December and January Record Collection Updates

FamilySearch

• Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845–1958, updated collection
• Ireland, Census, 1911, updated collection
• Ireland, Petty Sessions Court Registers, 1828-1912, updated collection

Roots Ireland

The addition of 8278 nineteenth-century census substitute records have been added for County Kildare to the Roots Ireland database! They are as follows: 

• Slater’s Trade Directories for Co. Kildare, 1846 and 1881 (3,234 records);
• Thom’s Directories, 1849 and 1854 (511 records);
• Voters’ Lists of Qualifying Freeholders and Leaseholders from the Leinster Express newspaper, of 1836 (4,533 records).

Find My Past

FMP have bolstered their English Roman Catholic record collection with over 29,000 new records from the year 1916. If you’ve got Catholic roots, these essential additions will help you to trace the milestones of your ancestors’ lives, from cradle to grave.

See: Dive into the new and improved Catholic Heritage Archive

Ancestry

New collections:

• None this month

Updated:

• UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current

See: Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

They do not provide a page or newsletter that provides this information at present so I can only rely on what appears in the media.

Parchment Conquest, 1171–1307, in conjunction with The National Archives (UK).

Irish Genealogy Projects

• DERRY/LONDONDERRY, Genealogy Archives – Headstones: St. Joseph R.C. Graveyard, Craigbane (Updated)
• DUBLIN, Genealogy Archives – Headstones: St. Fintan Cemetery (partial)
• FERMANAGH, Genealogy Archives – Land: Aghavea Tithe Applotments: 1832

See: https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives

Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland

See: Facebook. Also: This is the home page of the Registry of Deeds Index Project

Update of 21 December 2025 – 644,799 index records from 66,005 memorials of deeds.