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    1. [CoTyIre] Ireland Civil Registrations- About the LDS Collection
    2. Bill Hazelton
    3. While I have not tried to obtain copies of these registrations, perhaps the following will help. If you click on "About This Collection" on the LDS website it gives this information: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionGuid ance;c=1408347 "RECORD HISTORY Ireland kept two sets of registrations, one local and the other national. This document describes the national Indexes, not the local. Prior to the separation of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 1922, all national civil registrations and indexes for the island were kept by the General Register Office in Dublin. Beginning in 1922 there were two General Offices, one in Dublin for the Republic and one in Belfast for Northern Ireland." It appears that you should contact the GRO Dublin... Happy Hunting Bill Original Message----- From: margaret murray [mailto:mmjm.murray@virgin.net] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:23 AM To: Jennifer David Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] Ireland Civil registrations Hello again, Further to my earlier message I have just received today a letter from the General Register Office Northern Ireland stating that they cannot find any marriage record for my gr-grandparents using the information I had supplied. The LDS pilot site had both parties with the same volume # and page # and as both names were those of my gr-grandparents I was more than a little hopeful it was them, and expected there to be a record. However since this wasn't the case I phoned the office and explained the situation, and asked if it would have been helpful if I had given the volume # and page # as listed on the LDS pilot site, although there was no-where on the application form to fill this in. I was told no, and that they did not know where the LDS got those numbers from and that they may not be the same as the register office s own numbers, so they have been told to disregard those numbers, and since they could find no record of the marriage I was after, that was basically that!! Margaret. ---

    02/21/2009 12:22:23