Searching For Irish Ancestors?

Origins.net used to be the major source of key Scottish and English genealogical data on the web, but now their data reaches across the British Isles with a new service which allows users to search their Irish ancestors on Irish Origins

One of the major problems in beginning Irish family history research, is knowing where to look for material as many Irish records were lost in the 1922 fire at Four Courts in Dublin. There are a number of sites on the net containing highly valuable datasets such as birth, marriage and death records, but knowing where to look for sites containing this data is often a difficult task for family history researchers.

Irish Origins allows users to search for free across 20,000 Irish genealogy web pages, containing 1.5 million names, including census data, Griffith’s valuations, ships’ passenger lists, church records, convict records and more. Also included on Irish Origins are links on how to find useful information including Irish source archives, discussion group, with articles and tutorials to follow shortly. By entering in a surname, and any other relevant information such as year, place of birth, residence, our search engine will link you directly to sites where that name and information appears.

Access is entirely free as we do not hold any primary data ourselves, but a comprehensive searchable index to data from other sites. The ‘suggest a site’ feature allows visitors to add any Irish genealogy sites to our search facility and enable Irish Origins to become the first point of reference for our Irish researchers.
 

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