Irish Civil Registration Indexes and Catholic Records - ancestry
 

Yay!!!!


Here are the links:
Civil Reg Births Index
Civil Reg Marriages Index
Civil Reg Deaths Index

Catholic Baptisms
Catholic Marriages
Catholic Burials

Also this one, which I think may be from the BIVRI?
Irish Births and Baptisms

Very exciting indeed! I haven't had a chance to search any of these yet so I don't have any tips yet but please share anything you find or any tips you come up with. I expect the post-1922 Northern Irish civil registration indexes aren't included but haven't actually checked yet.

Great, I'm off to search for my Great Great Grandmother's family.

I haven't got a sub to Ancestry but OH's family have some very specific names such as Fullwood, Barnardo and the more common Newton. I can do a search for these names and find if there is a record for them, I just can't see the details.

However, it seems that some of the births for these families are not there. Some of the siblings appear, others don't.

One big advantage the ancestry civil reg marriage index has over the free one on FamilySearch is that you can click the page number to see likely spouses. Sorry to say they haven't got the actual images of the indexes, just transcriptions.

Hmmm, I've noticed that some of the Irish civil reg index entries have a "View image" button, but when you click on it there is just an error message. I hope that means they're intending to load the images at some time in the future.

And something else I've just discovered - it includes Irish "overseas" events, same as on FamilySearch. I wonder whether ancestry are ever going to transcribe the British "overseas" BMDs too?

I can't find much for my family in Dublin. Very dissapointed.

I've managed to trace one of my side-branches forward using the Civil Reg Indexes - I had the year of marriage for a female relly but hadn't managed to work out who she married before, so now I have who she married, a list of her children, and when she died.

I've also found a baptism for one of my rellies which it turns out was on FamilySearch all along, but the names were all so mangled that it didn't come up on any of my searches on there.

Oooooh I can't wait to get home to search for my Scottish/Irish Duffys, Bones and McKenzies etc

I will probably be disappointed but the anticipation is a nice feeling!

Not finding anything for any of mine but have found OH's ancestor's marriage in 1868 and thus her maiden name which is a start.

I don't think Kerry and Cork are very well covered in the RC records