RESEARCHING IRELAND -3 REGISTERS AND INDEXES All Ireland pre-1922 and post-1922 Republic of Ireland It is important to establish in which part of Ireland your ancestors lived. The Registrar General, General Register Office, Joyce House, 8-11 Lombard Street East, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland http://www.groireland.ie/ has custody of indexes and copy registers relating to births and deaths in any part of Ireland from 1 January 1864 to 31 December 1921 and in the Irish Free State, Eire or the Republic of Ireland from 1 January 1922 to date. General Register Office, Dublin, also has the indexes and registers to the non-Catholic marriages of all denominations from 1 April 1845 to 31 December 1863, all Irish marriages from 1 January 1864 to 31 December 1921 and marriages in the Irish Free State, Eire or Republic of Ireland from 1 January 1922 to date. Northern Ireland If your ancestors lived in one of the six counties making up Northern Ireland then some of the registers of interest will be in the custody of the Registrar General for Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency, General Register House, Oxford House, 49-55 . Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4HL, Northern Ireland (http://www.groni.gov.uk/) which is now processing Certificates online also. Held here are birth and death registration records for the Northern Ireland counties from 1 January 1864 to date, but registrations of marriages in Northern Ireland go back only to 1 January 1922 Oxford House has indexes to the Northern Ireland birth registrations since 1864 but only has indexes to Northern Ireland death and marriage registrations since 1 January 1922. If you seek a marriage in Northern Ireland before 1922, then the best place to locate it is in the all-Ireland marriage registrations and indexes held in Dublin at Joyce House (see above) or in the marriage registrations from 1845 to 1921 held by registrars in local district register offices (see section below From Resister Offices under 'Obtaining Irish Certificates'). To trace death entries between 1864 and 1921 at Oxford House the registration district must be known. . To sum up, if you need to locate an event in Northern Ireland since 1922 (or a birth from 1864) then the easiest method is to approach Oxford House in Belfast. For events before 1922 in Northern Ireland (except births) and in any part of the rest of Ireland since 1864 (or since 1845 for non- Catholic marriages) then the easiest method is to approach Joyce House in Dublin. For further information of these go to http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/addresses/major.htm =============================================================== ©Cara_Links Researching Co.Wicklow,Wexford. A friend is one who accepts your past, loves you as you are, and believes in your tomorrows