Almost 300 years of Catholic parish registers, containing information on births and marriages, held by the National Library of Ireland have been made available online.
Ciara Kerrigan, the Assistant Keeper of the National Library of Ireland told us earlier that over 100,000 unique users have visited the website in less than 24 hours.
Covering more than a 1,000 parishes throughout Ireland, the registers consist primarily of baptismal and marriage records which typically include information such as dates of baptisms and marriages, and the names of key people involved, such as witnesses or godparents.
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