Updated GRO

googled eyes · 23-06-2014 5:25pm #1

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

Jellybaby1 · 23-06-2014 7:54pm

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

Waitsian · 23-06-2014 8:45pm

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

pinkypinky · 23-06-2014 8:50pm

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.

shanew · 23-06-2014 10:01pm

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

L1011 · 24-06-2014 9:00am

It should go newer than 1958 also.

pinkypinky · 24-06-2014 9:23am

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.

L1011 · 24-06-2014 10:32am

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.

pinkypinky · 24-06-2014 10:40am

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!!

L1011 · 24-06-2014 11:37am

pinkypinky wrote: »

Would that our crowd was as organised as that!!

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

pinkypinky · 03-07-2014 9:15am

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.

shanew · 03-07-2014 9:29am

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.

Jellybaby1 · 03-07-2014 10:21am

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

Hermy · 03-07-2014 10:24am

They obviously have no idea how impatient I am!

Jellybaby1 · 03-07-2014 10:26am

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

desbrook · 03-07-2014 10:56am

What web address will the updated index be on guys ?

Waitsian · 03-07-2014 11:09am

desbrook wrote: »

What web address will the updated index be on guys ?

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

desbrook · 03-07-2014 11:20am

mod9maple wrote: »

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

Thought so ...Thanks

CassieManson · 03-07-2014 11:22am

desbrook wrote: »

Thought so ...Thanks

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!

Hermy · 03-07-2014 11:25am

CassieManson wrote: »

...dead ends...

Good pun!:D

CassieManson · 03-07-2014 11:30am

Hermy wrote: »

Good pun!:D

Not to be taken literally of course!

Ponster · 03-07-2014 11:33am

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

Waitsian · 03-07-2014 11:39am

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.

L1011 · 03-07-2014 11:44am

Anyone know what time the media launch is at?

Ponster · 03-07-2014 11:55am

Sorry. I hadn't spotted that others had asked the exact same question already today

desbrook · 03-07-2014 11:55am

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

Hermy · 03-07-2014 12:05pm

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

pinkypinky · 03-07-2014 12:10pm

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

PS4FORLOSERS · 03-07-2014 12:15pm

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

desbrook · 03-07-2014 12:54pm

12.52 and not an ancestor in the tree washed !!

L1011 · 03-07-2014 12:57pm

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

CassieManson · 03-07-2014 12:59pm

desbrook wrote: »

12.52 and not an ancestor in the tree washed !!

Getting the impression that I am not the only one waiting for this!

Just looked at Clare Santry's original blog entry on this topic. She states that she has been invited to the launch this evening. So there may not be any updates on line until later this evening..can't wait.

Rox_88 · 03-07-2014 1:25pm

They've done it

L1011 · 03-07-2014 1:26pm

Rox_88 wrote: »

They've done it

*web server explodes under load*

edit: Actually, it maybe has exploded already: http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

edit2: Its there under the search page but has Daniel McGarry hard-coded in as the search term. You can enter your own search after that. Marriages show both partners after a certain date, not sure when yet.

Ponster · 03-07-2014 1:37pm

MYOB wrote: »

*web server explodes under load*

CAn there really be that may people who know of the launch and that would be interested in searching to the extent that we could crash the server? Seems very last century

L1011 · 03-07-2014 1:38pm

Ponster wrote: »

CAn there really be that may people who know of the launch and that would be interested in searching to the extent that we could crash the server? Seems very last century

Its running very slowly on a gigabit connection here.

The filtering is horrendous, it doesn't reset when you change names.

Ponster · 03-07-2014 1:38pm

The civil records link on the first page leads to http://testchurchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

Ponster · 03-07-2014 1:46pm

Horrendous web design - search results section and results presentation look like something I might have done in 1996.

I don't mind the searching so much but it's difficult to filter through the results in an efficient way.

The better news is that I'm getting birth results until Dec 1995

Coolnabacky1873 · 03-07-2014 1:46pm

They cover births up to the early 1980s anyway as I just found my own index in there!

L1011 · 03-07-2014 1:49pm

Whoever did the transcriptions varied between sloppy - I've found a "honora" as "hanora" and a "yvonne" as "yuonne" (I have both certs on paper) to scarily determined - there's a mothers maiden name transcribed correctly when I never figured it out from the paper cert.

Births for some eras at least have the real DOB rather than the quarter which is a huge boost for finding further records on Ancestry or similar.

Coolnabacky1873 · 03-07-2014 1:52pm

The changing face of Irish society.

Party 1 Name Murphy Nwanta
Party 2 Name Marta Kowalska
Date of Event 16 November 2007
Group Registration ID 1560502
SR District/Reg Area Kilkenny

Genealogist in 100 years will be asking what country they can trace their immigrant ancestors to!

Coolnabacky1873 · 03-07-2014 1:53pm

If you are tweeting, I started a hashtag: #IrishBMDindexes

L1011 · 03-07-2014 1:54pm

Coolnabacky1873 wrote: »

They cover births up to the early 1980s anyway as I just found my own index in there!

My exact uncommon but not unique name is showing births to 1994 and marriages to 2012; I'm going out on a limb to guess that everything is up to the 2013 mentioned on the search box. Huge benefit for those trying to chase down more missing lines.

Ponster · 03-07-2014 1:59pm

"Mother's Birth Surname" i.e. maiden name doesn't seem to be included for pre-1900 births. I'll see if I can get a more accurate date.

googled eyes · 03-07-2014 2:01pm

It's awful slow. But I guess thats to be expected, launch day etc

Coolnabacky1873 · 03-07-2014 2:04pm

Ponster wrote: »

"Mother's Birth Surname" i.e. maiden name doesn't seem to be included for pre-1900 births. I'll see if I can get a more accurate date.

Yeah, that only started in 1903 (I think that's the year)

L1011 · 03-07-2014 2:05pm

Starting to give 500 errors from load.

Coolnabacky1873 · 03-07-2014 2:05pm

Dang, just got my first crash while searching

desbrook · 03-07-2014 2:09pm

Think it's crashed

PS4FORLOSERS · 03-07-2014 2:10pm

desbrook wrote: »

Think it's crashed

Yeah just a server error there while searching

Ponster · 03-07-2014 2:15pm

Looks like the 5 of us managed to crash it

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