GRO Records

JDERIC2017 · 05-04-2019 2:22pm

pinkypinky wrote: »

I was doing a random wide-ranging search and there was an 1869 image, so I did a wider search for any marriage anywhere in 1869 and there were lots of images, but not all.
I'd say they're testing.

I think they are teasing us

Hermy · 05-04-2019 2:48pm

Claire Santry's take on the latest development:

No, they are not online yet, but there is some technical testing being carried out in preparation for an upload.
This may mean some small batches of records that you wouldn't expect to be online yet may appear in search results.

josip · 05-04-2019 3:31pm

My birth record will be searchable by the time they finish this I think.

Hermy · 05-04-2019 4:02pm

It's a toss up between the GRO and Brexit as to who finishes first!

shar01 · 04-06-2019 5:21am

It's Chriiiistmaaaaas! According to the Irish Times the latest tranche of records to be released today. Marriages from 1864 and deaths up to 1968.

JDERIC2017 · 04-06-2019 8:08am

Excellent, that news will get me through the working day.....

quartz1 · 04-06-2019 8:19am

Claire Santry hasnt update her Blog yet on the Release

MAGZERFLOOD · 04-06-2019 8:43am

From the Journal.ie

Hermy · 04-06-2019 8:45am

So six months late they deliver half of what was promised...:D

pinkypinky · 04-06-2019 9:05am

Claire has it up now.

That's great news.

I need to rest up an injury and now I have a perfect excuse. I already have a list of expected marriages and births for those years.

JDERIC2017 · 04-06-2019 9:07am

https://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2019/06/irishgenealogyie-updates-its-online.html

pinkypinky · 04-06-2019 9:20am

Ha, they still haven't updated the banner with the message about new records in early 2019!!

pinkypinky · 04-06-2019 9:23am

The very first one I looked up has an index reference for a 1918 but no image.

Hermy · 04-06-2019 9:34am

pinkypinky wrote: »

The very first one I looked up has an index reference for a 1918 but no image.

You might be able to work around that if you search the indexes and find another record from the same page or one with a similar page number.

pinkypinky · 04-06-2019 9:37am

Yes, I'll give that a try after I get all the others on my list. Typically, it's the only one of a person I'd actually met - my great-aunt.

Hermy · 04-06-2019 10:04am

pinkypinky wrote: »

The very first one I looked up has an index reference for a 1918 but no image.

Just found myself in the same boat - born late 1918 so registered early 1919 - hence no image!

oceanclub · 04-06-2019 10:24am

Yup I can see the image for my great-grandfather civil marriage cert from 1867 is finally available.

BUT

images still missing; for example, I just checked death records from the 1870s, none have images.

P.

pinkypinky · 04-06-2019 12:32pm

oceanclub wrote: »

BUT images still missing; for example, I just checked death records from the 1870s, none have images.

P.

They weren't included in the update - deaths from 1879 still.

pinkypinky · 04-06-2019 10:01pm

Website very slow. Must be getting slammed.

Jellybaby1 · 04-06-2019 10:10pm

So slow. I've got a headache waiting for the page to open. I'm going to leave it for a few days and hope it will settle down.

VirginiaB · 04-06-2019 11:51pm

Yes, very slow. I will also wait a few days. But I'm also a bit disappointed about the early deaths not done yet. That is my primary search period. Still, it's a great gift for many.

Deja Boo · 05-06-2019 7:04am

Will images be added at some time?

pinkypinky · 05-06-2019 9:06am

We can only presume so...

They very under-resourced and not a priority. Think about the fact that we're only getting 2017's release now (albeit with 2018's).

The early marriages and deaths are important but we can still access them the old-fashioned way. I have a list of all the BMDs I need to get (constantly updated) and pay for the ones that are important.

Hermy · 05-06-2019 9:52am

Something else I wish they'd do is put the search box that you enter the names into at the top of the page instead of below the long list of reg districts. Makes no sense to have the primary piece of information demoted to third place.

p15574 · 06-06-2019 8:41am

Hermy wrote: »

Something else I wish they'd do is put the search box that you enter the names into at the top of the page instead of below the long list of reg districts. Makes no sense to have the primary piece of information demoted to third place.

And get rid of the initial captcha and name entry on first search. Does anyone actually enter their own name? I think "a a" has done most of my searches. If they really wanted names they should make you have an account and sign in before being allowed to search.

Hermy · 06-06-2019 9:24am

Yes, it would have made far more sense to have people sign into an account rather than the half-hearted sign-up they provided instead.
Though by signing into your Gmail account you can at least avoid the dreaded Captcha.

pinkypinky · 06-06-2019 11:20am

How does the gmail help? I'm always signed into my gmail account but still have the captcha.

Hermy · 06-06-2019 2:49pm

When I click the I Am Not A Robot bit while logged into Gmail it bypasses the Captcha altogether.

srmf5 · 06-06-2019 4:59pm

Hermy wrote: »

When I click the I Am Not A Robot bit while logged into Gmail it bypasses the Captcha altogether.

Interesting. I hadn't realised that was the reason why I no longer had to solve the Captcha. I've always been logged into Gmail while using the website since the civil records were available. In the early days I did need to always solve the Captcha but it hasn't been necessary for a long time. I thought that it may have been related to IP address or something like that but I tried searching on a different browser and it made me solve the Captcha so you seem to be right.

pinkypinky · 06-06-2019 11:39pm

I feel cheated! I'm always logged in!

JDERIC2017 · 03-07-2019 1:33pm

Hi all, has anyone ever contacted irishgenealogy.ie if you find a record and the name of the person and details is not on the scanned record if you know what i mean.

Record link below when i download image, that name is not on it. I have reported the issue but never hear anything back. thanks.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/e294a15517883?b=https%3A%2F%2Fcivilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie%2Fchurchrecords%2Fcivil-perform-search.jsp%3Fnamefm%3DElizabeth%26namel%3DBudds%26location%3D%26yyfrom%3D1911%26yyto%3D1917%26type%3DD%26submit%3DSearch

Hermy · 03-07-2019 2:07pm

Have you located the correct image?

It's page 465 but they link to page 463.

JDERIC2017 · 03-07-2019 2:15pm

Thank you Hermy

kanadams123 · 23-08-2019 1:07pm

Hi all,
Is anyone planning to visit the GRO research room on Werburgh Street today or next week?
I need to have a birth date in 1966 checked out for a friend. It won't require a photocopy as I'm sure the birth date is noted in the index pages.
I would really appreciate it if you'll be there. I can PM the details if you let me know.
Thanks

crossman47 · 11-09-2019 8:45pm

Is anyone having a problem with irishgenealogy.ie today. I can't get up the usual search page that allows you put in a name, reg district and year range?

yaledo · 11-09-2019 9:11pm

There was an outage earlier this evening. It recovered. It is gone again.

This is the 3rd time in the last month that I've seen an outage (I never saw one before).

pinkypinky · 11-09-2019 10:51pm

Yes, problems today and yesterday. Various people discussing on twitter. It extends to the NAI's genealogy websites too - all hosted on the same servers.

BowWow · 02-01-2020 11:11am

Happy New Year to all on this forum and thank you for all the help in 2019.....

BowWow..

ps - You didn't think there was a download announcement?

josip · 02-01-2020 11:28am

BowWow wrote: »

ps - You didn't think there was a download announcement?

No, barking dogs seldom bite

BowWow · 02-01-2020 1:22pm

josip wrote: »

No, barking dogs seldom bite

Woof, Woof.

BowWow · 08-01-2020 1:03pm

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-genealogy-records-online-4957835-Jan2020/

L1011 · 08-01-2020 1:20pm

Confirms my g-grandparents were quite late in registering a December 1918 birth that was previously unviewable anyway!

BowWow · 08-01-2020 1:36pm

First 2 I looked at there are no images, found others though.

hblock21 · 08-01-2020 3:41pm

I would like to understand how the Civil Registration Districts worked for these new marriage records just put up 1845-1863. Is it the very same areas as the Catholic records after 1864?

L1011 · 08-01-2020 3:55pm

hblock21 wrote: »

I would like to understand how the Civil Registration Districts worked for these new marriage records just put up 1845-1863. Is it the very same areas as the Catholic records after 1864?

The districts were the poor law ones established in 1834; they should be the same.

Hermy · 08-01-2020 9:43pm

Anyone else noticed there appear to be two of every marriage record pre 1864?

leck · 09-01-2020 12:34am

BowWow wrote: »

First 2 I looked at there are no images, found others though.

Yeah, I found no images in Claremorris district. However, there were transcripts for some, which is useful. Wonder will they disappear when images go up.

Hermy · 09-01-2020 10:55am

Another observation...

There are no pre-64 marriages showing for Ballymahon district.

pinkypinky · 09-01-2020 11:13am

Yes, I found 2 of everything I looked up on the marriages.

Earnest · 09-01-2020 11:47am

L1011 wrote: »

The districts were the poor law ones established in 1834; they should be the same.

By coincidence this came up in my Facebook feed: Appendix to Report of the Royal Commission on Local Taxation, c. 1900:
"By 1842 Ireland had been divided into 130 Unions. These areas were formed on very much the same plan as in England. The chief market town in each part of the country was taken as a centre and the adjoining rural district, within a radius of about 10 miles, was attached to it. The 130 Unions thus formed were subdivided into 2,049 Electoral Divisions. In 1850 the number of Unions was increased to 163, and the Electoral Divisions to 3,438. The number of Unions in Ireland at present is 159."

If Poor Law Unions changed, it is logical that Superintendent Registrars' Districts might have changed also. This might explain some of the oddities encountered.

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