And so it ends. After 14 years and 5,764 blogposts, Irish Genealogy News is taking its leave. Kind of. There will be no new blogposts but those that have already been published will remain online for a while... probably until the domain name comes up for renewal. My website – Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com – will also be continuing for the time being. It will be receiving some much-needed ..read more

A few quick fire news items for you: Landmark research on Irish Civl War fatalities has been published online by University College Cork. The project represents the first real attempt to investigate the number of all combatant and civilian death from the opening shots of the Civil War on 28 June 1922 and the ceasefire and dump arms order on 24 May 1923s. In collaboration with UCC’s Atlas of the ..read more

The second week of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland's release of records delivered the promised Census records (see teaser in Part I of Anniversary Gifts for Genies blogpost) and more. So let's get down to it. The following releases and plans for their expansion will delight Irish genealogists: 1821 Census of Ireland transcripts: There's been a lot of detective work going on to make ..read more

Genealogists in Ireland and the UK can take advantage of a special sale price on Ancestry DNA test kits until 11:59pm on Monday 15 July. Ancestry DNA is the number one selling dna test kit and gives you access to the world's largest consumer network, so you've more chance of matching up with your genetic cousins and extending your family tree. With this generous 30% discount, the kits cost £54 ..read more

Limerick Libraries has been busy digitising and developing its new local studies website at limericklocalstudies.ie. Among the wide range of material now freely available on the site are 23 publications in the free digital books collection. These include Margaret Franklin’s Bibliography of Limerick, Tom Toomey’s definitive account of the history of The War of Independence in Limerick, Limerick ..read more

The Irish Registry of Deeds Index Project has been updated and the main Index now holds 595,067 index records from 61,422 memorials of deeds. They are freely searchable. Every one of these memorials has been indexed by a volunteer, releasing fascinating genealogical information unlikely to be available elsewhere, and likely to remain hidden away, undigitised, in Dublin's Registry of Deeds for ..read more

The Dublin-based Irish Newspaper Archives is running its annual summer sale and marking Independence Day 2024 with big discounts. The family-owned database holds more than six million pages of newspaper content from 249 titles published both North and South of the Irish border over a period of c280 years.It includes a mix of historical and current titles. This material is split across two ..read more

RootsIreland.ie is offering a 20% saving on 12-month subscriptions to its database to those who order one before 11:59pm (GMT+1) on Tuesday 16 July 2024. The RootsIreland database is managed by the Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF), a not-for-profit organisation that has been co-ordinating a network of 32 genealogy and heritage centres across the island for 30+ years. It currently holds ..read more

It was all about headstones last month! Each one of the seven bundles of records added to Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives in June delivered a package of headstone photos and inscriptions. Those records are, as always, now freely available to Irish genealogists, having been collected and donated by other family historians for the benefit of our research community. Gravestone to the Fleming ..read more

Listed below is a summary of newly-released and -updated genealogy collections for England, Scotland and Wales from the major genealogy databases. (for the previous list see 12 June blogpost.) These regular listings are designed to help researchers whose Irish ancestors migrated, temporarily or permanently, to England, Scotland or Wales. By default, they will also be useful to anyone carrying ..read more