Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations

[eadaoin]

and Mozilla works fine as a browser.

eadaoin

[sandiego04]

I have read that births that were at sea and births to Irish parents abroad, were recorded in the Irish BMD General Registry.  Are these births part of the main index or is there a separate index to these 'special' births?  Thank you.

[eadaoin]

they're at the end of each book - don't know up to what date they did this.

eadaoin

[shanew147]

see this page on the GRO website, for details they hold on births at sea, abroad etc.. http://www.groireland.ie/research.htm

I believe they are listed at the back of each index book as eadaoin mentioned. Some of the books also have addendums and late registration entries at the back.


Shane

[sandiego04]

Bless you both for the explanations.  Next step: I live in the U.S., how do I find someone in Dublin to hire to search the indexes for me?

[eadaoin]

what dates, names are you looking for?

I'm hoping to look at births 1903-1927 over the next 4-6 weeks (for probably the 75th time!!) .. I don't mind having a look at the end of the books each time. But it won't be very fast.
(and if real life, as in impending grandchild, gets in the way, I may have to abandon family history for a bit!)

eadaoin

[sandiego04]

 I very much understand how life activities pre-empt the plans we make   My own family history research has been put on hold several times over the years.  I am looking for the birth of Thomas Joseph Royce (or spelling variations).  The actual birthdate is 21 Jan.  The year range is 1872-1877.  I have gathered every U.S. record on him that I can find.  Each one is a little different on his age at the time of the record.  Each record states that he was born in Ireland, parents Irish.  He first shows up on the U.S. 1900 Census, single,age 25, stating that he immigrated in 1878. I have not found the birth entry in the standard General Registry index.  I would much appreciate a more in depth search. Thanks.

[Taidquest]

Hi all,while reading through this topic about births etc at sea
I happened to have the L.D.S pilot search box open so decided
to put 'At Sea' instead of place and did'nt fill in any other search
term and was amazed to get 224 results.The few results I've
seen so far simply say "Birthplace. At Sea" but one result said
" Birthplace Atlantic Ocean".I'm going to try again with some
surnames and see what results I get,maybe thats where some
 of our missing ancestors have been hiding although so far it
 appears the records are american.
                                                            Anne

[sandiego04]

Thanks all! I am so glad to have found this Forum.  I can't even remember how I happened upon it but it has already been more helpful than years of posting on other message boards.