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  • 23-06-2014 5:25pm
    #1
    googled eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭


    Some good news.

    Irish Genealogy News

    Claire Santry tweeted earlier the the updated GRO indexes should be available soon. With a launch date of July 3rd


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    #2
    Jellybaby1
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    We'll just have to wait and see what appears. I haven't received my invitation to the launch as yet! :D


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    #3
    Waitsian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    So how will this be better? What can we expect in terms of a search? I haven't really been following this. :o


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    #4
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I think they said a while ago that it would be an improved version of what's on familysearch with mothers' maiden names added retrospectively into the index back to 1903.

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    #5
    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    The GRO version should include the few sections missing from the FamilySearch version, also presumably a second go at the transcripts and and also hopefully provide a better district search. The FamilySearch version seems to get confused by searches involving districts that have the same name as a county - Cork, Wexford etc


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    #6
    L1011
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    It should go newer than 1958 also.


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    #7
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    MYOB wrote: »
    It should go newer than 1958 also.

    Well, this database was not compiled from the Familysearch microfilms, it was done afresh, so there's no reason to cut it off then, but I suspect they might leave it at a very similar date. One could make the argument for having deaths up to a much later period but for ease, they'll probably pick one cut-off date. Most people born in 1958 are still alive.

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    L1011
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Well, this database was not compiled from the Familysearch microfilms, it was done afresh, so there's no reason to cut it off then, but I suspect they might leave it at a very similar date. One could make the argument for having deaths up to a much later period but for ease, they'll probably pick one cut-off date. Most people born in 1958 are still alive.

    50 years rolling is a common cutoff date for genealogy access to DBs like this - ScotlandsPeople (which uses 100 for some, 50 for some etc) releases on 01/01 each year.


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    #9
    pinkypinky
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    MYOB wrote: »
    50 years rolling is a common cutoff date for genealogy access to DBs like this - ScotlandsPeople (which uses 100 for some, 50 for some etc) releases on 01/01 each year.

    Would that our crowd was as organised as that!!

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    L1011
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Would that our crowd was as organised as that!!

    I wouldn't wish them to be so bloody dear though!


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    #11
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I don't see anything new on the site yet - they must be holding back for the official launch time. Usually these things are hanging around on the site already on the day and then they just make a fuss at a certain point.

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    #12
    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    I've had a look round their IP address range also, and nothing definite showing up yet, but there are a few IP address they own giving no access, or a default server page.


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    #13
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Maybe they are enjoying watching us standing around, hopping from foot to foot! :D


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    #14
    Hermy
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    They obviously have no idea how impatient I am!

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    #15
    Jellybaby1
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    I hope its worth the wait. I'm sure we all want to find something new.


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    #16
    desbrook
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    What web address will the updated index be on guys ?


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    #17
    Waitsian
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    desbrook wrote: »
    What web address will the updated index be on guys ?


    http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ (I think...!)


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    #18
    desbrook
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    mod9maple wrote: »
    http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ (I think...!)

    Thought so ...Thanks :D


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    #19
    CassieManson
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    desbrook wrote: »
    Thought so ...Thanks :D

    Anybody found it yet? I have been waiting for this for so long, really hoping it will open up some dead ends in my research!


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    #20
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    CassieManson wrote: »
    ...dead ends...

    Good pun!:D

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    #21
    CassieManson
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭CassieManson


    Hermy wrote: »
    Good pun!:D

    Not to be taken literally of course!


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    #22
    Ponster
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    Do we have the actual link to the site that is due to go live today ? Is it www.irishgenealogy.ie?


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    #23
    Waitsian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    Ponster wrote: »
    Do we have the actual link to the site that is due to go live today ? Is it www.irishgenealogy.ie?


    That's what I'm assuming though I don't know for absolute sure. Could they surprise us all and design a whole new webpage for GRO indexes alone? I doubt it; it's a case of wait and see.


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    #24
    L1011
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    Anyone know what time the media launch is at?


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    #25
    Ponster
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    Sorry. I hadn't spotted that others had asked the exact same question already today :)


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    #26
    desbrook
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    There an error the page .... The Department of Arts , Heritage and the Gaeltacht is listed under "Useful" Links :D


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    #27
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Strange that it doesn't get a mention on the News and Updates page.

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    #28
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    It is on irishgenealogy.ie - still no idea of the timeframe.

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    #29
    PS4FORLOSERS
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    I would have imagined it would have been somewhere around Midday. Hopefully I can pull up some good information now


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    #30
    desbrook
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭desbrook


    12.52 and not an ancestor in the tree washed !!


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    #31
    L1011
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    Press conference is at 5:30. So don't get your hopes up, it could be tomorrow morning yet.


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