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Irish Family History Foundation [IFHF] The Irish Family History Foundation is the co-ordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and in Northern Ireland. The IFHF has genealogy centres based in most counties throughout the entire island of Ireland. A visit to the Irish Family History Foundation website at http://www.irish-roots.ie/ will provide links to all of these centres and indicate the range of sources that are available at each one. The centres covering Northern Ireland and Co. Donegal are: Derry ~ Londonderry Genealogy [formerly Derry Genealogy Centre], Donegal Ancestry, Armagh Ancestry, Irish World [which covers Fermanagh and Tyrone] and the Ulster Historical Foundation [which covers Antrim and Down]. Between them, these centres have computerised millions of Irish genealogical records including church records, census returns and gravestone inscriptions. Perhaps most important are the civil records of marriages which have been computerised for all of the counties. Their databases also include a good, but not always complete, coverage of civil birth records. Until recently only some of the counties had made their records available online. Now, the databases of all the counties mentioned above are available through an Online Record Search System [ORS] at the Irish Family History Foundation Online Genealogy Databases for Ireland website. Here you can search databases of birth, marriage and death records covering all the counties of Ireland for which records have been made available. You can either select all of the counties as one database, or you can select one county and concentrate on it. Note that the following centres, as well as having their records online at the IFHF [ORS] website, have separate websites - Ulster Historical Foundation [Antrim and Down.], Irish World [Tyrone and Fermanagh] and Donegal Ancestry. Usually if I want to
access the Ulster Historical Foundation databases I
go directly to their
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