The Irish Family History Foundation announces the addition of over 8000 new nineteenth-century census substitute records for County Kildare to the Roots Ireland database! They are as follows:

• Slater's Trade Directories for Co. Kildare, 1846 and 1881 (3,234 records);
• Thom's Directories, 1849 and 1854 (511 records);
• Voters' Lists of Qualifying Freeholders and Leaseholders from the Leinster Express newspaper, of 1836 (4,533 records).

For more information about these records click here.

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