I have been scaling back on blog posts and some other activities since the first of the year to give more concentrated attention to a book project. However, I'll still make short posts for items that appear to be of use to readers.
One such item is the free day coming up this week for a new site for Irish documents. The web site IrishCentral.com announces:
Online "Irish History Day" launched with 21 million birth, marriage and death records released
Dublin-based Findmypast.ie announces inaugural day to celebrate launch of massive genealogy resource
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Online-Irish-History-Day-launched-with-21-million-birth-marriage-and-death-records-released-187578211.html#ixzz2IcG0VRqa Follow us: @IrishCentral on Twitter | IrishCentral on Facebook
Many of you may be familiar with FindMyPast.com. If you are not, think of it as Ancestry.com with a British accent. It is owned by BrightSolid which also owns a number of websites of potential interest to genealogists:
You may want to check out several of them. But don't forget that Thursday may be the most important day for Irish researchers until March 17th.
Thank you, Dave!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome Jody. I hope the response on Thursday does not crash their server. Actually that would be a sign of success.
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