My grandfather was born somewhere in Ireland in 1882 approx when his father`s regiment was based there. I`ve contacted the regimental museum and they were based in several locations so I can`t pinpoint where he was born. What are my chances of being able to find a record of his birth, and what would be the best way of going about it?
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searching Irish records
- Thread starter jane k
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Jayell
master brummie
Jayne, I don't know if this will help or not, but it was sent a few months ago to a mailing list I belong to:
Tracing roots is to become much easier with the provision of an internet
site which aims to list all available records of births, deaths and
marriages from previous centuries.
The Irish Roots website (https://www.irish-roots.net/) will eventually hold
details of all church
records, which in some cases go back to the year 1600.
Already the website holds details of over 5.5m records of births, over
2.4m records of marriages, and over 1m deaths from that time period.
It is the culmination of 25 years' work by historians who have studied
every conceivable resource, from records of baptisms and marriages to
gravestone inscriptions.
The website was officially launched today on the Jeanie Johnston in Dublin by Arts Minister Seamus Brennan and Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
It is free to do a general search on the site, but a fee is payable for a
more detailed search thereafter.
The Irish Family History Foundation, which runs the website, says all money goes back into making the site bigger and better.
Judy
Tracing roots is to become much easier with the provision of an internet
site which aims to list all available records of births, deaths and
marriages from previous centuries.
The Irish Roots website (https://www.irish-roots.net/) will eventually hold
details of all church
records, which in some cases go back to the year 1600.
Already the website holds details of over 5.5m records of births, over
2.4m records of marriages, and over 1m deaths from that time period.
It is the culmination of 25 years' work by historians who have studied
every conceivable resource, from records of baptisms and marriages to
gravestone inscriptions.
The website was officially launched today on the Jeanie Johnston in Dublin by Arts Minister Seamus Brennan and Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
It is free to do a general search on the site, but a fee is payable for a
more detailed search thereafter.
The Irish Family History Foundation, which runs the website, says all money goes back into making the site bigger and better.
Judy
I have used these sites recently with a small modicum of success
https://www.ancestryireland.com/
https://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com/
And
https://www.emeraldancestors.com/
Dibs
https://www.ancestryireland.com/
https://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com/
And
https://www.emeraldancestors.com/
Dibs
C
Catkin
Guest
Jane, (put into your search bar)....... Children born within the armed forces...
You will need to sift through the sites. OR... one of those sites may point you in the right direction...Cat
You will need to sift through the sites. OR... one of those sites may point you in the right direction...Cat
bren
master brummie
THis site has just made available a lot of Irish records, click the link and scroll down --
https://www.familyrelatives.com/post_search.php
bren
https://www.familyrelatives.com/post_search.php
bren
C
Catkin
Guest
Jane, If you go to the Belfast forum, IT IS FREE TO JOIN... once in scroll down centre post for Mary lennon she is doing history on WW1 and WW11 and may be able to tell you the procedure as to registrations of children born to Serving armed forces during the period of time which you are looking for...Cat