Thursday 6 January 2022

Ireland's RCBL Library updates its Anglican church records guide

The Representative Church Body Library in Dublin (https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/rcb-library), the home to the archives of the Anglican based Church of Ireland, has updated its colour coded church records guide, itemising which records are known to exist and where they are based. From the site:

A total of 54 “new” parish collections that previously were not among the Library’s holdings have been transferred and accessioned during this period – each assigned with their own unique identity numbers, with the result that the Library now holds no less than 1,214 individual parish record collections.


Further information is available at the site's Archive of the Month post at https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/11139/parish-register-accessions-at-the

For a list of accessions in 2020, visit https://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AoftM/2022/January/PDF1_Accessions-of-Parish-Records2020.pdf

For a list of accessions in 2021 visit https://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/AoftM/2022/January/PDF2_Accessions-of-Parish-Records2021.pdf

For the full colour coded guide, visit https://www.ireland.anglican.org/cmsfiles/pdf/AboutUs/library/registers/ParishRegisters/PARISHREGISTERS.pdf

(With thanks to @rcblibrary via Twitter)

Chris

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