Is it Still "Early 2019"?

[Jon_ni]

Amazing, wonder of wonders. I thought they would only release these after the Last Trumpet sounded.

You might be right and the Sunday Independent wrong.
So far only the additional year are there 1925 births, 1950 marriages and 1975 deaths and seems they were added at midnight.
The Home page coverage has not been modified (it and FAQ still say 1924 for births), and the News contains only last years about Christy O'Connor, Tom Clancy etc, nothing similar about Haughey's birth or De Valera's death https://irishgenealogy.ie/news

Edit: this years press announcement is there now and the home page coverage upper years changed (they missed the FAQ's).

[Wexflyer]

Amazing, wonder of wonders. I thought they would only release these after the Last Trumpet sounded.

You might be right and the Sunday Independent wrong.

Yes, they might be wrong. It says "now available" - and they aren't!

[CBGenealogy]

the official press release from the Dept says it too but they're all wrong.

Time to send another email!

[Jon_ni]

the official press release from the Dept says it too but they're all wrong

The official press release is wrong at the top and right at the bottom!

The records now available: Death records – 1864 to 1975
Ends - Press Office, The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Notes for Editors:
The records being launched are the Birth register entries for 1925, Marriage Register entries for 1950 and Death Register entries for 1975.
The years covered by the historic records of Births, Marriages and Deaths available are:
Deaths: 1871** to 1975
**The Civil Registration Service are currently working on updating the remaining records of Deaths dating back to 1864. These will be included in future updates to the records available on the website.

Same old statement.
Then you get Haughey's birth etc
https://irishgenealogy.ie/news/historic-records-of-charles-j-haughey-and-eamon-de-valera

[CBGenealogy]

That is such poor copyediting!

[Jon_ni]

same:
https://gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/press-releases/historic-records-of-charles-j-haughey-and-%C3%A9amon-de-valera-unveiled-online

Welcoming the release, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan TD, said:
“I’m sure this update will be met with eager anticipation by those engaged in genealogical research. With the addition of the new twelve months of records..."

Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary, TD, added:
“I am pleased to make a further year of records available..."

WesternPeople The records now available include: Deaths 1864-1975. Every year an additional year of birth, marriage, and death entries is added to the website.
Irish Times got it correct, by not stating the availability range. "State-run website has added new information on births, deaths and marriages for 1925, 1950 and 1975. An additional year of birth, marriage and death entries is added to the website annually."

[Wexflyer]

the official press release from the Dept says it too but they're all wrong

The official press release is wrong at the top and right at the bottom!

**The Civil Registration Service are currently working on updating the remaining records of Deaths dating back to 1864. These will be included in future updates to the records available on the website.

The Department should be commended on going above and beyond to save the tax payer money - by reusing wording from 2018, rather than having to form a working group and then a committee to hold hearings on any new wording, all at vast expense!

[Jon_ni]

"Please note that while death records from 1864–1970 are indexed on the website, the associated images are not yet available. These images remain with the General Register Office (GRO). The Department has informed the GRO that we will prioritise uploading these records to the Irish Genealogy website as soon as they are provided."
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/02/departmental-bunfight-in-ireland-over.html

As Chris says the 1864-1870 death indexes are not there. They were, until early October - reply #68 and https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=889249.msg7686348#msg7686348
Back on 7 Oct I got 122 deaths 1864-1870, now 1374 without images.

The Londonderry District search bug mentioned reply #55 in the latter has not been rectified (still produces results for all 5 districts in the County, which is annoying when you've tried to say you don't want to see any for Coleraine or Limavady).

27 results for Co. Derry BMD 1864-1921 and 18 results for Derry SR District need moved to 'Londonderry' to go with all the others and Derry removed.
As well as mentioning back in Oct (got a reply the introductory bugs had been fixed) I reported all those 18 individually as transcription errors on 15 December and entered Londonderry instead of Derry.
The 23 pre-1863 civil birth results are still there, all had corrections submitted.
Also submitted dates and pdf image links for 4 marriages and a birth with no dates or images indexed (had to put the url in the event type field, can find them using the District quarter page number of the old indexes).
Kept a record, wanted to see if reporting errors is worthwhile, seems it is not! If they aren't going to use then might as well do away with the Report an error in transcription option. GRONI are very efficient at checking and fixing within a week; E/W also fix. Both even feedback.

https://irishgenealogy.ie/view/?record_id=cimanf-1657140
https://irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1876/11179/8096117.pdf

https://irishgenealogy.ie/view/?record_id=cibinf-13370253
https://irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1920/01211/1503723.pdf

[Wexflyer]

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The Londonderry District search bug mentioned reply #55 in the latter has not been rectified (still produces results for all 5 districts in the County, which is annoying when you've tried to say you don't want to see any for Coleraine or Limavady).

You shouldn't be so specific with regard to (London)Derry. I get results from all SRD in Co. Wexford when searching for just Wexford SRD. Can't recall if this id for B, M, or D, or all three.