March Record Collection Updates

FamilySearch

• Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958 77,932 Expanded Collection
• Ireland, Petty Sessions Court registers 20,965,491 Expanded Collection

Roots Ireland

Nothing new this month. 

Celebrate St Patrick’s Day by taking out a 12-month subscription for RootsIreland with 25% off from 4th March to 31st March 2026!

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:

• Ireland Census, 1659

Updated:

• Nothing updated this month

See: Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

Nothing new this month.

Irish Genealogy Projects

• DERRY/LONDONDERRY, Genealogy Archives – Headstones Alla Municipal Cemetery, Claudy
• WEXFORD, Genealogy Archives – Headstones St. Munn’s Graveyard, Taghmon
• 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 12 March 2026 – 650,605 index records from 66,601 memorials of deeds.

Our wonderful volunteers continue to build a very data rich index to the Registry of Deeds. It contains great metadata and provides much greater insights that a simple word search. Due to their diligent work, for which we cannot thank them enough, we now have 650,605 index records from 66,601 memorials of deeds in our main index.

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: The Irish News 1950 – 2009

We are delighted to announce that we have published online the Irish News 1950 – 2009. This first tranche of the #Irish News holds 262,112 pages of new content and will open new areas of research for #genealogist and #Historians across the World.

Now available to search Irish News archive:

• 1925-1926
• 1950-2009

All other periods from 1891 are already scanned and will be making their way online in the coming weeks.