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:* From 8 September 2016, '''images''' of the General Register Office's historical birth, marriage and death registers are also available online. Due to privacy restrictions, birth records from the past 100 years (after 1915), marriage records from the past 75 years (after 1940) and death records from the past 50 years (after 1965) are not available.
:*Updated 08 January 2020, additional records have been released, with '''births''' to '''1919''', '''marriages''' to '''1944''', and '''deaths''' to '''1969'''.
*FamilySearch contains a collection of Indexed records which may be searched, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2659409 Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913] based on a series of microfilms which have been digitised but which are not available for viewing. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/ Search FamilySearch] further for other datasets. Note, you must first be signed in to [[FamilySearch]], a free website. Also [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog Search the Catalog] and [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/ Search Books/Digital Library] where , as an example [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/678470-o-kief-coshe-mang-slieve-lougher-and-upper-blackwater-in-ireland-v-01 catalogue entry] Volume 1/15, counties Kerry and Cork.
*[http://registers.nli.ie/ National Library of Ireland: free online Catholic Parish Register images: Baptisms and marriages to 1880 and others]. Introduced 8 July 2015. These images are not indexed by name, so you will need to know the relevant parish. Although the description says the records are Baptisms and marriages only, it appears other records are included also.
:'''Update''' October 2016. These records are also available on [[Findmypast]], a pay website, as Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Registers Browse (located in Life events (BMDs)/Parish Registers). Significantly it is stated "we have further indexed the records, which means that they are available for '''search by name'''". Findmypast also has databases Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (3 separate databases), (located in Life events (BMDs)/Parish Registers) and Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records, located in Life Events (BMDs)/Religious Ceremonies, with images, all sourced from National Library of Ireland, (and with links to the image on NLI Registers website).
***[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2573/ Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958] (located in " Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish"). Index records only, sourced from the GRO (General Register Office) in Dublin, and from the GRO in Belfast, the latter records for Northern Ireland.
**[https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/search-gronis-online-records Search GRONI's online records] General Register Office NI [Northern Ireland] (GRONI). The credits which need to be paid are for searching only. Certificates must be purchased separately. '''Note''', the records prior to 1922 for what is now Northern Ireland are also available on the free website IrishGenealogy.ie, refer above.
**[https://www.ancestryireland.com Ulster Historical Foundation], [Northern Ireland] a non-profit organisation formed in 1956 . Search for birth, death & marriages (BMD), census records, street directories etc. Church registers from Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, a few other churches. Some civil records. Some free records, mostly Pay-Per-View, and some Member Only. Pay-Per-View coverage: [https://www.ancestryireland.com/search-irish-genealogy-databases/genealogical-sources/bdm-sources-list-county-antrim/ Online Records for County Antrim] (includes Belfast), [https://www.ancestryireland.com/search-irish-genealogy-databases/genealogical-sources/bdm-sources-list-county-down/ Online Records for County Down] (of six Counties). Most appear to be pre 1922 records. Members receive a 50% discount on Pay-Per-View records, in addition to other benefits.**[https://www.rootsireland.ie RootsIreland.ie] subscription website owned by Irish Family History Foundation. "The main sources on the site are Irish Catholic and other church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths" .
**[https://www.irishancestors.ie The Irish Genealogical Research Society] includes [https://www.irishancestors.ie/early-irish-indexes/ Early Irish Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes] 1660 to 1863, being transcriptions from many sources. "Access to the marriage index is completely free to all and the birth and death indexes allow name searches for non-members".
*[https://www.rootstech.org/video/a-strategic-approach-to-irish-genealogy "A Strategic Approach to Irish Genealogy"] by Maurice Gleeson. Video of 2019/10/25 London RootsTech Session about sources.
