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Samples from the Irish Genealogist and a complete table of contents

Download password changed March 2009

The password on all downloads was changed at the beginning of March 2009. Current members wanting to download password protected documents please contact the society using the more information button below.

Smythe-Wood Newspaper Indexes available for download

Thanks to the sterling work of Rosalind McCutcheon, this large collection of is now indexed and available as a searchable 2MB PDF file. The focus of these records in Northern Ireland.
Click here to download series A (Note: you need the new password.)
Click here to download series B (Note: you need the new password.)

The Irish Genealogist on CD-ROM

Members will be pleased to hear that Volumes 1-8 of the The Irish Genealogist, most long since out of print, have been republished on CD-Rom by Eneclann of Dublin who can be found at www.eneclann.ie. Members can purchase a copy of the CD-Rom at half price.

Early volumes of the IGRS Newsletter

The newsletter was started by the late Michael Leader in 1982.  Shortly copies of the early volumes of the Newsletter will be available on the this web site for members with the password.  They will be added progressively here as they are converted to the appropriate format.

Now published

A new edition of The Convert Rolls using Father Clare’s original source manuscript in the IGRS Library (Irish Manuscripts Commission). See The IGRS Millennium Project.