Irish ancestry

[MrsKingfisher]

I'm helping dh who's Irish trace his ancestry, he has his birth certificate but we can't find him registered at all, I'm a bit lost as to where to start now.

What part of Ireland - North or South ?
Was he born in Ireland ?
I'm helping my dh but he was born and is living in Ireland.

There are census records for the Reblic online. 1911 is one. If he knows the village/town his ancestors came from, you could look there for clues.

If he has a birth certificate he has to be registered!

Was he adopted?

If you have his birth certificate, it tells you where he was registered and all the registration details. Date, place of birth, parents names, occupation of father, address of parents.

I've managed to find his grand parents and great grandparents, census and birth but now I can't connect the deaths because there's not enough info on anything.

Dh is Northern Ireland and everyone on his maternal side was a Protestant, including his grandparents however his mum and much older siblings were all Catholic so there's a story there!

As it's U.K. records you should be able to find them. A lot of records in the Republic were lost by fire.

Have you looked on the www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ website? That is the official government site with birth/death/marriage records and the 1901 and 1911 census.

It's completely free, and you see the original certificates rather than just a transcription. It's a brilliant resource - looking at marriage certs gives you father's name, birth certificates gives both parents and so on. Also has a good resource for baptisms and other church records.

@RaspberryCoulis

Have you looked on the www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ website? That is the official government site with birth/death/marriage records and the 1901 and 1911 census.

It's completely free, and you see the original certificates rather than just a transcription. It's a brilliant resource - looking at marriage certs gives you father's name, birth certificates gives both parents and so on. Also has a good resource for baptisms and other church records.

Thank you, I've traced his grandparents and great grandparents but I'd like to fill it out to find their story for him so they're not just names and dates. It's hard to do if they aren't people of note!

"DH is Northern Ireland and everyone on his maternal side was a Protestant including his grandparents however his Mum and much older siblings were all Catholics so there's a story there."
@MrsKingfisher years ago if a Catholic and Protestant wanted to marry ( known as a mixed marriage ) in a Catholic church the non Catholic spouse would have to often convert to Catholicism and agree to bring any children of the marriage up as Catholics.

Not exactly fair in interfaith marriages but was the norm at the time. I'm not sure when it changed.

Blatantly place-marking as I am part Irish and always wanted to investigate the genealogy of my great grandparents who came from Galway.

Good luck with your search op