Tuesday 6 July 2021

TheGenealogist expands its Irish collection with RC parish registers

The Genealogist, a well-established commercial database best known for its British record collections, has added more than 75,000 million records this year alone. A relatively small number have been from Ireland, adding to an existing Irish collection of directories, wills, land owner and heraldry/pedigree records available only with a Diamond level subscription.

Last week saw a further expansion of the Irish collection, and it came in an unexpected form with the addition of some 230,000 Roman Catholic Parish Register records from County Carlow.

This is the first set of Irish church records in the database. Perhaps revealing the ambitions of the database owners, The Genealogist has quickly created an Irish Catholic Parish Record Collection for its new record-set. Unfortunately, I can't tell you years covered, nor which parishes are included, nor the source of the records.

Also released were five editions of directories published by Alexander Thom, as follows: Thom's Official Directory of the UK and Ireland, 1859, 1898 and 1913, plus Thom's Official Directory of Ireland, 1934 and 1941. These are held in the Trade, Residential and Telephone Directories collection.

Please see below the full Irish collection available at TheGenealogist:

  • RC parish records, County Carlow
  • Irish Wills, 1536 - 1810
  • Dublin Almanac 1846 
  • Thom's Official Directory of the UK and Ireland, 1859 
  • Landowners of Ireland, 1876 
  • Irish Pedigrees 1887 
  • Irish Pedigrees 1888 
  • Thom's Official Directory of the UK and Ireland, 1898 
  • UK Telephone Directory, 1899-1900 
  • Kelly's Directory, Belfast,1905 
  • Kelly's Directory, Connaught, 1905 
  • Kelly's Directory, Leinster, 1905 Kelly's Directory, Munster, 1905 
  • Kelly's Directory, Ulster, 1905
  • Dublin Directory, 1910 
  • Thom's Official Directory of the UK and Ireland, 1913
  • Belfast and Ulster Directory, 1926 
  • Ireland Directory, 1927 
  • Ireland MP's Directory, 1927 
  • Ireland Trade Directory, 1927 
  • Alumni Dublineneses 1593-1846 
  • Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Examinations Held in 1889 Pass Lists, Boys 
  • Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Examinations Held in 1892 Pass Lists, Boys 
  • Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Exhibition and Prize Lists, 1889 
  • Intermediate Education Board for Ireland, Exhibition and Prize Lists, 1890 
  • Rathmines School Roll, 1858-1899 
  • The Irish Guards in the Great War Vol I 1914-1918 
  • The Irish Guards in the Great War Vol II 1915-1918
  • The Report Of The President Of Queen's College Belfast 1896-1897 
  • Thom's Official Directory of Ireland, 1934 
  • Who's Who and Industrial Directory of the Irish Free State 1935 
  • Thom's Official Directory of Ireland, 1941

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