Important Irish CD-Rom Resources
Cemetery Records
Irish Parish Records: Antrim, Louth, Down is published by Ancestry, and includes primarily tombstone inscriptions from these counties.
Censuses and Census Substitutes
Index to Griffith’s Primary Valuation, 1848-1864, produced by Broderbund in cooperation with Irish World in Co. Tyrone and Genealogical Publishing Company. [Family Archives CD#188. Order from Genealogical Publishing Company, 1001 North Calvert St, Baltimore, MD, 21202; Tel: 1-800-296-6687; www.genealogical.com or www.genealogy.com.
Indexes to the Tithe Books for No. Ireland counties and the 1796 Spinning Wheel Survey, Family Archives CDs, see www.genealogy.com
The William Smith O’Brien Petition 1848-49, The 1851 Dublin City Census (CD-Roms produced by Eneclann Ltd., Director of Publications, Innovation Centre, The O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland; Tel: +353 1 6710338; Fax: +353 1 6710281
Civil Registration
LDS Church’s Vital Records Index British Isles, Second Edition (2001): "Irish Civil Registration of births c1864-1875 and marriages c1845-1863" You can purchase online at FamilySearch.
Also see the International Genealogical Index on-line at www.familysearch.org for indexes to births c1864-1867 and marriages c1845-1847
Inventories of Records
John Grenham’s Irish Recordfinder CD-ROM published by John Grenham or see the on-line version on the Irish Times Irish Ancestors web site.
Passenger Lists
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846-1865 (Family Archives CD#357): Includes 1.5 million Irish immigrants arriving in Boston, 1846-1851, and New York, 1846-1865, from the original manifests, a project of the Balch Institute and the Kennedy Trust in New Ross, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, Volume 2, 1846-1886 (Family Archives CD#264)
Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871 (Family Archives CD#257). Contains 12 volumes of compiled passenger lists with about 46,000 Irish who arrived in the US and Canada. Includes Frances McDonnell’s Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743 and Brian Mitchell’s extracted emigrant lists, 1803-1806, 1833-1839, 1847-1871.
Wills and Administrations
Indexes to Irish Wills, edited by W.P.W. Phillimore. London, 1909. 5 Volumes. ISBN 1-58211-180-4. CD-ROM Reprint, 1999. CD34/51, published by Quintin Publications, 22 Delta Drive, Pawtucket, RI, 02860-4555, USA
Index to Irish Wills 1484-1858, published by Eneclann Ltd., Director of Publications, Innovation Centre, The O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland; Tel: +353 1 6710338; Fax: +353 1 6710281. This is an index to records at the National Archives of Ireland, only concerned with those records which survive in more than index form.
Super Will Index, by Gloria Bangerter, part of Index of Irish Microfilms at the Family History Library, Volume W, edited by Joyce Parsons and Jeanne Jensen (J & J Limited). This is a combination of all the surviving diocesan indexes to wills and administrations (pre-1858) for Ireland.
Irish Records at the Family History Library
Index of Irish Microfilms at the Family History Library, Volumes 1-4 and W. Joyce Parsons and Jeanne Jensen (J & J Limited). Volume W is actually the Super Will Index by Gloria Bangerter.
Further Information
See the article "CD-ROMs for Irish Research" at http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/gencomp/4394.asp
