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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: HugoBeauchamp on Saturday 24 January 09 08:33 GMT (UK)
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At long last!
The Irish BMD Indexes, transcribed by many volunteers, are now on the LDS Record Search Pilot site at
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=2;t=searchable
Worth the wait!
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Hi HB
Thanks for the link, have added it to my favourites. Hopefully I will be able to find heaps of my Irish ancestors.
jericho
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Hi HB,
Have added to my favourites, had a quick nosey and found my granny, will have fun looking for the rest of my rellies.
Thanks for the link.
Cheers
KHP :)
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Yes I've been checking this daily and found to my joy this morning they are there!!
A word of warning about birth registrations. I've been looking for my mother and her 8 siblings and there was a tendency cerrtainly back in the 1920s and 1930s to register the births quite a long time after the event (a year or more sometimes) so if you know a date of birth and think there is no record you need to widen the years you are looking at.
Good luck everyone in your searching.
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Well that was fun! :)
I have found my grandmother's birth and marriage and various other events, but I still have not found the birth of my grandmother's half sister. She could have been registered with her mother's name, but I have no idea what that was! :-\
Does anyone know if things will be changed when the site is 'up' properly and not still a pilot?
eg spouse's names for marriages
mothers surname for births
Kooky
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The early birth indexes did not record the mother's surname- it was only later that the mother's maiden name was added to the indexes and I can't see anywhere on the site that anything other than the information from the actual registers will be added to the site.
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Yesterday the Family search site added their indexed registrations for Ireland for 1845 to 1958.
Happy searching!!
CL
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Thank you. Thought that might be the case!
Kooky
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if you click on 'What is a Pilot' at the top of the page it reads:
"Record Search is still under development. This release is considered a PILOT. This means that at times Record Search will not be available while we add additional records and improve some features. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We look forward to receiving your feedback."
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At least there are some deaths, which are not usually found in IGI.
Kooky
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FamilySearch has added searchable Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 to its Pilot site:
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=2;t=searchable
Regards, M.
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Now I have found some deaths I have been looking for for YEARS, where is the best place to send for the certs?
I have usually written to the Dublin GRO, but on perusing the info available, I'm thinking I should be writing to Roscommon.
Can someone advise?
Kooky.
I know this is not strictly on topic, but others may find the answer useful. :-\
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its great mews but i am interested to know if this is a partial release as there appears to be sizable gaps ?
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I've noticed some gaps as well, but I believe it is a pretty good start. Although they claim no images I have found some.
CL
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what images are you reffering to? the indices? i have found one for each of my associated searches
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Have been trying this evening for Irish BMD but they seem to have vanished or is it just me
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Says there's a technical problem at the moment when you try to search the civil indexes. Hopefully it will be back to normal soon- just keep trying.
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FamilySearch issued a press release earlier today announcing the Irish collection, along with many others. I suspect demand has probably overwhelmed the site, so hopefully this is just a glitch. It's been down since at least 3.00pm today.
Chris
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I contacted FS - the engineers were working on the site, hence why the collection was offline for a while, but it is now up and running again.
Chris
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Hi all,I have found lots of new information on the
pilot site, but when I looked for a birth for Esther Smyth/Smith
who I knew from her marriage cert(liverpool) and the 1911
irish census was born in dublin about 1874 or 1875 there was
only one who seemed to fit,(born 1874) the details for this birth
state -Esther Cathcart- Smith born south dublin.I thought if this is
the right Esther it would make her family easier to track and these
names together bring up lots of results.trouble is if the indexes are
not complete yet I could end up chasing the wrong family as the cathcart
surname has not appeared on the 3 documents I have so far. maybe its
best to put this one on hold for now.
Anne :-\
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New topic for search tips started here:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=357532.new#new
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Regarding the images, I have found indexed birth details for my grandmother and others in the early 1900s Belfast. One can then order the corresponding certs.
CL :D
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The BMD service is great, if not rather inconsistent n respect of 'search' criteria & results.
One feature that would be a significant aid to the user would be the facility to download data 'bursts' i.e the data that supports a given search request definition. This would make the searching of marriages where one parties name is unknown as the data would allow the user to run a simple search / comparison query to match on the Vol, Page & index details, thereby ensuring a perfect (almost...) match and in seconds rather than trawling for hours through potential matches.
I have contacted the site to see if such a service is planned or possible - i may not be too optimistic but it would be a significant facility as i believe i could match a number of currently elusive marriages within minutes.... heres wishing
Marc
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Hi All
I have been on the Pilot Search site and found loads of Aunts, Uncles and Cousins in Ireland and Its great thank you all very much Rootschatters for all the help and information that you give out,
Kind Regards Manus
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Hi All,
Thank you, thank you, thankyou ;D for posting about this site. I have finally found evidence that my g grandfather actually existed :D ... tho he's marrying someone else :o
Adrianne