IrishGenealogy.ie: latest on next tranche of uploads

The free site is managed by the Department
of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Some eleven weeks on from my last blogpost about the (slow) progress of the state-managed project to complete or at least update the GRO's civil birth, marriage and death registers collection, I thought it time to check with the powers-that-be that the 'November or thereabouts' upload was still on course.

Apart from anything else, I thought it might make a happy piece of news to kick off this year's Back To Our Past show, which will be opening its doors this morning in Dublin.

Sadly, I have no such news. Here's the official line:' The GRO confirms that it is still working on a further tranche of records but is unable to confirm when it will be in a position to transfer these records to the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for uploading to www.irishgenealogy.ie.'

Maybe it's the pessimist in me, but I got the distinct impression that if this project isn't unofficially on hold, it's certainly not got a lot of momentum behind it.

I hope I'm wrong, but I fear we may not be getting any sizeable upload this year.