Irish Catholic records to go online

[Ina]

Hi,

Good news for those looking for Irish Catholic records. The following article tells that they will go online next summer.

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genea ... nline.html#


Ina

[Elwyn 1]

The only word of caution is that they are not being transcribed or indexed. So if you don’t know when or where an event took place, you’ll have to scroll through, parish by parish, year by year. And wait till you see the condition some of them are in. Faded, and with the most terrible handwriting. Some with baptisms and marriages intermingled. Some squeezed in at the top of the page. Some upside down (literally). Neat handwriting and good admin skills clearly weren’t a high priority when training priests in the 1800s! And of course, the earlier ones are all in Latin. Quite a challenge to read, and some are completely illegible. Still, a lot easier than going to the National Library in Dublin and other repositories.

It’s worth bearing in mind with Irish RC research that even the National Library doesn’t have all the possible parish records. Some have not been copied for one reason or another, or have only been partly copied. So this new resource won’t be all the possible early RC records in Ireland. This link is helpful in finding out what RC parish records exist and where copies are kept (sometimes the parish priest still has the only copy):

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/brow ... ies/rcmaps

[SarahND]

Elwyn,
That link doesn't work for me. I tried to get to it another way by searching on the Irish Times site, but in the end it required a subscription to see the page Do you know of another place such a list might be found?

Best,
Sarah

[AndrewP]

Hi Sarah & Elwyn,

That's the link in Elwyn's post edited - should work now.

All the best,

AndrewP

[SarahND]

=D> Thanks, Andrew!