The Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) has added 11,000 entries its Early Irish Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, bringing the number of names in the three databases so far to 278,334.
The data is drawn from Irish newspapers, which are full of references to ordinary folk, from farmers to clerks, including what may be the only existing records of death before civil registration of deaths began in Ireland in 1864. Project leader Roz McCutcheon and her team plan to add much more data extracted from Irish newspapers; full story in the News section of the IGRS website at www.irishancestors.ie
IGRS marriages indexes are free to all, and non-members can carry out namesearches in the birth and death indexes on the society’s website.