Leading family history site, Findmypast,
announced today at Rootstech that it will launch 10 million Irish
Catholic Parish Registers, one of the most important Irish record
collections, in March 2016.
Covering
over 200 years from 1671-1900 and over 1,000 parishes, Findmypast has
worked to transcribe the National Library of Ireland’s online image
collection of 3,500 baptism and marriage registers. This is the first
time that the collection has been indexed with the images linked online,
making the search much easier and the records more accessible. As a
result, family historians will now be able to make all important links
between generations with the baptism records and between families with
the marriage registers. These essential records cover the entire island
of Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
Ben Bennett, Executive Vice-President North America and International for Findmypast said:
“The
Irish Parish Registers will be a gold mine for anyone with Irish
heritage. The 10 million baptism and marriage records will help even
more people to trace their Irish ancestors. In addition to being able
to search this valuable collection, customers with family trees on
Findmypast will benefit from leads that automatically connect the
records related to their family directly to their trees. The Catholic
Parish Registers are a hugely important addition to Findmypast’s Irish
collection, the largest and most comprehensive source for online Irish
family history research.”
About Findmypast
Findmypast
(previously DC Thomson Family History) is a British-owned world leader
in online family history. It has an unrivalled record of online
innovation in the field and 18 million registered users across its
family of online brands, which includes Lives of the First World War,
The British Newspaper Archive and Genes Reunited, amongst others.
Its lead brand, also called Findmypast,
is a searchable online archive of over eight billion family history
records, ranging from parish records and censuses to migration records,
military collections, historical newspapers and lots more. For members
around the world, the site is a crucial resource for building family
trees and conducting detailed historical research.
In
April 2003, Findmypast was the first online genealogy site to provide
access to the complete birth, marriage, and death indexes for England
& Wales, winning the Queen’s Award for Innovation. Since that time,
the company has digitized records from across the globe, including major
collections from Britain, Ireland, Australia, and the United States.
Findmypast, in association with The National Archives, recently launched
the 1939 Register, a record of 41 million lives on the eve of World War
II. http://www.findmypast.com/
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