Irish Family History Society

Connecting People With Their Irish Roots

February Record Collection Updates

Irish Genealogy

Every year an additional year of Birth, Marriage and Death entries is added to the website, which is free to use, and no subscription or registration is required. Records have been added:

  • Birth records – 1864 to 1925
  • Marriage records – 1845 to 1950
  • Death records – 1864 to 1975

The missing images for the death records 1864-1870 are also thought to be imminently available. Keep your fingers crossed!

FamilySearch

  • Nothing in February relevant to Ireland

Roots Ireland

Nothing new this month. 

Find My Past

Nothing new this month but they have reached 100 million newspaper pages in partnership with the British Library. Available online at Findmypast and the British Newspaper Archive. There are many Irish titles in their collection.

Ancestry

New collections:

  • Nothing new this month

Updated:

See: Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

Nothing new this month.

Irish Genealogy Projects

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 17 February 2026 – 649,603 index records from 66,515 memorials of deeds.

Thanks again to our marvelous volunteers we now have 649,603 index records from 66,515 memorials of deeds in our main database.

These records (and our other databases) are fully searchable at: https://irishdeedsindex.net/search/search.php

Other News

Roots and Branches

The Western Family History Association (Cumann Stair Teaghlaigh an Iarthair) is a genealogy group based in County Galway. They are a self-help group for members

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IGRS 90th Anniversary Plans

This year, 2026, heralds the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) in 1936. This milestone anniversary will be marked

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