RESEARCHING IRELAND 4 INDEX VOLUMES Irish indexes are in annual alphabetical volumes by category of events from 1864 to 1877 and in four quarterly volumes for each year from 1878 to 1973 From 1903 to 1927 inclusive the births indexes (only) revert back to one annual volume and from this year also show the maiden surname of the mother against each birth registration. Births indexes from 1903 also include the actual date of birth until 1921 in Northern Ireland and until 1928 in the Republic of Ireland. Marriages are indexed twice under the names of the bride and groom. Deaths indexes also contain the age of the deceased which may be inaccurate. Within each alphabetical index volume events are listed by surname, forename(s), the registration district-where it took place and the volume and page number of the register in which it was recorded. Retrospective or late registrations were possible in Ireland because of the numbers of events that slipped through the administrative net. They do not appear in the indexes in the year in which the event was late-registered, but are to be found in the year in which the event originally took place. In the case of births and deaths late registrations are listed separately at the back of the appropriate births or deaths index volume. Late registrations for marriages are added to the main marriages indexes in the appropriate year and alphabetical place, together with the normal marriage entries. ============================================================= ©Cara_Links Researching Co.Wicklow,Wexford. A friend is one who accepts your past, loves you as you are, and believes in your tomorrows