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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mid 1800’s. Can’t go father back than that because Irish civil records burned in the Irish Civil War.[/quote] Not really. The British did not collect general information on Irish who were not landholders until the late 19th century—I think the death registries start around 1870 or so. Most of those records are still held by the Counties. Waterford County library has an excellent website — the death records are particularly useful. The griffiths valuations are also still intact but not useful for most poor people. The Catholic Church has baptism and wedding registries dating back many centuries. The Irish government has been in a process of digitizing them and making them searchable. They have a for-fee website to search them (it’s got an .ie ending) that is quite good but you need to puzzle out the priest’s handwriting and the Latin. [/quote]
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