10 BEST WEBSITES

Nicola shares her favourite free and subscription-based Irish resources

Ancestry

ancestry.co.uk £ Ancestry has many Irish records such as parish registers, census returns and indexes for civil registration, but some can be found free elsewhere.

Census of Ireland

census.nationalarchives.ie FREE This free website contains the complete 1901 and 1911 censuses of Ireland published by the National Archives of Ireland.

Findmypast

findmypast.co.uk £ The website offers a wide-ranging collection of Irish sources including court and prison records, trade directories and newspapers.

John Grenham

https://www.johngrenham.com £ Anyone researching Irish kin should benefit from the information on this website, including maps and a network of links to resources.

National Archives of Ireland

genealogy.nationalarchives.ie FREE You can find digitised shipping crew lists, calendars of wills and valuation office records here.

Catholic Parish Registers

registers.nli.ie FREE The National Library of Ireland site has images of 18th- and 19thcentury Catholic registers, organised according to the name of the parish.

FamilySearch

familysearch.org FREE Irish civil birth, marriage and death indexes 1864–1958 are here, plus brief transcripts of some early birth and marriage registrations.

Irish Genealogy

irishgenealogy.ie FREE This site has birth, marriage and death registers, plus some Catholic and Church of Ireland registers for Dublin, Kerry and Cork.

Irish Newspaper Archives

irishnewsarchive.com £ This website features an incomplete but growing collection of digitised newspapers from the 18th century up to the present day.

RootsIreland

rootsireland.ie £ RootsIreland contains indexed parish registers, civil records, census returns and other sources for nearly every county in Ireland.