The Workhouse Registers contain details of people residing in institutions set up for poverty relief across Britain and Ireland. Find My Past has the biggest collection of Workhouse records available online. This article looks at what you’ll find in these collections on Find My Past. We also give you tips on searching for what you … Read more
Find My Past gives you access to browse, search, and view the mid 19th-century record collections of the Irish Revenue Police. This specialist police force targeted illegal distilleries that avoided customs and excise duties on alcohol. In other words, the poitin makers! They were nicknamed the Potcheen Hussars. There are nearly 38 thousand records from … 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. This article looks at what you’ll find in this collection on Find My Past. We also give you tips on searching for what you need. What Is In The … Read more
The Irish collection of Dublin Prison Registers contains details of people incarcerated in the city prison between 1836 and 1840. The collection has just under thirty thousand records. This article looks at what you’ll find in this collection on Find My Past. We also give you tips on searching for what you need. What is … Read more
The Irish collection of Outrage Reports contains details of criminal events between 1836 and 1840. The collection has over 18 thousand records from the entire island of Ireland. This article looks at what you’ll find in this collection on Find My Past. We also give you tips on searching for what you need. What Does … Read more
The Irish collection of Evicted Tenants contains eviction details from applications for financial assistance in 1907. The collection has about 3,400 records from the entire island of Ireland. This article looks at what you’ll find in this collection on Find My Past. We also give you tips on searching for what you need. Who And … Read more
The Dublin Electoral Rolls archive contains records for individuals who were allowed to vote in the city from 1898 to 1916. The paper records are being digitized and archived by Dublin City Council on their website. Although the paper records span 18 years, the archive has digitized a subset from 1908 to 1915. This article … Read more
If your ancestors worked on the land in Ireland in the 1820s and 30s, there’s a chance they may appear in the Tithe Defaulters List of 1831. The records are held at the National Archives in Dublin. They are also available to search online with a subscription to Find My Past. The second half of … Read more
Find My Past has two collections of Irish marriage records. One collection is the index to the civil registration records. The other collection has transcripts and images of parish church marriage records. This article explains how to find what you need from the civil registration archive. Irish Civil Marriage Records On Find My Past We … Read more
Find My Past gives you access to browse, search, and view the 19th and early 20th-century record collections of Royal Irish Constabulary. This article explains the background of the constabulary records and the kind of detail you’ll find within them. We’ll also look at some alternative free and commercial sites that have similar access. Royal … Read more