{"id":733,"date":"2014-07-04T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-08-25T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T11:26:43","slug":"irishgenealogy-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/irishgenealogy-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Records (BMD) on IrishGenealogy.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having great fun this afternoon searching through the newly available <a href=\"http:\/\/civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie\/churchrecords\/civil-search.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">online index of the GRO&#8217;s civil registers of births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishgenealogy.ie\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">IrishGenealogy.ie<\/a>, and finding a few things that I never quite managed to pin down on <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">familysearch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Search options are basic enough &#8211; first name, last name, district and year range, plus the option to restrict results to one or more of births, marriages and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one gotcha I came across: if you select any of the options under <em><strong>Filter your results<\/strong><\/em>, you may need to clear them again before you can see the full results of your next search. I was bemused that no Murphys were showing up in my results, till I realised I&#8217;d clicked the checkbox for <strong>Births<\/strong> in the <em><strong>Search Criteria<\/strong><\/em>, but had a filter for <strong>Deaths<\/strong> in the <em><strong>Filter your results<\/strong><\/em> area.<\/p>\n<p>Birth records include mother&#8217;s maiden name where available, which is a great help!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a lovely option to browse records by district, so you may happen upon likely relations you wouldn&#8217;t have found otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve hit any brick walls tracking down your Irish ancestors, it&#8217;s definitely worth giving this site a spin.<\/p>\n<p>ETA: The fabulous Claire Santry has a <a href=\"http:\/\/irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.ie\/2014\/07\/making-sense-of-gro-database-your.html\" target=\"_blank\">very detailed post<\/a> on the background to this new resource over on <a href=\"http:\/\/irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having great fun this afternoon searching through the newly available online index of the GRO&#8217;s civil registers of births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths on IrishGenealogy.ie, and finding a few things that I never quite managed to pin down on familysearch.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[21,12,34],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tech","tag-genealogy","tag-search","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}