The following details come from the Irish Family History Foundation newsletter:

In 2026 so far, we have uploaded the following records to our database at www.rootsireland.ie:

• 22,402 new Church of Ireland and Presbyterian Church and Gravestone Armagh records;

• 9825 Tipperary records – Cappawhite RC baptisms and marriages;

• 43,652 records from the Boston Globe’s ‘Missing Friends’ series and Annaghdown graveyard records (Galway);

• 24,000 Clare records – civil births, marriages and deaths;

• 8278 Kildare nineteenth-century census substitutes.

This means that so far in 2026, we have uploaded approximately 108,157 records from Armagh, Clare, Kildare, Galway and Tipperary!

We have many more records coming for the Roots Ireland database throughout this year, so keep an eye out for our updates!

You can read more about the various records which have been uploaded in recent years on our blog at www.rootsireland.ie/category/blog/