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Title: Parish Records and Find My Past
Post by: dublin-nellie on Wednesday 10 February 16 20:01 GMT (UK)
Latest news from Find My Past:

" Last week at RootsTech, we were thrilled to announce the upcoming release of a massive collection of Irish records: Our 10 million Irish Catholic Parish Records will be released this March, becoming one of the most important of our many Irish collections. "

Great news!
Title: Re: Parish Records and Find My Past
Post by: hasta on Wednesday 10 February 16 22:39 GMT (UK)
Presuming this is the long anticipated name searchable version of the NLI parish records ?
If so, then WOW.
Brilliant News. :D
Title: Re: Parish Records and Find My Past
Post by: dublin-nellie on Monday 29 February 16 19:43 GMT (UK)
YAY!  It's tomorrow!

Index to Parish Records on FindMyPast from tomorrow.  Oh bliss, oh joy!!!

Also, free access to FindMyPast.ie from 1 - 7 March.
Title: Re: Parish Records and Find My Past
Post by: dermo on Tuesday 01 March 16 10:10 GMT (UK)
Eneclann say Findmypast are making the parish register indexes free to search forever and are making access to all their Irish records free from today until 9am on 8 March.
Title: Re: Parish Records and Find My Past
Post by: hasta on Tuesday 01 March 16 22:52 GMT (UK)
Also free on Ancestry for March - just had a look and they are live now.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/free-online-access-to-treasure-trove-of-irish-parish-records-1.2555672