The following taken from the web: _http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#testamentary_collections_ (http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#testamentary_collections) >>The records were all destroyed in 1922 << No, they weren't. The Public Record Office in Dublin was indeed destroyed during the Irish Civil War in 1922, along with virtually all its holdings. >From the point of view of genealogy, the most significant losses were the 19th-century census returns, the Church of Ireland parish registers and the _testamentary collections_ (http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#testamentary_collections) . Anything not in the PRO has survived, including non-Church of Ireland parish records, civil records of births, marriages and deaths, property records and later censuses. For much of the material that was lost, there are abstracts, transcripts and fragments of the originals. >>Irish research is impossibly difficult << To the contrary, there is actually quite a compact set of relevant records, almost all held centrally in Dublin or Belfast. If you start with enough information - in particular, a place of origin in Ireland - research is actually very straightforward. >>All the records for Northern Ireland are held in Belfast and those for the Republic of Ireland are in Dublin << Wrong again. Until 1922 the entire island was one administrative unit. Both Dublin and Belfast _repositories_ (http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#repositories) have at least copies of the pre-1922 records, with those in Belfast largely, but not completely, confined to the nine historic counties of Ulster. It is only after 1922 that the records are different.

I understood that at some stage the powers that be decided to save on storage and shredded many remaining documents. I would be delighted to think that it was a bad story. julie ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 21 November, 2010 1:37:47 PM Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN] IRL[DUBLIN] Records found in Dublin The following taken from the web: _http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#testamentary_collections_ (http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#testamentary_collections) >>The records were all destroyed in 1922 <<  No, they weren't. The Public Record Office in Dublin was indeed destroyed during the Irish Civil War in 1922, along with virtually all its holdings. >From the point of view of genealogy, the most significant losses were the 19th-century census returns, the Church of Ireland parish registers and the _testamentary collections_ (http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#testamentary_collections) . Anything not in the PRO has survived, including non-Church of Ireland parish records, civil records of births, marriages and deaths, property records and later censuses. For much of the material that was lost, there are abstracts, transcripts and fragments of the originals.  >>Irish research is impossibly difficult <<  To the contrary, there is actually quite a compact set of relevant records, almost all held centrally in Dublin or Belfast. If you start with enough information - in particular, a place of origin in Ireland - research is actually very straightforward.  >>All the records for Northern Ireland are held in Belfast and those for the Republic of Ireland are in Dublin <<  Wrong again. Until 1922 the entire island was one administrative unit. Both Dublin and Belfast _repositories_ (http://www.movinghere.org.uk/help/glossary.htm#repositories)  have at least copies of the pre-1922 records, with those in Belfast largely, but not completely, confined to the nine historic counties of Ulster. It is only after 1922 that the records are different. ****************************** ATTENTION TO ALL:- Do any of you ever get to the bottom of this mail?, and do you remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE  for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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