It makes me sad to know Ireland (as well as most countries) destroyed or lost so many records over the past 2 centuries. What is the country doing to preserve records since 1911. Are new censuses being performed? Have phone books been digitised? What about school yearbooks?
Thursday 15th Jan 2015, 08:48PM
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There have certainly been censuses in Ireland since 1911. Here?s a link to the National Archives site which explains about censuses post 1911 in the Republic of Ireland:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/help/history.html
The 1926 census for Northern Ireland was sadly destroyed in the second world war, (water damage following German bombing of Belfast). The next census after that was in 1951 and there have been censuses there every 10 years since then.
Phone books and electoral registers have certainly been retained though not all are available on-line. In many cases visits to the relevant repositories are required to view them. These days there is certainly a strong culture in favour of retaining important records.
The current phone books are on-line. For the Republic of Ireland:
http://www.eircomphonebook.ie/?extlink=eircomphonebook
For Northern Ireland:
School yearbooks are probably more something found in US culture. When I was at school (which admittedly wasn?t yesterday) we had never heard of such a thing, and never created any.
Ahoghill Antrim
Thursday 15th Jan 2015, 09:08PM -
That is good news, indeed. Here in America our records have typically been destroyed by fire. ( We pretty much lost the 1890 US census) In modern times flooding does much damage. Thank you for the links. I will have fun exploring them for sure.
Yearbook photos and class pictures have been big business in the US for decades. I wonder if it came about through school affilaiation with sports. that seems to be quite different here than other countries. Our major sport programs are= affiliated with high schools and universities as opposed to clubs. It's been really fun finding such a treasure of old pics online. So far my earliest school photos have been from the 1930's. Another favorite search of mine is newspaper articles. Lately obituaries are becoming more elaborate. Some encorporate humor, whitty narrative, multiple photos as well as family members and accomplishments.
Happy hunting to you
Beth Walsh
Claremont, Ca USA
Friday 16th Jan 2015, 02:37AM