Irish Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan TD (Teachta Dála — member of the Irish parliament) and Employment Affairs and Social Protection Minister, Regina Doherty, TD announced yesterday the release of a further tranche of Ireland’s historical registers of births, marriages and deaths online.
This latest addition includes births for 1917 and 1918, marriages from 1864 to 1869, 1942 and 1943, and deaths for 1967 and 1968.
The public can now access via www.irishgenealogy.ie the following records for free:
- Births from 1864 to 1918
- Marriages from 1864 to 1943
- Deaths from 1878 to 1968.
Minister Madigan said, “The addition of further years of historic registers of births, marriages and deaths on the website www.irishgenealogy.ie is an exciting development in family history research for Irish people here and all Irish descendants around the world.
“Since this online service became available in 2016 over 2.1 million visitors to the website have viewed these records.”
According to The Journal, an Irish online publication, the General Register Office is currently working on updating further records of marriages dating back to 1845 and deaths dating back to 1864. The ministers said these records will be available “in due course.” In the meantime, the indexes to these particular records are currently available on www.irishgenealogy.ie.
