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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: kjmck on Friday 08 February 19 22:21 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
This is a general question, but are there no BMD records for Ireland (mainly birth) online from 1919 onwards like we have available for England & Wales?
Thanks,
Keelan
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Check out www.irishgenealogy.ie for births over 100 years, and they have marriage & deaths also, over 50 & 75 years respectively. Many of the older records have been digitised, so can be accessed free of charge.
For later indexes, check out family search, who have bmd indexes up to 1958 ( all Ireland to 1922, Republic of Ireland 1922-1958). Northern Ireland records from 1922 are separate, I'm sure someone will have information on those if that's relevant to you. Best wishes , frostyknight
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Hi,
This is a general question, but are there no BMD records for Ireland (mainly birth) online from 1919 onwards like we have available for England & Wales?
Thanks,
Keelan
There are NO actual BMD records available online for England & Wales that I am aware of, for either before or after 1919. For Ireland, BMD records ARE available, for free online, for variable time periods - incomparably better.
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you can search on Findmypast.ie up to relatively recently (2006) for the UK civil index of BMDs
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Bit of lost in translation going on here.
BMD index v BMD records
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The index is available up to 1958 for the 26 RoI counties on Familysearch
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347
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Hi All - for England & Wales there is free BMD. Birth indexes give the mothers maiden name, quarter of registration etc, marriages will give the spouse etc and deaths the quarter and place of registration, and a possible age at death, or a DOB. That's what I was wondering if there was anything similar available for Ireland. BMD's 1919 - present day, records or indexes.
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I haven't really been able to add to my research using the internet, for the time period 1919 - present. There doesn't seem to be much available.
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Ireland Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958
Description
An index of Ireland civil registration including
1864-1958 births,
1845-1958 marriages, and
1864-1958 deaths, but excluding index records for Northern Ireland after its creation in 1922.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1408347
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That's what I was wondering if there was anything similar available for Ireland. BMD's 1919 - present day, records or indexes.
See replies 1, 5 and 8. (edited)
I found names of my Irish cousins.
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and 8.... ;D
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I'm mainly asking for the period of the 1960's - as close to the present day as possible :)
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I'm mainly asking for the period of the 1960's - as close to the present day as possible :)
No, 1958 is the limit.
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I'm hoping someone can help with finding the birth record of someone born in Ireland. His name was Christopher Slattery born around 1937 and his father is named as Thomas. That's all the details I have. I have contacted the Dublin archives and one birth record in Ennis around the same date didn't match with the father. I'm thinking he may not have been born in Ireland and it's just a tale which has passed down in the family.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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I'm hoping someone can help with finding the birth record of someone born in Ireland. His name was Christopher Slattery born around 1937 and his father is named as Thomas. That's all the details I have. I have contacted the Dublin archives and one birth record in Ennis around the same date didn't match with the father. I'm thinking he may not have been born in Ireland and it's just a tale which has passed down in the family.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Births over 100 years will be available to view on Irish Genealogy website. For later ones you need to contact the archives as you've done. Did the Slatterys leave Ieeland and live elsewhere in later years? you could try Scotland's People (pay per view) if they moved to Scotland, FreeBMD is they went to England or Wales.
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Dublin archives
is the wrong terminology. For BMD's in England and Wales one consults the GRO indexes and images or orders certs from the GRO not eg The National Archives.
Similarly for the Republic you contact https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/143f25-about-the-general-register-office/
The General Register Office (Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora) is the central civil repository for records relating to births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and adoptions in Ireland.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/birth-family-relationships/getting-birth-marriage-or-death-certificate/
Presume above was who you contacted.
For the 6 counties of Northern Ireland before and after partition 1922 https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/introduction-groni-and-its-records but with all the pre-partition records also available free to search & view on Irishgen (apart from the outstanding deaths 1864-70).
The 1864-1958 BMD indexes transcribed by Familysearch as a volunteer project are also consultable on Ancestry and Findmypast (the post 1922 data being for the 26 counties only, no post 1 Jan 1922 BMD data is available online or offline anywhere apart from GRONI for Northern Ireland).
Apart from births after the 100 year cut-off ie 1924-1958, marriages 1949-58 and outstanding death images 1864-70 the old indexes, akin to FreeBMD in England and Wales, are to all intents and purposes obsolete having been superseeded by
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp as one can name search and view the actual image at the same time rather than the situation in England where one uses the GRO index info to purchase an image or paper cert.