New databases on ancestry - BIVRI baptisms and marriages

[Mary from Italy]

Yes, isn't it odd. How annoying - I was getting quite excited when I saw 16,000 baptisms for Co. Louth, because the Irish PR site is pretty expensive, and one of my people isn't on it anyway.

[Cloggie]

Doesn't make much sense does it? I've just tried a search entering only "Ireland" for the location and nothing else, and it brought up around 30 records for people baptised in Ireland - many of whom don't have Irish-sounding names. So I wonder if these are the British individuals born in foreign countries? I don't see any mention of London in the records though.

[Mary from Italy]

If you put "Ireland" in the "christening place" box, 29 records come up, not all of which are actually in Ireland.

Maybe they've included them one one of their Irish databases.

[Elaine ..Spain]

One of mine - Irish christening taken from the BIVRI

RUMBLE, Minie Elizabeth
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 26 Oct 1869 Birthplace: 258, "rathmullen, Don, Ire
Recorded in: Donegal, Ireland
Collection: Civil Registration
Father: Henry RUMBLE
Mother: Kate WYNNE
Source: FHL Film 101196 Dates: 1869 - 1870

Searching for Min* Rumble on Ancestry doesn't show the BIVRI entry.

[Jennie H]

It is not 100% accurate. A marriage was given as Bristol but took place in Paddington as from Free bmd complete with scan. But their daughter WAS born in Bristol a year later.
Was that a freudian slip on the part of the transcriber??

[Elaine ..Spain]

Maybe they've included them one one of their Irish databases.

.. or may be the Irish ones just haven't been included.
I cannot see the example I gave above on the new LDS site either, yet it is definitely on the BIVRI discs.

[Cloggie]

The Ancestry description (see my previous post) only refers to the English and Welsh records from BIVRI, so that would suggest that this does not include the Irish records.

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

These are not the complete BIVRI records as I have not found anything from Barton upon Humber & surrounding areas, despite knowing they appear on the discs