Irish updates and additions on Ancestry

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has updated its Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958 database at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2572, though there is no indication as to how.

In addition, two new third party indexes to online Irish based collections have been added to the site:

Web: Ireland, Wills of Irish Soldiers Who Died in the British Army, 1897-1922
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70789

This is effectively a third part index to the irish Soldiers Wills collection as found on the national Archives of Ireland's genealogy collections website at The National Archives of Ireland, at http://soldierswills.nationalarchives.ie/search/sw/home.jsp

Web: Ireland, Trade Directory, 1931
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70782

This is a collection originally found on Dr. Jane Lyons' From Ireland.net website at http://www.from-ireland.net/trade-directory/?pg=1

Chris

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From Ireland adds 14,000 gravestone images

I've received the following from Irish genealogist Jane Lyons in Ireland, concerning her From Ireland website project (www.from-ireland.net), first established in 2001:

In the last few weeks we have loaded 14000+ Irish church & gravestone photographs to from-ireland, we have also included 25 albums of views of areas around the country.

My albums include the following:

• 42 albums for Kilkenny county = 4,616 photographs
• 49 Albums for Laois or Queen's Co. = 6774 photographs
• 25 albums for counties from Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kildare, Limerick and Offaly. = 2,626 photographs
• 25 albums of miscellaneous views of places in Ireland.

My photo index can be found at:
www.from-ireland.net/grave-transcriptions/all#display
and my photographs at:
www.from-ireland.net/photographs/index.php

I believe that this is the largest collection of freely available easily accessible Irish Gravestone photographs in the world and it is probably 1/2 my collection. It is our intention to add the rest of my collection to the web. My website also includes transcriptions of parish records amongst other things.

Comment: This is a great site from Ireland, with lots of real gems - have a good play with it!

Chris


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