Probate and will records

The Gazette

This site brings together the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes into one website. The Gazettes are the official newspapers of the United Kingdom government. This site offers state of the art combined searching of the Gazettes. You can search in…

Ancestry.com – Ireland Family History Research Page

There are 176+ data collections online. The records are fully indexed with a free surname search. Subscription options offer access to transcripts or digitised records.  The collections are arranged in the following categories:• Ireland Census & Voter Lists• Ireland Birth, Marriage &…

Ancestry.com – Ireland – Convict, Criminal, Land & Wills data collections

The records are fully indexed with a free surname search. Subscription options offer access to transcripts or digitised records. These online data collections include:• Ireland, Griffith’s Valuation, 1848-1864• Ireland, Tithe Applotment Books, 1823-1837• Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847• Registry of…

IrishGenealogy.ie

IrishGenealogy.ie is a free family history website by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The online data includes:• Church records – access 3+ million pre 1900 Church of Ireland records for Dublin City, Kerry and Carlow; Roman Catholic…

FamilySearch Historical Record Collections – Ireland

There are 13 Historical Record Collections for Ireland. They include: • Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881• Civil Registration Indexes, birth, death & marriages 1864-1958. Marriage index 1845-1864 (non-Catholic)• Calendar of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1920 • Census 1821 (surviving fragments); Census 1831…

National Archives of Ireland – Genealogy Site

This site offers free access to searchable databases and images of the original records for: • Census of Ireland, 1901 and 1911 • Census survivals, 1821-1851.  Fragments survive for: Antrim 1851; Belfast city (one ward only) 1851; Cavan 1821 and…

Ireland Probate Calendars 1923-1982

British GENES blog site by Chris Paton offers direct links to the Ireland Probate Calendars 1923-1982 PDF files that have been digitised and made available on the National Archives of Ireland site.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland – Will Calendars

Offers indexes and images for the district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry. The index covers 1858-1965. Transcribed copies of wills are available for Belfast 1858-1909, Armagh 1858-1918 and Londonderry 1858-1899. Click on the ‘image’ icon next to an…

The Irish Manuscripts Commission – Digital books

The Commission has digitised many of their out of print publications and made them freely available online, all fully keyword searchable. A small example of what is available includes:  • Registry of Deeds Dublin abstracts of wills – volume 1,…

Ireland Genealogy Project & Ireland Genealogy Project Archives

This site offers access to a valuable collection of material not readily available elsewhere. There are significant collections of monumental inscriptions, headstone photographs and parish register transcriptions available. The site is arranged by county and within each county by categories…