TRACING YOUR ROOTS:
If you are able to visit Ireland to do your own research, you will
discover that the necessary records, documents and registries are to be
found in many different archives, not only in the same city.
However, the principal archives are:
The National Archives, in Dublin. This now includes the Public Record
Office of Ireland and the State Paper Office.
Numerous collections of private papers, government records, census
returns, wills, etc can be inspected there.
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, in Belfast. The vast
amount of records held are much too numerous to list here. They include:
Census returns, private papers, minutes of various bodies, other
official records, and copies of church and school registers.
The General Registrar's Office, in Dublin. You will find here registers
of all births, deaths and marriages in Ireland after 1864.
Civil registration of Marriages, other than Roman Catholic, started on 1
April 1845.
Registrar General's Office, in Belfast. Registers of births and deaths
since 1864 are held. Marriage records are available here from 1922.
If, for personal reasons, you are not able, or do not wish to visit
Ireland, just now, you could arrange a genealogical search on a fee-
paying basis.
Please contact me direct, if you require more details about this.
--
John Caughey (c) 1998
john(a)caughey.demon.co.uk