Ireland Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

If you cannot find an index reference, consider the following reasons:<br>

*Late registrations of births and deaths are indexed separately at the end of each index volume. <br>**Surnames are often spelled differently than expected. <br>**Surnames with prefixes, such as O'Brien or McDonnell, may be listed without their prefixes (Brien, Donnell). <br>**Events are filed by the date they were registered, not the date they occurred and may therefore be indexed in a later volume. (For example, a birth on 20 December 1879 which was registered on 6 January 1880 will be listed in the January-March volume of 1880.) <br>**Indexes were hand-prepared and may contain errors, such as copying mistakes (for example, the interchange of T and F) and missed entries. <br>**Occasionally, people were registered under a variation of their first name, other than that recorded at the time of their birth or death. For instance Ted for Edward or Molly for Mary. <br>**In error, some marriages have been indexed by the name of only one party. <br>**If a woman was married previously, then her surname in the marriage index might at a later marriage be her surname from a previous marriage and not her maiden surname. <br>**Vital information provided by the family ('''particularly age at death''') is often incorrect. <br>**People with prolific first names or surnames are sometimes difficult to distinguish in the index. <br>**Children born before their parents were married may be listed under the mother's maiden name. <br>**Some children are simply listed as male or female if they were not named by the time of registration. <br>**Some events were not registered, even though registration of births, marriages and deaths was required by law.