New genealogy records and resources for Irish family history

Irish family history researchers have a host of new resources to explore this month, with major updates across burial, church, land, school, and census-substitute collections. Archives and volunteer projects in Ireland continue to make new material available, helping descendants trace their ancestors with greater detail than ever before.

Fresh transcriptions and photographs of gravestones have been added to the free Ireland Genealogy Projects archive, covering cemeteries in Cavan, Kerry, Limerick, and Wexford. Tipperary Studies has also digitized burial registers from 22 graveyards in North Tipperary, providing access to records from the 1940s onwards.

Church registers have expanded too, with new marriage records from Presbyterian congregations in Strabane, Co. Tyrone, and Carnone, Co. Donegal, along with updates to the definitive List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers, which guides researchers to surviving parish material.

Land and deed collections are another highlight, with transcriptions now available for estates in Galway, Kildare, Limerick, and Wexford. The Registry of Deeds Index Project has surpassed 633,000 indexed records, while FamilySearch has introduced AI-driven search tools for faster name identification.

School records continue to grow, with registers added from Donegal, Mayo, and Sligo, as well as an evocative Wexford list of 111 deserted children from the Famine era, together with details of their foster families.

In Co. Louth, a newly transcribed constabulary list from 1823 offers insight into early policing, while the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland has released 175,000 documents linked to the 1922 fire at the Public Record Office, including over 60,000 names from lost census transcripts.

Researchers can also benefit from new newspaper archives and a biographical database of 11,000 notices from Irish and Canadian press sources, providing valuable leads for families with Ulster roots.