Posted: Thu Jan 9, 2020 4:36pm
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Finding Irish Birth Records Online
There are now plenty of resources for locating Irish birth records online. The civil birth indexes were initially digitised by volunteers with the Church of the Latter Day Saints and these indexes, which cover the period from 1864 to 1958 only are freely available online at Familysearch.org
This is the same collection that is also available on Ancestry and Findmypast and the same errors and omissions appear on all three sites. All three sites have also amalgamated collections of baptismal records and the records of civil registration. It is important to try and distinguish between the two when searching these sites.
The search function on the familysearch.org site is quite good and takes into account lots of different variant spellings of a surname, so this is the index that I will most frequently use.
However, the Irish government have also published their own index of Irish births, marriages and deaths online at civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie. The birth index on this website dates from 1864 to 1916 and each birth index entry is linked to an image of the original registration.