Good Website for searching irish ancestors, bit like ancestry.com or findmypast.

Question:

Good Website for searching irish ancestors, bit like ancestry.com or findmypast.com?

i am doing my family tree and my ancestors are from scotland and ireland, but i am having trouble finding a website which i can search for births, deaths and marriages in Ireland, does anyone know of any good sites i can try, please help, thanx

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I use www.irishgenealogy.ie

They have:

32 County Commissioned Births & Baptismal Research

IFHF Central Signposting Index (3,198,125 Records) - Records from 11 Counties (Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo, Tyrone & Wexford)

Ireland's Gravestone Index (389,501 Records) - Gravestone Inscriptions from 10 Counties (Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan, & Tyrone)

Ireland's Memorial Records - World War 1 (1914-1918) Records compiled by the Committee of the Irish National War Memorial and recording the names and year of death of the 49,400 Irishmen who died in the Great War.

Householder's Records

Ulster Covenant Search - The archive of the Ulster Unionist Council, held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), contains just under half a million original signatures and addresses of the men who, on 28 September 1912, signed the Ulster Covenant, and of the women who signed the parallel Declaration. In total, the Covenant was signed by 237,368 men, and the Declaration by 234,046 women.

Freeholders' Records - Freeholders' records are lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections. A freeholder was a man who owned his land outright (in fee) or who held it by lease which could be for one or more lives.

There are also various county sites run by volunteers available by doing individual searches, siuch as www.lalley.com or www.raymondscountydownwebsite....

You could also try the The LEITRIM-ROSCOMMON Elphin Census Search Page (Synge Census - 1749)

www.irelandoldnews.com has obit indexes gathered from a variety of sources for the Irish born who died elsewhere

Boston College also has the "missing friends" ads placed by the Irish in Boston at www.infowanted.bc.edu