Catholic Parish Registers Now Online
Quoting from the National Library of Ireland’s website: “The NLI microfilmed registers from the majority of Catholic parishes in Ireland and Northern Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s. Digital images from these microfilms are now freely available on the website: Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI.” You can access this website at http://registers.nli.ie/.
Because the Irish censuses for 1821–1891 were destroyed, very little information is available about ordinary Irish citizens during the 19th Century. In many cases these Catholic parish registers will provide the only record that documents the existence of ancestors who lived in Ireland during the 1800s. They are invaluable for your genealogy research, but—you need to know the name of the Catholic parish where your ancestors’ records were kept to access them. The sources below may help you discover the name of your relative’s parish if you do not know it already.
Where do you start when looking for Irish Catholic Church Records? FamilySearch!
Go to https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Ireland_Catholic_Church_Records for an excellent overview of research methods. Be sure to use all of the links given in the WIKI article.
Learn even more by watching webinars available at the FamilySearch Learning Center:
https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/results.html?fq=place%3A%22Ireland%22&resultListItem=0.
Then access the Irish Genealogy Toolkit website at http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/trace-family-history.html.
RESEARCH TIP: Handwriting styles in these parish registers range from beautiful penmanship to seemingly random scrawls decorated with ink blots and attempted erasures. If you need help reading the registers, go to the U.K. National Archives website and learn from: “Palaeography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500 – 1800,” at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/.
Ancestry.com has a similar course available at its website, and the "Teasure Maps—Online Genealogy Newsletter" webpage may help you, too: http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html.
Where do you start when looking for Irish Catholic Church Records? FamilySearch!
Go to https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Ireland_Catholic_Church_Records for an excellent overview of research methods. Be sure to use all of the links given in the WIKI article.
Learn even more by watching webinars available at the FamilySearch Learning Center:
https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/results.html?fq=place%3A%22Ireland%22&resultListItem=0.
Then access the Irish Genealogy Toolkit website at http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/trace-family-history.html.
RESEARCH TIP: Handwriting styles in these parish registers range from beautiful penmanship to seemingly random scrawls decorated with ink blots and attempted erasures. If you need help reading the registers, go to the U.K. National Archives website and learn from: “Palaeography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500 – 1800,” at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/.
Ancestry.com has a similar course available at its website, and the "Teasure Maps—Online Genealogy Newsletter" webpage may help you, too: http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html.
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