Foundations of Irish Genealogy 2: The Major Records I, General Register Office
John Grenham
Jul 15, 2016
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Content
Introduction
1:47
GRO Records
5:42
Registrar General
0:37
GRO Structure
7:24
The Registration System
2:00
Births
4:28
Deaths
3:35
Marriages
3:34
GRO Index
4:07
Doing GRO Research
4:36
GRO Records
4:51
GRO Records Online
13:06
RootsIreland.ie
3:23
IrishGenealogy.ie
3:13
Keep in Mind
1:41
Conclusion
0:20
About this webinar
All Irish births, deaths and marriages were registered by the state from 1864. At least in theory. This talk describes how the system worked, the nature of the records it produced and the many, often confusing ways those records are now available.
John Grenham came to Irish professional genealogy in 1981, as one of the panel of Irish Genealogical Office researchers and later worked for Hibernian Research. As in-house researcher for the Genealog...