Source Information
J and J Limited Company. Irish Records Index, 1500-1920 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data: J and J Limited Company. Index to Irish Wills. Vol. 1-2. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: J and J Limited Company, 1998.
About Irish Records Index, 1500-1920
After the fire at the Dublin Record Office in 1922, the government appealed for Irish residents to donate any copies of records they possessed. This appeal yielded a large and widely varied collection of information that the Family History Library in Salt Lake City microfilmed in the 1960s. This database is an index to these records now in possession of the Library. Each entry reveals the person's name, date of record, and residence in Ireland. More importantly, the microfilm, box, and item numbers are provided to aid the researcher in obtaining a copy of the original record. These records include histories, pedigrees, parish registers, probates, and orphan's court records. For those seeking Irish ancestors, this index can be a tremendous aid.
The records in this database can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Films: 101011-25, 257841-3, 496361-95, 579477-8, 581925-33, 592932-44, 592952-4, 593622-49, 593653-8, 595358-70, 595937-8, and 823473-5.