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FindMyPast to relase 21 million Birth, Death and Marriage Records on 24th Jan

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    #2
    eqwjewoiujqorj
    Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭eqwjewoiujqorj


    Claire Santry has updated her blog

    http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.ie/2013/01/irish-civil-registration-records-live.html

    The FMP.ie records are actually available online now.

    I'm not a subscriber so I don't know how different the records are compared to Family Search.

    It does seem you can see potential spouses when searching for marriage records.

    As Claire says:
    By potential, I mean the names of other bride/grooms on adjacent register pages.
    For example, if I search for Katie Santry's marriage in 1907 in Clonakilty,
    the transcript tells me that her spouse was one of four men: Daniel Driscoll, Lawrence Keohane, Michael Moxley, Timothy O'Regan.

    To find out which one, you'd have to obtain a copy of the marriage certificate, using her name and the references provided (in this case: Clonakilty Q1 1907, Vol 5, Page 55). Since I already have her certificate, I know it was Daniel Driscoll that she married.


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    shanew
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    Sounds to me like the same copy of the Index that Ancestry purchased from FamilySearch/LDS.

    As far as I remember the index books created at the time only included mother's maiden name for births from the late 1920s on, and the earlier details were added later by GRO staff. I suspect the FMP.ie records will have the same details as the free edition on FamilySearch - but with the additional marriage cross-match feature as added by Ancestry.


    Shane


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    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    shanew wrote: »
    I suspect the FMP.ie records will have the same details as the free edition on FamilySearch - but with the additional marriage cross-match feature as added by Ancestry.


    And I can confirm this. there's nothing new added that you can't already get on Familysearch.org
    In fact at the end of the result page it says "copyright Family Search"


    (btw, I forgot to cancel my trial subscription with FMP. If anyone wants a worthless account then let me know...)


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,631 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I think this addition (though available free elsewhere) does mean that FMP now trumps Ancestry and Origins as the best record set for Irish ancestors.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    Coolnabacky1873
    Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Coolnabacky1873


    Agreed Pinky.

    And to think what a nice little earner it could have been for the Irish Govt if they had gotten into the game early and followed the ScotlandsPeople model :(


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    L1011
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    Coolnabacky1873 wrote: »
    Agreed Pinky.

    And to think what a nice little earner it could have been for the Irish Govt if they had gotten into the game early and followed the ScotlandsPeople model :(

    Eventual plan from the National Archives seems to be to offer similar to what ScotlandsPeople has, but for free. Which is a far better option. Two censuses free, third free in a while, parish records free as they get them.


    A heavily migration transient family means that ScotlandsPeople has emptied my wallet quiet effectively - particularly as a lot of it happened around the 1911 census time and I've got a common enough surname. Although not as much as the IFHF have for the parish records that they seem to have the only digital copy of...


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