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Subject: Better way to get Irish birth certificate?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:47:38 -0700

The best way to get an Irish birth record is to do the research
yourself. Indexes are available at your local LDS Family History
Center. They include all of Ireland, including Belfast and Armagh.
>From the indexes you can get the volume and page number of the birth
record. Then you write to Joyce House for a copy of the birth
record. If you don't find your ancestor in the 1886 index, try
earlier years. Most 19th Century Irish people did not know how old
they were, and they tended to underestimate their ages.

Civil registration of births in Ireland began in 1864. Protestant births in
1845.

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