Finding Irish family records: free guides

Short, practical guides that use the free official websites. Pick the one that fits your problem.

• Finding a grandparent’s birth record

  Where to look, in what order, and what to do if nothing turns up.

• Name and spelling mismatches

  Why ‘Bridget’ becomes ‘Delia’, ages jump about and surnames lose their ‘O’.

• Northern Ireland births

  Where records for the six northern counties are kept, before and after 1922.

Or go straight to the list of free official sources.