealogyical Research Society offers excellent research opportunities from their site. We encourage you to take a look to see if it will work for you.
There is a yearly membership cost of just $35, Take a good look to see what is being offered and to which websites they may recommend to which you may already have membership.
After the above introduction, consider looking at an informative article by Dick Eastman, about using this site for thousands of marriage records and more.
Samples of a few of pages. Use the actual website at the end of the article
There is a yearly membership cost of just $35, Take a good look to see what is being offered and to which websites they may recommend to which you may already have membership.
After the above introduction, consider looking at an informative article by Dick Eastman, about using this site for thousands of marriage records and more.
Samples of a few of pages. Use the actual website at the end of the article
The "Useful Links" page offers more than 30 essential and informative live links covering the following topics: Only eight of the 30 are "pay."
- Main national repositories
- Main church Resources
- Civil; Registration (Vital Records) of birth, marriage and death:
- Miscellaneous
When you use the link to the website, be sure to read the article under "News" titled,
Our BMD Index Breaks Through The 100,000 Barrier! (Births, Marriages, Deaths)
The following is an article from Dick Eastman's Blog this week. It covers the "Early Irish Marriage Index Reaches 80.000 Records - July 19, 2016 by IGHS Editor

Early Irish Marriage Index Reaches 80,000 Records
Dick Eastman · July 20, 2016 ·
The following announcement was written by the folks at the Irish Genealogical Research Society:
The Irish Genealogical Research Society’s Early Irish Marriage Index has now been updated, with several thousand more records being added, all noted from obscure and underused sources. The database now holds reference to more than 80,000 marriages.
Combining the names of brides, grooms with the various relatives mentioned in the database, the Marriage Index now notes almost 177,000 named individuals. A good many of the latest batch were extrapolated from Index of Nuns, a CD publication in 2015 by the Catholic Family History Society, which notes biographical information for about 14,000 nuns, many of them from Ireland. For many, their date of birth and parents’ names are recorded, allowing for an approximation of the year by which their parents had married.
Roz McCutcheon, the creator and coordinator for the BMD Indexes, said about the latest update: “I’m quietly pleased at breaking through the 80,000 barrier. With the steady help of some valued volunteers, I’m looking forward to the database soon reaching 100,000 marriages! In the meantime…I owe a big thank you to every one of my volunteers.”
You can search the updated Marriage Index by following this link to the search page.
An update to the Death Index was launched at the end of June. An update to the Birth Index will be launched in August.
The full story is published here: http://www.irishancestors.ie/?p=7550.
The Link to the Irish Genealogical Research Society
http://www.irishancestors.ie
Also notice that FindMyPast is offering 5 free days of
Irish records.
Use the following link to learn more.
https://blog.findmypast.com/free-irish-records-2308952595.html
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Dick Eastman · July 20, 2016 ·
The following announcement was written by the folks at the Irish Genealogical Research Society:
The Irish Genealogical Research Society’s Early Irish Marriage Index has now been updated, with several thousand more records being added, all noted from obscure and underused sources. The database now holds reference to more than 80,000 marriages.
Combining the names of brides, grooms with the various relatives mentioned in the database, the Marriage Index now notes almost 177,000 named individuals. A good many of the latest batch were extrapolated from Index of Nuns, a CD publication in 2015 by the Catholic Family History Society, which notes biographical information for about 14,000 nuns, many of them from Ireland. For many, their date of birth and parents’ names are recorded, allowing for an approximation of the year by which their parents had married.
Roz McCutcheon, the creator and coordinator for the BMD Indexes, said about the latest update: “I’m quietly pleased at breaking through the 80,000 barrier. With the steady help of some valued volunteers, I’m looking forward to the database soon reaching 100,000 marriages! In the meantime…I owe a big thank you to every one of my volunteers.”
You can search the updated Marriage Index by following this link to the search page.
An update to the Death Index was launched at the end of June. An update to the Birth Index will be launched in August.
The full story is published here: http://www.irishancestors.ie/?p=7550.
The Link to the Irish Genealogical Research Society
http://www.irishancestors.ie
Also notice that FindMyPast is offering 5 free days of
Irish records.
Use the following link to learn more.
https://blog.findmypast.com/free-irish-records-2308952595.html
We would like to hear from you. Use "Comments" below.