The government of the Republic of Ireland has uploaded images of all historic vital civil registration records on its Irish Genealogy (www.irishgenealogy.ie) platform - that is births over 100 years old, marriages over 75 years old and deaths over 50 years old. The images have been appended to the previously available index search facility on the site, which now allows a final option to step through to see the record itself - and not just the record, but the whole page on which the record of interest is found, which can be downloaded in PDF format. Note the official launch is not due until tomorrow (Thurs), so this is a wee bit of an early access bonus.As well as images from what now constitutes the Republic of Ireland, incredibly, this release seems to include records for Northern Ireland also, as I am finding a few entries from Belfast in my test searches - if so, I can imagine there may be some annoyed folk at the GRO in Belfast, which operates the pay to use GENI website at https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk.
I'll have a bit of a play, and come back with a review later. Some records are showing up as not yet being available on searches. But what a day for Irish genealogy!
NB: For further Irish research sources, don't forget my books Irish Family History Research Online (2nd ed), and Discover Irish Land Records - see my books section at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html for how to purchase in the UK, US, Australia and Canada, as well as by ebook.
Chris
For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.
