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hi everybody
are there any free bmd sites for scotland @ ireland also cenus as well
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Irish census is free but very little before 1901 has survived, though some partial census can be found for just a few years in certain places by searching. Currently, the 1911 is being put on this site
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Read more about their digitisation.
Donegal, Cork, Galway, Wexford and King’s County (Offaly) are the latest batch of counties to be made available. Even though there is still some material missing (in particular, some Irish language returns, and corrections submitted by the public), we have decided to make the material immediately available, in the knowledge that the vast majority of our users will be able to find what they want. Corrections and improvements will be ongoing, and we are very grateful to all users who have submitted corrections to us.
See Future Plans for information about the next releases of material.
Future releases of counties will comprise:
1. Limerick, Mayo, Waterford, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Fermanagh, Kildare, Kilkenny and Leitrim;
2. Londonderry (Derry), Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Queen’s County (Laois), Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Westmeath and Wicklow.
At present, we hope to be placing the first listed tranche online by mid – July, and the second tranche by end -August, but this is subject to our being satisfied that the data meets our required levels of accuracy.
In September, we will be rebuilding the site to include full transcription of all of the data on the household forms for 1911, including religion, occupation, relationship to head of family, literacy status, marital status, county or country of origin, Irish language proficiency, specified illnesses, and child survival information.
1901, with all data transcribed, will be launched towards the end of 2009.
Civil registration started later in Ireland than in England and Wales -
http://www.from-ireland.net/gene/civilregistration.htm
Synopsis
Compulsory civil registration of non-Roman Catholic marriages began on April 1st, 1845. The registration of births, deaths and all marriages commenced on January 1st, 1864. The General Register Office (GRO), holds copies of all civil records for the whole of Ireland, from the commencement of registration, up to and including the year 1921. From 1922 onwards, the GRO holds copies of the records for the Republic of Ireland only, those records for the six counties of Northern Ireland are held by the Public Records Office in Belfast, Co. Antrim.
The indices are arranged in alphabetical order, and include the following information - Surname / Christian name / Name of the Registration District also known as the 'Superintendent Registrar's District' (in which the birth, marriage or death took place) / Volume and page number of the register in which the entry is recorded.
Up to the end of 1877 the indices were arranged alphabetically, by year. From 1878 onwards each year was divided into quarters, January-March, April-June, July-September and October-December. The surnames for each quarter are listed alphabetically.
From 1903 onwards, the index of births included the mother's maiden name.
If your ancestor was born, married or died in Ireland after January 1st, 1864 (and, in the case of a non Roman Catholic marriages after April 1st, 1845) the particular event should be registered. However, many births, marriages and deaths were never registered, during the earlier years.
Irish civil registration indexes for many years have been put on the Mormons' site -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;t=searchable;c=1408347
There are some threads giving tips on Irish research which I shall bring forward later, but I have to go out now until later.
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familysearch has some bmds for Scotland for the before and after civil registration started (1855 I think) but in some cases it only seems to have births/baptisms for one sex! i
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The LDS site Joy mentions has the index for Ireland thru 1921, then for 1922-1958 for Eire only. I don't think the index for NI is online anywhere,
Currently, 9 of 32 counties are available for 1911 - they're all planned to be available by Aug 2009, and they tackle 1901 after that.
(ANT, COR, DON, DOW, DUB, GAL, KER, OFF=King’s, WEX)
FreeCEN is generally much more useful in SCT than ENG. Of the 33 SCT counties, in 1841 there are 21 completed, 9 partial, and 3 (BEW, KKD, SHI) with nothing. 1851 has 9 done + 11 partial; 1861 has 4 done + 5 partial; 1871 has 3 done + 3 partial; Scotish shipping is partial for 1861-1871.
One can see the details at http://www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html and clicking on the details link shows exactly which parishes (piece #s in ENG) are done.
Ancestry gives a partial transcription of Scotish censuses - no images. The fields omitted are marital status, disability, language.
In 1861, there's a col for # of kids at school. Since those kids are given occupations of scholars, it's really a waste of space, and neither Ancestry nor FreeCEN transcribe it.
In 1871, the schooling col was expanded to cover at-home schooling, then it was dropped for later censuses.
In 1861 and thereafter, there was a column for the # of rooms with windows. Neither Ancestry nor FreeCEN transcribe it.
The language question was introduced in 1891. FreeCEN has no SCT censuses after 1871, but it is transcribed on their Welsh 1891 censuses.
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David has acknowledged that he has seen this and sent thanks by PM :-)
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