Ireland Catholic Church Records: Difference between revisions

Original parish registers are in local custody. Sometimes a priest will search parish records for you. Names, addresses, and parishes of priests are listed in the Irish Catholic Directory and Diary.  

Many catholic parish records, some as far back as the 1790's, as well as records of other churches, and census records, are being indexed by county Heritage Centers. Heritage Centers are part of a country-wide system, the Ireland Family History Foundation, which has begun to digitize millions of the records.  The digitized records are currently available for on-line research at [http://www.rootsireland.ie/ http://www.rootsireland.ie/]. You can do a search of the records for free, but if you find an entry of interest, you must register on the web site and pay a 5 Euro fee to see a transcript of the full record, which may contain much additional helpful information.

 

[http://www.rootsireland.ie/ RootsIreland] (the Irish Family History Foundation's searchable database of church records).<br>[http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/index.html Irish Genealogy] (for parts of Dublin City and county, county Kerry and parts of West county Cork, so far). <br>

Filmed copies of almost all pre-1880 parish records are held by the National Library of Ireland. Filmed copies of pre-1880 parish registers for Northern Ireland are also kept by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. <br>