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Northern Ireland is divided into 11 districts for local government purposes. In Northern Ireland, local councils do not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom. Their functions include planning, waste and recycling services, leisure and community services, building control and local economic and cultural development. Therefore, these districts do not manage archives and libraries.[1]

Libraries

Mellon Centre for Migration Studies
2 Mellon Road
Omagh BT78 5QU UK
Telephone: 028 8225 6315
Email: mcms@librariesni.org.uk
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The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies is a research library which collects material relating to the history of the peoples of Ireland worldwide. Visitors will have access to a reference collection of over 17,000 volumes, journals, maps, newspapers, computers, and the Centre's Irish Emigration Database, which is now available online.

Omagh Library
1 Spillars Place
Irishtown Road
Omagh BT78 1HL UK
Telephone: 028 8244 0733
Email: omagh.library@librariesni.org.uk
Website: Omagh Library

Museum

Ulster American Folk Park
2 Mellon Rd
Omagh BT78 5QU UK
Telephone: 028 8224 3292
Email: info@nmni.com
Website: Ulster American Folk Park
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Website #3: Ulster American Folk Park

Follow the trail of thousands of emigrants from the thatched cottages of Ulster, on board a full-scale emigrant sailing ship to the log cabins of the American Frontier.

Civil Registration Offices

  • How duplicate certificates are obtained has changed. These can no longer be issued from district registration offices.
  • All birth records from 1864 to 100 years ago have been digitized and are free to view and download at IrelandGenealogy.ie. Some of the later marriage and death records can also be downloaded from this site.
  • An index of Ireland Civil Registration -including births, 1864-1958, marriages, 1845-1958, and deaths, 1864-1958 - is available online at FamilySearch's Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 (An index of Ireland civil registration including 1864-1958 births, 1845-1958 marriages, and 1864-1958 deaths, but excluding index records for Northern Ireland after its creation in 1922.)
  • The General Register Office, Northern Ireland (GRONI) provides an online service for searching and ordering civil registration records. To search the records online, you must register for an account.

References

  1. "Local government in Northern Ireland", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Northern_Ireland, accessed 31 March 2023.