Hello. Can someone please, tell me if Ancestry.com has birth records for Ireland, not just the indexes? Thank you. Mary Beth

I know of no one but the General Records Office (GRO) to have Irish Civil Records post 1864 and sacramental records pre 1864 are with the various parish churches/Heritage Centers but are not complete records. You can order microfiche from your local LDS for a minimal fee if you know the parish, county, townland, etc. Many people on the list have the film numbers for ones they have utilized and the LDS site has an index with the correct numbers for you to order. Not sure of the timeline or place in the Republic or Northern Ireland you want. Unless it was recent, I was not aware Ancestry even had access to an index of the Irish Civil or available sacramental records. I dropped it a few months back. Mary Ellen Chambers mbh99@comcast.net wrote: Hello. Can someone please, tell me if Ancestry.com has birth records for Ireland, not just the indexes? Thank you. Mary Beth ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/

If you go to: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie This website is the front door for the longstanding Irish Genealogy Project, which was supposed to be completed this? year. But the latest news is that at the current rate of progress it won't be complete until 2025 or thereabouts! This project was very ambitious in attempting to put all Church and statutory records online, perhaps over ambitious? It has at this point almost 3 million records indexed and online, in it's "Central Signposting Index" (Please note that this is only an index, but it is possible to order transcriptions from the website, mostly from Ulster) However, the ridiculous pricing of this service (IMHO) will mean that most of us will have to wait until some enterprising genealogy business duplicates the service at a more affordable cost. On this website (through the Heritage Centres) they ask $32(AU) for a single BDM or MI transcription if they have it indexed and in their database, and $72(AU) to search for a birth. Their "feasibility search" doesn't offer very good value either at $105(AU) for the privilege of being told that you can spend lots more money with them! Well worth visiting for the index, or if you really needed a record urgently, but I'm saving my pennies for the airfare. TC