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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: justshaza on Saturday 02 April 16 07:11 BST (UK)
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Hello, I have done Ancestry for the past couple of years, found a few family members, found this site and wham, more info i got off you lovely people in a question than years on Ancestry.
Contacted Ancestry and they said they dont have alot of info i needed and that they found info on other sites, with little info i gave them on my family. >:( So NO more Ancestry.
They suggested familysearch and a couple of others.
But my question is which site or sites are the best as i have all my family in Ireland and England.
People on this site are wonderful helpful people and thank you for all your help.
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I suspect it will be FindMyPast as they've put on a lot of Irish records recently
If you can narrow England down to which county(s) you're looking for, that would be helpful
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Always check what records a site contains BEFORE you subscribe or pay to view.
I suspect it will be FindMyPast as they've put on a lot of Irish records recently
If you can narrow England down to which county(s) you're looking for, that would be helpful
To do any Irish research you really need a location- parish if not actual townland- and the family's religion.
In the last few years lots of FREE Irish records have been put online so the pay sites may not be what you need at the moment.
Just a few examples-
Family Search has a collection of Irish records (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927084?region=Ireland) which includes civil registration index (index of births & deaths 1864-1958, marriages 1845/1864-1958)
1901 & 1911 census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/) (includes scanned images) as well as fragments of earlier years
Catholic Parish Registers (http://www.nli.ie/en/parish-register.aspx)- scanned images of the registers
More church records & civil records (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/)
Here on Rootschat there are resource sub-boards or topics for each Irish county as well as an Ireland Resources board.