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The Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys TD, has congratulated the team in her Department which oversees the genealogy website www.irishgenealogy.ie after it was awarded the "Promoting Ireland Overseas Award" at the Ireland eGovernment Awards.

Speaking today Minister Heather Humphreys TD, said:
“This award is a testament to the hard work of the staff in my Department who have made www.irishgenealogy.ie the go to website for anyone looking to research their Irish Ancestry. Since the addition of the Historic Civil Register images to www.irishgenealogy.ie in September 2016, over half a million visitors have searched the website, with nearly two thirds of those visiting the website doing so from outside Ireland.

“I would like to congratulate the staff in my Department including the National Archives for their work in making this website the success it is today. I would also like to pay tribute to the staff of the General Register Office and the Department of Social Protection for their work in making the Historic Civil Registers available to my Department to put online. This is a great example of how cross Departmental cooperation can deliver very positive results for members of the public.”

Notes to Editors:

Promoting Ireland Overseas: This category recognises the key role international inward investment and exports from Ireland play in our economy. It rewards the use of online to support the promotion of Ireland overseas.

This category was open to any organisation whose use of the web promoted Ireland to encourage investment, trade, tourism, international relations and education.

Details of the Ireland eGovernment Awards can be found here.

www.irishgenealogy.ie is a website that allows users the opportunity to search a wide range of record sources in their search of their Irish Ancestry. The website is home to the on-line historic Indexes of the Civil Registers (GRO) of Births, Marriages, Civil Partnerships and Deaths and to Church Records of Baptism, Marriage and Burial from a number of counties.

The website also operates as a search portal that allows users to search the following record sources as well, these include:
1901/1911 Census records and pre-1901 survivals
Census Search Forms from 1841/1851
Tithe Applotments
Soldier’s Wills
Griffith’s Valuations
Ireland - Australia Transportation database
Military Archives
Ellis Island
National Photographic Archive from the National Library of Ireland

www.irishgenealogy.ie is a website operated by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.