Countdown to the 260th anniversary of Ireland's first census. 🕰️ 7️⃣ 5 March 1766 the Irish House of Lords orders a census of all householders noting 'which are protestants and which are Papists' (Catholics). They gave only 61 days to cover the whole country! virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRI... 👀 ALT

Irish ancestors / relatives who migrated to New Zealand? Here ye go…

IGRS Top Research Tip #195: Did some of your Irish family migrate to New Zealand? The NZ Ancestor Search Helper draws together data from a range of online NZ resources: ash.howison.co.nz

IGRS Top Research Tip #195: Did some of your Irish family migrate to New Zealand? The NZ Ancestor Search Helper draws together data from a range of online NZ resources: ash.howison.co.nz

59 items from the 1766 religious census, Ireland's 1st census, survived the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922. This return, for the Union of Abington, in east County Limerick, dated 9 April 1766, is one of the finest of these very rare survivors. virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP...

Ah! the romance of the middle ages 💘 St Valentine's Day 1450: John de la Hyde seized Ballyburley, Co. Offaly, from Geoffrey, Bishop of Kildare. King Henry VI ordered John to give it back. Offaly romantic, no? www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/PROI-PU... @offalyhistory.bsky.social

IGRS Top Research Tip #194: Did your ancestor serve in the Irish police? This link lists all the stations across Ireland for the Royal Irish Constabulary (to 1922) and the Dublin Metropolitan Police (to 1924): www.swilson.info/m/ricdmp1890...

IGRS Top Research Tip #193: There are around 2 million gravestone transcriptions (many with photos) from all across Ireland on the Findagrave website. Have you used it, it’s free: www.findagrave.com

Good news - The annual update on the Irishgenealogy site is launched today: births 1925, marriages 1950, deaths 1975 have been added: www.irishgenealogy.ie/search/

IGRS Top Research Tip #193: There are around 2 million gravestone transcriptions (many with photos) from all across Ireland on the Findagrave website. Have you used it, it’s free: www.findagrave.com

IGRS Top Research Tip #192: Street names in civil and church registers can sometimes be hard to locate on modern maps. For Cork city there’s a handy online list linking together old and new street names, 1750-2013: digital.corkpastandpresent.com/Documents/De...

IGRS Top Research Tip #192: Street names in civil and church registers can sometimes be hard to locate on modern maps. For Cork city there’s a handy online list linking together old and new street names, 1750-2013: digital.corkpastandpresent.com/Documents/De...

Have some fun with your morning cuppa and try the St Bridget’s Day quiz compiled by Accredited Genealogists Ireland… accreditedgenealogists.ie/wp-content/u...

AGI Publishes New Resource on the Social Context of Ireland’s 1901 and 1911 Census Records: accreditedgenealogists.ie/agi-publishe...

IGRS Top Research Tip #191: Cork City Libraries has a terrific online collection of scanned images of Cork City and County maps, the earliest dating from 1545: shorturl.at/Qqu3o

I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.

IGRS Top Research Tip #191: Cork City Libraries has a terrific online collection of scanned images of Cork City and County maps, the earliest dating from 1545: shorturl.at/Qqu3o

How the new Irish Free State counted the population in 1926: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

📢 NEXT ROADSHOW: We're headed to the Treaty City! Join us in Limerick on 11 February for our next VRTI Roadshow. We'll be hosted by Limerick City and County Council Archives Services and Library, the Limerick Museum, and the People's Museum of Limerick. More details here: bit.ly/4r0Ej2M

Interested in Irish census? Here ye go….

Marking its 90th anniversary, the IGRS will host a global programme of events in 2026, reflecting its international membership and ties to the Irish diaspora, and celebrating Irish identity and heritage in all its traditions worldwide: www.irishancestors.ie/90th-anniver...

Marking its 90th anniversary, the IGRS will host a global programme of events in 2026, reflecting its international membership and ties to the Irish diaspora, and celebrating Irish identity and heritage in all its traditions worldwide: www.irishancestors.ie/90th-anniver...

IGRS Top Research Tip #190: There are still 2 ways to access census records on National Archives of Ireland’s website. The original portal, which can be more limited but more reliable, & the new portal with greater searching scope, but with some drawbacks in reliability. See here: shorturl.at/MnMAb

#TNAConnections Another great Gold Seam you can explore on the VRTI is that of the State Papers Ireland, 1660–1715 (TNA SP 63), an assembled collection of official letters, private papers, and correspondence that is held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy. virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/s...

#NewDIBLives In the summer of 1688 Irish-born Goody (Goodwife) Glover was accused of witchcraft. She was tried, found guilty and hanged on 16 November & was the last person executed in Boston as a witch. Her tercentenary was commemorated on 16 November 1988. www.dib.ie/biography/gl... @ria.ie

Died #Onthisday 1934 Annie Patterson, 'UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music.' www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Penrose Quay #Cork in 1929 with Nat Ross truck & Innisfallen #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W Photo Examiner

Guess who’s 90 this year! 😉

IGRS Top Research Tip #190: There are still 2 ways to access census records on National Archives of Ireland’s website. The original portal, which can be more limited but more reliable, & the new portal with greater searching scope, but with some drawbacks in reliability. See here: shorturl.at/MnMAb

2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the IGRS. Watch this space in the coming weeks for more information about how we will be celebrating this milestone anniversary throughout the year ahead.

IGRS Top Research Tip #189: If your ancestor worked on the British and Irish Railways, then this database of accidents and fatalities may be helpful. It lists incidents by name and location, 1889-1930: shorturl.at/DDUjp

IGRS Top Research Tip #189: If your ancestor worked on the British and Irish Railways, then this database of accidents and fatalities may be helpful. It lists incidents by name and location, 1889-1930: shorturl.at/DDUjp

2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the IGRS. Watch this space in the coming weeks for more information about how we will be celebrating this milestone anniversary throughout the year ahead.

IGRS Top Research Tip #188: Here’s a rich online seam of Cork City and County Directories just waiting to be mined, dating from the 18th to the 20th centuries: shorturl.at/IiF6g

Nick Reddan is the 2025 Recipient of the Society’s Wallace Clare Award: www.irishancestors.ie/wallace-clar...

IGRS Top Research Tip #187: The earliest records in the Belfast Burial Index date from 1869 & are drawn from three council run sites. The data includes death dates, ages, addresses, & plot numbers. For older records, scans from the registers can be purchased too: www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords

Nick Reddan is the 2025 Recipient of the Society’s Wallace Clare Award: www.irishancestors.ie/wallace-clar...

IGRS Top Research Tip #187: The earliest records in the Belfast Burial Index date from 1869 & are drawn from three council run sites. The data includes death dates, ages, addresses, & plot numbers. For older records, scans from the registers can be purchased too: www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords

Censuses of Ireland, 1766-1891. At end Nov. our total for names in VRTI CEN from 1766 religious census, 1798 census of Dublin City and censuses of Ireland 1813-1891 hit 98,000. On Tuesday we'll give the end Dec. total. Will we hit 100k? Tune in Tuesday for update. Any guesses?

IGRS Top Research Tip #186: Ancestors from Co Donegal? This site is laden down with a real medley of material arranged by subject and place: donegalgenealogy.com

IGRS Top Research Tip #185: The Linenhall Library in Belfast has a terrific collection of Irish postcards (mainly Ulster) which have been scanned, indexed & posted online. Find out what your ancestor’s local town looked like a century or more ago: www.postcardsireland.com

IGRS Top Research Tip #185: The Linenhall Library in Belfast has a terrific collection of Irish postcards (mainly Ulster) which have been scanned, indexed & posted online. Find out what your ancestor’s local town looked like a century or more ago: www.postcardsireland.com

IGRS Top Research Tip #184: OS200 is a Digital Archive bringing together the records of the 19th-century Ordnance Survey of Ireland, historical maps, memoirs, name-books, letters and drawings, into one searchable online platform: dri.ie/os200/spotli...

IGRS Top Research Tip #183: Was one of your Irish ancestors in receipt of a US civil war pension? Try this new online resource: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...

IGRS Top Research Tip #182: There are two online databases for records of Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. Using them both interchangeably can reveal a full list of who is interred in each grave: www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/... & shorturl.at/uyLgx

Newly rediscovered Wexford church records and other family history gems in Killiney’s Franciscan Library: irishheritagenews.ie/wexford-chur...

IGRS Top Research Tip #181: Ancestors from Co Tipperary? Try Tipperary Studies’ vast and ever growing collection for the county’s history and heritage: books, journals, local newspapers, maps, images including photos and postcards, archives and ephemera: www.tippstudiesdigital.ie?utm_source=c...

IGRS Top Research Tip #180: Searching for post-1858 wills in England & Wales? Act quickly to save money: the cost of ordering copies will rise from Monday, 17 November 2025, by a whopping 966%, from £1.50 to £16! www.gov.uk/search-will-...

One Thousand New Entries Added to our Early Irish BMD Indexes: www.irishancestors.ie/bmd-indexes-...

On this day in 1838, Patrick Cullinane died aged 28. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Claregalway Abbey, Co. Galway, in the Journals: tinyurl.com/cull1838 Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Galway