Over 17 million records online

The Irish Family History Foundation (I.F.H.F.), an all Ireland not-for-profit organization, runs the rootsireland.ie site. It oversees the creation of a database of Irish genealogical sources which enables those who wish to trace their Irish ancestry to have access to all the relevant data in one place. 

Its member centres are based in local communities, working with volunteers, local historical societies, local clergy, local authorities, county libraries and government agencies to build a database of genealogical records for their county.  By using this website you are supporting that work and the communities from which your ancestors originated.

The Irish Family History Foundation has been the coordinating body for a network of county genealogy centres on the island of Ireland for over twenty five years. The genealogy centres’ databases include  parish church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, census returns and gravestone inscriptions. Millions of these records are searchable online, providing a unique resource for family historians not available on any other website. New records will be added as the computerization of sources continues in the local genealogy centres.

'First of all let me say that what you've done with this website is phenomenal! Being able to have all of these locations to search on one website is great for those of us across the pond. Thank you.'

Hi there, just wanted to say thanks for a valuable Irish ancestry source of information. I now have info that I have been waiting a good 25 years to get. 

I just wanted to write and state what a wonderful site the Online Record Search is!  It has helped me tremendously in my research! Thanks for the wonderful site ... and congratulations on making it so useful!  

'I was using the Online Record Search System on the Irish Family History Foundation website and was so excited to find birth records of the children of my great-great-grandparents and of my great-grandparents of Pintown, Roscrea.'