July Record Collection Updates

The following are the updates to Irish family history record collections and Irish genealogy record collections for July 2026. Do let us know of any others this month by emailing info@ifhs.ie.

Local Societies

Skibbereen Heritage Centre has added 26 North Cork cemeteries to its graveyard database in its latest burial record release. The Cork Graveyards Database is hosted on the Skibbereen Heritage Centre website and includes both searchable burial register records and results from several graveyard surveys. An interactive map shows each graveyard included in the project, most of which are cemeteries owned and managed by Cork County Council. 

See: Cork Graveyards Database – Skibbereen Heritage Centre

Irish Anzacs Database is Back!

After an absence of six years the Irish Anzacs database is back online at irishanzacs.com. The database is part of the Irish Anzacs Project, which aims to identify the estimated 6000 Irish-born men and women who served in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War and to provide a publicly accessible database containing information on each of them.

Launched in October 2014 by the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan TD, the database was originally hosted on a server at the University of New South Wales. But in July 2020 that arrangement ceased. For the past six years attempts to find an alternative institutional host were unsuccessful. But the database has now found a new home at irishanzacs.com.

The database as it currently stands includes the names of more than 5800 Irish Anzacs. It provides families with information on their Irish-born family members who served in the AIF in the war as well as providing statistical data to assist researchers understand the contribution of the Irish to the Australian war effort.

Ulster Historical Federation

As well as corrections and updates, over 70,000 NEW records have also been added to our website.

Some of these new additions include:

• Belfast Co-Op Consumers of Coal, 1947
• Biographical Index of Irish Immigrants to South Australia, 1836-1885
• Businessmen who issued tokens in Ireland, 1653-1679
• Census of Donaghendry Parish, Co. Tyrone, c. 1840
• Census of the Templeton Estate, Co. Antrim, 1846  
• Collectors of Taxes in Ireland, 1678
• Deaths Recorded in South Carolina, USA, Newspapers, 1806-1838
• Early Ulster Military Records including Militia Lists, Muster Rolls and Yeomanry Lists
• Emigrants Cited on Co. Down Gravestones, 1790-1948
• Emigrants from Ulster cited on Troy, New York Gravestones, 1828-1896
• Employment of the Industrious Blind, 1871-1875
• Irishmen who served in the Spanish Netherlands, 1581-1672 
• List of Good Tea Agents in Ireland, 1855
• List of Motor Spirit Dealers, 1922
• List of Transportees to Australia, 1830-1845
• List of Wholseale Grocers in Northern Ireland, 1924
• Offer of Service from the Tenants of Lord Charles Fitzgerald, c.1798
• Owners of Motor Transport in Banbridge, Co. Down, 1924
• Pawnbrokers Registered in Ireland, 1832-1844
• Robertson’s Parochial National School Register, Raphoe Co. Donegal, 1871-1900
• Shares in Belfast Ropeworks, 1941
• Tenantry of Lord Oriel of the Ferrard Barony, 1820-1827

FamilySearch

• Nothing specifically related to Ireland this month.

Roots Ireland

Nothing new this month.

Find My Past

Nothing new specific to Ireland this month but there have been additions to Royal Navy collections and railway and canal record collections that may be of interest. See: What’s New

Ancestry

New collections:

• Ireland, 1926 Census of the Irish Free State

Updated:

• Nothing relevant to Ireland this month

See: Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

Tuesday, 30 June 2026 was the 104th anniversary of the explosion and fire which destroyed the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War. To mark the date, 190,000 new historical records are being released online, bringing to over half a million the total number of records freely and permanently available on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

• Over 190,000 new records bring to 544,000 the total number of records available in the VRTI and 340 million words of searchable Irish history.
• Enhanced Knowledge Graph of Irish History: Now with over 15,000 entries, including 5,800 more historical individuals added since last June. More than 3,500 people from the early modern period (1550-1700), over 2,300 of these are women and 2,300 people are from the medieval/Norman period.
• Catholic Emancipation, 1825-1829: This curated collection traces the campaign led by Daniel O’Connell and the Catholic Association, through thousands of digital images of letters, petitions, intelligence reports government correspondence.
• States of Independence, 1776-1783: Curated collection reveals the close, and sometimes surprising, connections between Ireland and the American Revolution.
• The Birth of Local History in Ireland: Curated collection gathers together attempts by early modern local history enthusiasts to document the customs, folklore, history and landscape of their localities.
• State Papers Ireland 1660 – 1715: Over 40 more volumes of State Papers and Signet Office records are being released. These have been interconnected with the Knowledge Graph creating a powerful new tool for researching this tumultuous period of Irish history following Cromwell’s death.
• Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 1237 – 1778: Gold Seam containing 800 stories of the lives of ordinary men and women in Dublin, from arranging a funeral procession in 1345, or leaving bequests for prisoners in Dublin Castle in 1380, to mapping a property on Merchants Quay in 1739.
• Parchment Conquest (1171-1307): In 8,000 printed summaries of records drawn from a Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland we encounter Italian tax-collectors in Galway, poachers in Dublin, and women seizing land in Cork
• Medieval Irish Exchequer Rolls (1309-10) : A remarkable record, NAI EX 1/1 is one of only two original medieval memoranda rolls of the Irish exchequer to survive in 1922, containing 56 parchment membranes. Beautifully conserved and digitally imaged, these records can be viewed for the first time in over a century.
• Registers of the Archbishops of Armagh (1361-1542): four fascinating volumes which capture the workings of church government, its extensive landholding, legal disputes and clerical discipline, as well as the relationships between English and Gaelic communities in medieval Ireland.

Irish Genealogy Projects

• CLARE, Genealogy Archives – Headstones: St. Andrews CoI Graveyard
• DERRY, Genealogy Archives – Headstones: Eglish Old Burial Ground, Magherafelt, Ballykelly Presbyterian Graveyard, Ballykelly, Limvady
• DERRY, Genealogy Archives – Headstones: St. Patrick’s, Claudy Part 2
• WESTMEATH, Genealogy Archives – Headstones: Kenny Graveyard, near Mullingar (Small Cemetery)
• 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 29 June 2026 – 654,615 index records from 66,993 memorials of deeds.

Thanks again to our wonderful volunteers we now have 654,615 index records from 66,993 memorials of deeds in our main database. These and all other databases are fully searchable. The index entries for all volumes 405 and below have links to the images on Family Search if they exist.

This index and the other indexes on our site are fully searchable.at:https://irishdeedsindex.net/search/search.php.

Irish Newspaper Archives

New Title Released:

• Belfast Morning News
• Cork Constitution
• Irish Weekly News Scottish Ed

Updated titles:

• Belfast Newsletter
• Donegal Democrat
• Dundalk Democrat
• Donegal News
• Derry Journal
• Evening Echo
• Fermanagh Herald
• Irish Examiner
• Irish News
• Kildare Nationalist
• Leinster Express
• Leinster Leader
• Limerick Leader
• Laois Nationalist
• Meath Chronicle
• Midland Tribune
• Mayo News
• Nenagh Guardian
• Offaly Independent
• Roscommon Herald
• Strabane Chronicle
• Sligo Weekender
• Southern Star
• Tuam Herald
• Tullamore Tribune
• Tyrone Herald
• Ulster Herald
• Westmeath Examiner
• Westmeath Independent
• Waterford News & Star
• Western People