When were the irish geneology records burned and by whom?

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When were the irish geneology records burned and by whom?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Not all the Irish census records were destroyed. The 1901 and 1911 returns still survive - it is the earlier 19th century records that were lost. Some went in the 1922 fire, but others were destroyed before this deliberately by the government. A lot of the parish records were destroyed in the fire also, but not all. Copies do exist for some areas, but apart from the IGI website, none of this is online. The proper Birth Marriage and Death registrations also survive from when records begin (1865ish I think from memory) so Irish genealogy isn't a complete dead loss, but there is not a lot of it on the internet. Like Fengirl suggests above, you do need to visit Ireland in person and be a paper-based researcher. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? FAMILY IS MCGUIRE AND I FOUND ALL MY DAD'S RECORDS BACK TO EINSKILLEN CASTLE AND FERMANAGH. Most of the archival records deposited at the PRO in the Four Courts in Dublin were destroyed in 1922 as a result of the Civil War in Ireland. However, not all records were housed at the Four Courts, so there is still plenty of information to be found - I tend to be a paper based researcher, but I'm sure there are plenty of websites. There was a fire in the Public Record Office in 1922, when it was bombed, you'd have to look up the history of the Irish Civil War yourself to find out more. The fire destroyed a lot of records including the census records, but there are other options.
Have a look at this web site for good information as to the location of Irish records http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/guide/co... Civil records may have been destroyed, but archived records still exist, as do parish records. Irish genealogy isn't lost, it just changed location and focus. Fengirl is on to something with being a paper-based researcher. You're not at someone else's mercy as to when you'll get access to records. You figure out what you want and who has it, then get copies pretty quickly. 1922, during a fight, blah, blah, blah,

those records were compiled from originals from the churches, many of those records still exist, it means finding out what area your family come from and which churches they were involved in, and then hoping that those are among the churches that saved those records.

good luck. x In the 1920s, in a major fire. If I remember rightly it started by accident.