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This website was awarded the Irish eGovernment Award for Best Accessible Website, 2006

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The Irish Family History Foundation is the coordinating body for a network of county based genealogical research centres on the island of Ireland. These centres have computerised millions of Irish genealogical records, including church records, census returns and gravestone inscriptions. You will find information here about the Irish Family History Foundation centre in each member county. Through them you can have research carried out on your family history from the millions of records which they have gathered over the years.

Centres are now making their records available via an online research system (ORS) which will allow you to search an index of records and pay to view a record. More centres will come online in the coming months. A single database of the records of all counties that are participating will also be available in the coming months. Click on the map (left) to search the currently available records.

Latest News...

17/3/2009
New Proposal to widen eligibilty to apply for an Irish passport for U.S. citizens
Taoiseach announces new proposal to make it easier for U.S. citizens with Irish ancestry to gain an Irish passport.

16/3/2009
Clans of Irelands Lecture
Secretary of the Irish Family History Foundation, Karel Kiely, will give at lecture on the IFHF and its Online Research Service at the Clans of Ireland AGM in the National Library, Dublin, on March 18th, 2009, at 5.30pm

4/3/2009
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2009
IFHF members attended the above show recently in London

15/1/2009
Dublin City Bookfair
It will take place on Sunday, 18th January at the Tara Towers Hotel, Dublin, from 11am—5pm. Admission €2.00