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    National Library of Ireland’s ‘significant’ genealogy project

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    By SLpeter on February 12, 2015 News

    The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has introduced details of its ‘most ambitious digitisation project to date’.  The project will see the library’s entire collection of catholic parish register microfilms made available online – for free – by summer 2015.

    The records are considered the single most important source of information on Irish family history prior to the 1901 Census. Dating from the 1740s to the 1880s, they cover 1,091 parishes throughout the island of Ireland, and consist primarily of baptismal and marriage records.

    Commenting today, Colette O’Flaherty, Head of Special Collections at the NLI, said: “This is the most ambitious digitisation project in the history of the NLI, and our most significant ever genealogy project.  We believe it will be of huge assistance to those who wish to research their family history.  At this stage, we have converted the microfilm reels on which the registers are recorded into approximately 390,000 digital images.  We will be making all these images available, for free, on a dedicated website, which will be launched in summer 2015’.

    The 390,000 digital images due to be published by the NLI will be searchable by parish location only.  They will not be transcribed or indexed by the NLI, and the images will be of the microfilms of the original registers, which – in some cases – were in poor condition when the microfilming took place.  The images will be in black and white.

    Further details of this digitisation project will be announced by the NLI in the coming months.

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