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Irish family history archive data strategy
Oct 30 2008, 16:24 PM
A data strategy to develop an online archive of Irish records has been launched.
The initiative is the brainchild of www.familyrelatives.com and is intended to assist family historians and ordinary members of the public who wish to trace their family history.
The contact data management project will involve the uploading of Irish Wills 1536-1857 and the Irish Genealogical Guide as well as Land Records Ireland among other sources.
The website's 10 million records will be online by the end of the year and quotes the Irish Genealogical Guide to emphasise the significance of the project:
"Wills being of paramount importance for the study of family and social history… the buildings of the Four Courts, Dublin, were destroyed on the 30th June, 1922… [Which] proved to be a serious set-back to genealogical research, as all the original wills deposited therein at the time were burned."
However, the records had not been lost forever as genealogists had duplicated the records, in a poignant data strategy that reinforces the importance of secure data management.
The BBC series Who Do You Think You Are has done much to popularise research into family histories.
In a famous episode, Jeremy Paxman was visibly moved upon learning his widowed great-great grandmother had been forced to bring up nine children in extreme poverty due to a series of injustices.
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