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  • #332
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Does anyone else find this box somehow archaic ?


    Adl6OhJ.png

    when I use series like Familysearch I'm sure that there are also T&Cs attached but I don't have to accept them in advance. It's not that I mind accepting the T&Cs, it's the appearance of the page to someone who isn't Irish that would seem bizarre IMO, quoting the exact piece of Irish law that I have to agree to comply with.


  • #333
    CassieManson
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭CassieManson


    Ponster wrote: »
    Does anyone else find this box somehow archaic ?


    Adl6OhJ.png

    when I use series like Familysearch I'm sure that there are also T&Cs attached but I don't have to accept them in advance. It's not that I mind accepting the T&Cs, it's the appearance of the page to someone who isn't Irish that would seem bizarre IMO, quoting the exact piece of Irish law that I have to agree to comply with.

    Yes it is mad. You can put in any name you like and it is accepted!


  • #334
    rxan90
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭rxan90


    CassieManson wrote: »
    Yes it is mad. You can put in any name you like and it is accepted!

    I would have been glad to give my real name and enter it into that form if it had meant I had access to all the records and not just 50,75,100 years ago :mad:


  • #335
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    In my excitement I entered the person I was searching for in that box!


  • #336
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    In my excitement I entered the person I was searching for in that box!

    I did the exact same thing today and I've used the site when it first came out.

    How many other people will do that same thing I wonder? :)


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  • #337
    BigCon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭BigCon


    dido2 wrote: »
    This link is working, http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/agreement.jsp

    I had been using an old saved link to it and it wasn't working but on going to the main website it works that way

    I keep getting a 404 message. The wait continues...


  • #338
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Clear your cache and go back to the first page after filling in the your name/tickbox page - working fine for me then.

    Matched marriages in 1903 (and possibly earlier) showing up - don't remember it being that far back originally?


  • #339
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Anyone yet discover anything missing? I have a 1915 birth I got either on FamilySearch or Ancestry but its not turning up on the GRO indexes. I'm still trying different spellings just in case but its an unusual name so I didn't expect to have any trouble with it. I have the reference anyway.


  • #340
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    1915 births are only 99 years ago so shouldn't be there. Should be opened at midnight on new years eve this year if they do it efficiently as the Scots do

    If there's other 1915 ones there then there's an issue!


  • #341
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,613 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    The problem with this 100/75/50 rule is that it's too restrictive. It's an index, and a larger index is available on familysearch.org. By all means, have the cert ordering online system* limited like this but we can view indexes (and order certs) in the GRO up to much more recently (1995?) I wouldn't be too optimistic about this site being updated each year with the next lot of records. That hasn't happened with the calendar of wills on the NAI site.

    I can't see myself making much use of the irishgenealogy.ie, simply because I'll have to do maths each time to work out if I can expect a particular record to be on their site. Most likely uses: checking a death between 1958-1965, checking a mother's birth surname between 1900-1920ish, after I've found them on familysearch or an exact date of marriage pre 1940, for certs I'm not prioritising.

    *If an online ordering system existed. :rolleyes:

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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  • #342
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,613 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Just doing some testing.

    Cannot find a birth in 1902, for which I have the birth cert. It's indexed on family search but no sign of it on irishgenealogy. I've tried "Dublin" as well as the 2 registration districts.

    https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FBKV-1YC

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #343
    KildareFan
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    Is this her?
    Name MARY LONG
    Date of Birth 26 June 1902
    Group Registration ID 7207197
    SR District/Reg Area Dublin
    Sex Female
    Mother's Birth Surname DUNNE

    The district is recorded as Dublin [not North or South]


  • #344
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,613 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Yes it is - but that didn't come up earlier when I was looking. I tried with just Mary and just Dublin. It's a bit of a pain to have to search 3 locations for Dublin.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #345
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    BigCon wrote: »
    I keep getting a 404 message. The wait continues...

    I do too. even after the cache clear and with 3 different browsers...

    What am I doing wrong?


  • #346
    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Ponster wrote: »
    I do too. even after the cache clear and with 3 different browsers...

    What am I doing wrong?

    at what stage do you see the 404 - the link I'm starting from is http://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie and it's been fine so far


  • #347
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Working for me too.


  • #348
    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Ponster wrote: »
    I do too. even after the cache clear and with 3 different browsers...

    What am I doing wrong?

    I've just seen a 404 - directly after the application page and checkbox. Hard Refreshes didn't clear, but clearing out part of the URL so that it just had civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie worked ok


  • #349
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Cheers, that did it for me!


  • #350
    Coolnabacky1873
    Registered Users Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Coolnabacky1873


    John Grenham's column this week is about gaps in the IrishGenealogy.ie version of the indexes
    http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/irish-roots-registrations-indexes-return-1.2178591


  • #351
    Boscod
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭Boscod


    One thing I've noticed when searching for Dublin marriages is, if you select Dublin South/North from the dropdown list of Civil Registration Districts, no results are returned, however if you use Dublin only they are. I wonder why this is.


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  • #352
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,613 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Further to John Grenham's column, I've done my own cross-reference for a surname I'm working on and found several more entries in on irishgenealogy.ie that are not in either familysearch or FMP (which should be the same). I also found a few more people through the mother's maiden name in the index. Many of the extra entries were for 1872, so I wonder was some part of that year missed by accident.

    Also, many people's middle names have been left out of the index on irishgenealogy.ie but are in the other two. This will mean a little bit more homework.

    So in short, it's definitely worth cross referencing all the sites.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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