4th July 2014 "Enhanced" Indexes to Ireland's Civil Registration Records Now Online At an event on the 3rd July attended by representatives of CIGO, the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan TD, launched a database index to Ireland's civil registration records. The database covers all civil records from 1845 (when registration first began) right up to 2013 - encompassing all non-Catholic marriages from April 1845 and all births, deaths and marriages from January 1864. Achieving this was one of CIGO's primary aims at the time it was founded in 1992 and yesterday's announcement by Mr Deenihan vindicates CIGO's long years of lobbying the Department of Health (which originally had oversight of the General Register Office) and the Department of Social Welfare (which assumed responsibility at the time of the passing of the Civil Registration Act 2004). The index entries in the database are "enhanced" because they note more information that those currently available in the GRO's Public Search Room or those that were microfilmed by the Church of Latter Day Saints in 1959 (and which are now available through FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com and Findmypast.ie). A good explanation of what information is provided can be found here at Irish Genealogy News. continue> http://www.cigo.ie/news.html