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Researching your Family Tree...

11-September-17

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So you want to research your family tree? Here are some useful websites to get you started. Please click on the links below.

Here is a step by step approach created by Dublin City Council.
Here is a good starting point. You can search both civil and church records.
Please click on the above link to access a guide to searching your family tree produced by the National Archives. In addition, here is a link to the recently digitised Catholic Parish Registers which allows you to access the parish records including details of baptisms, marriages and deaths.
Here is a guide to searching your family tree produced by Dublin City Council
Use the pensions records search to find details of any military records.
Browse some of the Ancestry projects that were submitted under this initiative.
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