About Find My Past Ireland
A family history and genealogy resource with a focus on Ireland and the Irish.
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Key features
Search millions of records on Find My Past Ireland, including:
- The Landed Estates Court records: details of over 500,000 tenants on estates all over Ireland;
- Griffith’s Valuation: information about households from the Famine and up until the start of the civil registration in 1864;
- National directories dating back to 1814;
- Indexes to Irish wills dating from 1270 – 1858;
- Over 400,000 gravestones and church memorials;
- Military records from the 1798 Rebellion through to World War I;
- Emigration records of over 40,000 individuals;
- Over 250,000 obituaries and other newspaper notices from all over Ireland.
More information
Researching Irish family history can be difficult. People assume that most of the Irish records were destroyed in the Four Courts Fire of 1922. Although it is true that many Irish wills, census returns and many Church of Ireland parish registers were damaged, there are still many sources available through Find My Past Ireland.
