October Record Collection Updates

FamilySearch

Nothing of note for Ireland. Some additional Essex Parish Registers digitised for the United Kingdom, plus many more collections for Italy, among other locales. See: New Free Historical Records from 10 Countries | November 2025 Update

Roots Ireland

New 11,964 census substitutes for Antrim and Down. These include:

• Act of Union Petitions, 1799-1800 (Down) – 760 records
• Supporters of and Subscribers to Charitable and Public Causes, 1781-1900 (Antrim & Down) – 5218 records
• Irish Emigration Records, 1773-1939 (Antrim & Down) – 681 records
• Tenant farmers on different estates in Ulster, 1651-1903 (Antrim & Down) – 2314 records
• Matriculated and Non-Matriculated Students (Antrim) – 949 records
• Freeholder Index (Antrim & Down) – 1728 records

See: Blog and News – Roots Ireland

Find My Past

Nothing of note especially for Ireland but I feel I should mention that the Newspaper Archive now includes every edition of Jackie, the best-selling teen magazine 1964-1993! See: What’s New? | Page 1 | Blog | Findmypast.ie

Ancestry

New collections:

• Ireland, Customs Officer Pension Index, 1806-1831
• Tipperary, Ireland, Coroners’ Inquests Index, 1832-1836
• Ireland, Church of Ireland Land Tenure Index, 1878
• Ireland, Midleton Distillery Barley Purchase Books, 1825-1834

Updated:

• Web: UK, Register of Railway Employee Injuries and Deaths, 1880-1939
• Global, Find a Grave® Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 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.

The latest update page is from June 2025: June 2025 New Releases – Virtual Treasury

Latest media release is also from June: VRTI 2025 – News & Events | Trinity College Dublin

Irish Genealogy Projects

• CARLOW, Genealogy Archives – Headstones. Newtown R.C. Graveyard, Completed. https://www.igp-web.com/…/photos/tombstones/1newtown

• DERRY/LONDONDERRY, Genealogy Archives – Headstones. Dungiven CoI Graveyard, Pt 1. https://www.igp-web.com/…/tombstones/1dungiven/dungiven-1

• DUBLIN, Genealogy Archives – Headstones. Kilbarrack Graveyard – Pt 6c. https://www.igp-web.com/…/photos/tombstones/1kilbarrack

• DUBLIN, Genealogy Archives – Land. Tenants Of Stewart Estate In Dublin, Ireland 1797-1807. https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/land.htm

• KILDARE, Genealogy Archives – Land. Tenants on the Estate of Lord Cloncurry – 1840. https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/kildare/land.htm

• LIMERICK & TIPPERARY, Genealogy Archives – Miscellaneous. Small Farmers – Maunsell Property – 1848. https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/tipperary/misc.htm

• WATERFORD, Genealogy Archives – Miscellaneous. Labourers In Lismore – 1850. https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/waterford/misc.htm

• WEXFORD, Genealogy Archives – Headstones. St. Patrick’s R.C. Graveyard, Craanford. https://www.igp-web.com/…/photos/tombstones/markers.htm

• WEXFORD, Genealogy Archives – Miscellaneous. Tenants of H.K. Grogan Morgan – 1847. https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/wexford/misc.htm

Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland

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

Update of 17 October 2025 – 637,874 index records from 65,444 memorials of deeds.