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Ancestry.com gives you access to browse, search, and view the 19th and early 20th-century record collections of Royal Irish Constabulary. Ancestry has two collections that cover the Irish Constabulary. This article gives the background to the records and the kind of details that you’ll see. I’ll also explain why you should consider using the Find … Read more

The Ancestry.com website has nearly twenty different collections of Irish marriage records. One massive collection is the complete index of Ireland’s civil registration records. The drawback is that it lacks images and enough information to easily identify your relatives. But we’ll give you some tips for this. Some smaller collections have the original images from … Read more

Ancestry gives you access to browse, search and view collections of Irish Catholic baptism, marriage, and burial records. These records are from the Church parish registers. Ancestry has nearly twenty different collections for this material, which can be confusing. Some are small and represent a handful of parishes. Some are older and have a lower … Read more

The Workhouse Registers contain detail of people residing in institutions set up for poverty relief across Britain and Ireland. This article covers these collections on Ancestry.com. We also give you tips on searching for what you need, and where else to look for records. What Were The Workhouses? The Workhouses were set up by the … Read more

The Irish Prison Registers collection contains details of people incarcerated in prisons across 26 counties between 1790 and 1924. The collection has over 3.1 million records and was added to the Ancestry.com online archive in 2020. This article looks at what you’ll find in this collection on Ancestry.com. We also give you tips on searching … Read more

Ancestry.com launched a collection of Irish Petty Sessions records in 2020. There are over 23 million records in this collection spanning a period of 1818 to 1919. This article looks at how to get the best use of these records when you’re researching family history. We also look at where you can find this collection … Read more

Are you looking at Ancestry subscriptions and wondering which is best for you? This article guides you through the options with a strategy for getting value for your money. I’ve had Worldwide membership since 2017 and I sometimes upgrade to higher access. But you may only need the cheaper level. Read on to learn how … Read more

Ancestry doesn’t give much publicity to the massive collection of content on the Ancestry Message Boards. Instead, the company has closed many of the older Boards for new posts. This article looks at whether the Message Boards are still useful for genealogy research. The short answer is yes! But I’ll give you lots of tips … Read more

Fold3 operates as an independent company with its own website and membership rates. However, it is part of the Ancestry.com portfolio of websites and archives. Ancestry didn’t establish Fold3 as a new archive, they acquired it by buying and renaming an existing business. This article reviews the current ownership structure. Then we’ll take a quick … Read more