Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Ancestry adds two indexes of obituaries and marriages from Ireland

Ancestry has added two new collections of records of potential use to Irish and British genealogists.

They are:

UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current. This is an index of obituaries published in the Newspapers.com database. It holds only basic details. You need a Newspapers.com subscription to view the full published obituary. There are 40,971 entries from newspapers published in Antrim (21,363) and Dublin (19,608).

All UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current Results. This is an index of marriage announcements published in the Newspapers.com database. It holds only basic details. You need a Newspapers.com subscription to view the full published announcement. The index holds 18,460 entries from newspapers published in Ireland, 7,414 published in Antrim titles, 11,046 in Dublin titles.