Find your Irish ancestors in new online collection by SHARON TATE MOODY

Those with Irish ancestors and relatives will be delighted to see that the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is making photographic collections available through flickr, a free photo-sharing website.

Wedding and family portraits shot from 1900 to 1952 by Allison Photographic Studios of Armagh are now available.

Record office director Aileen McClintock called the images a "tremendous resource for [those] interested in local history, genealogy and even changing fashions in bridal wear."

The pictures were transferred from fragile glass plate negatives commonly used by photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior to the advent of photographic film.

Visit www.proni.gov.uk/pronionflickr to view the photographs.
The Irish record office also recently indexed and digitized wills dated 1858 through 1900 from three district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast, and Londerry. These records are available at no charge at http://tinyurl.com/2fj38y3.
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Source: Tampa Bay Online