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Irish Genealogical Research Society.
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Irish Genealogical Research Society.
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The IGRS (Irish Genealogical Research Society) now has over 66,000 marriage records online. The index of early marriages is free to search. A quote from the website states:
With so many parishes in Ireland not having any register of marriages
before the 1840s, the database is fast becoming an invaluable tool in
identifying where and when ancestors tied-the-knot. It includes
references from a myriad of different sources: books, gravestones,
family bibles, deeds, wills, letters, court records, published journals,
newspapers, census transcripts and old age pensions forms, to name just
a few.
Sources drawn upon for this particular update include marriage
licence bonds from a number of diocese covering all or parts of counties
Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo,
Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow; and there are further references to
marriages from the Registry of Deeds.
