An IGRS Members Discussion Group

• This new IGRS service, courtesy of Yahoo, was launched in February and is only open to IGRS members. Members who opt to join the Discussion Group will be able to post written queries or items of interest and/or post written replies and comments directly to other members in the Group.
• This means that for the first time you will be able to communicate directly with each other, discussing aspects of genealogy, exploring and resolving queries and offering advice and solutions via the Discussion Group. For the first time we will be able to use the knowledge and experience of all our members to help other members. Although this happens in the library when officers and members come face to face and queries are dealt with on a personal basis, we realised that many of you do not have this opportunity for personal contact or the chance to get to know about the genealogical expertise of other members. We hope the Discussion Group will help to fill this vacuum and that we can build a viable IGRS virtual community.
• As this is a new service it may take a little time to develop its full potential but if you would like to join please send an email with your membership number to:– info@igrsoc.org. In reply you will receive an invitation to join the Discussion Group from the moderator, Mary Casteleyn, and, well, the rest will be up to you.

Samples from the Irish Genealogist and a complete table of contents

• Some samples from family histories
• Current and past content of the Irish Genealogist

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.

• Volume 1 Part 1
• Volume 1 Part 2 (Note birthbriefs not indexed)

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.