Tips for searching Irish BMD civil registrations

[shanew147]

it does seem to work if you put at least a first name .. e.g. I tried for marriages for the name MARY in Co. Wexford in for the years 1866/67/68 and get over 1000 results in each case.

A blank name Co. Wexford marriage search for those years does seem to have a problem, and returns nothing except marriages from slightly later years - although this may be due to the sheer number of results.

I've a feeling that the number of results is restricted to ~5600 (25 per page / 224 pages) .. as I've never seen the number of results pages go above that.


Shane

[Leofric]

I've thought all along that the records are incomplete. I looked for the marriage of my grandparents Michael Saunders and Annette Myles in Dublin in Nov 1897, but neither name is brought up.

And I know that the the record exists in the Dublin GRO because I obtained the certificate there!

I did report it to the LDS but received a rather bureaucratic reply full of gobbledegook......

[Ms. Smokestoomuch]

I thought there was stuff missing when I joined in on this tread.

Now I think it's some problem with it pulling in certain years on the search.
 
It would surprise me really, if the odd cert didn't fall by the wayside.
I wouldn't expect no errors made in project so large.

For a moment, I thought love died in 1866 in Wexford.

[g forgeron]

I followed the link to "Ireland civil registration indexes 1845-1958", and the appropriate page came up. However no matter which name I put in it tells me that there is no one of that name registered for any event. Not even a  Patrick Murphy or a John Smith in all Ireland ?. What am I doing wrong ?

[aghadowey]

Wonder if it's an incompatability issue with your browser or something. I searched for Patrick Murphy and got 5,600 entries (think that's their maximum amount per search).

[g forgeron]

Thanks for the prompt reply, I use Mozilla Firefox as a browser , but to no avail. What web browser do you use?

[aghadowey]

I use Firefox as well and have no problems.
When you get the Irish civil registrations search page are you putting in just a first and last name or have you included other details (place, etc.)?

[TF13]

When you are typing in the location box just type Ireland and wait until the drop down box comes up, then click on Ireland, after that you can then use the filters to narrow down the search.

Dont know why it does it, always has, but if you type Ireland and then click search it comes up with virtually nothing.

Tony

[aghadowey]

If you are searching on the Irish civil registrations search page there's no need to put in Ireland but it is important to narrow down county by using 'place' on results page.
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=collectionDetails