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12/06/2012
Belfast Cemeteries Open Records To Family-Tracers
People tracing their family trees can now access images of burial records of those interred in three Belfast City Council cemeteries, so long as they have been dead for 75 years or more.
This will allow history buffs, genealogists and amateur sleuths to download records from 1869 onwards and is the latest upgrade by the council since it launched a burial records search facility last year.
About 360,000 burial records are available to search relating to Belfast City Cemetery, Roselawn Cemetery and Dundonald Cemetery.
Images are available to download for £1.50 each from www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords.
Local historian Councillor Tom Hartley said: "We decided to make the records available as over 30% of the feedback we have received about the burial records search facility suggested that we should. They may show information not previously available about the deceased including occupation, marital status, religion and cause of death. Only images of burial records that are over 75 years old are available due to data protection laws but new records will be made available as time goes on."
If you are looking for a record that is less than 75 years old, you can still look it up using the search facility. The search facility can tell you, where available, the full name, last place of residence, sex, dates of death and burial, site and type of burial.
Councillor Hartley said: "You can also view who else is buried in a particular grave by clicking on the grave number contained in your search results."
(NE)
This will allow history buffs, genealogists and amateur sleuths to download records from 1869 onwards and is the latest upgrade by the council since it launched a burial records search facility last year.
About 360,000 burial records are available to search relating to Belfast City Cemetery, Roselawn Cemetery and Dundonald Cemetery.
Images are available to download for £1.50 each from www.belfastcity.gov.uk/burialrecords.
Local historian Councillor Tom Hartley said: "We decided to make the records available as over 30% of the feedback we have received about the burial records search facility suggested that we should. They may show information not previously available about the deceased including occupation, marital status, religion and cause of death. Only images of burial records that are over 75 years old are available due to data protection laws but new records will be made available as time goes on."
If you are looking for a record that is less than 75 years old, you can still look it up using the search facility. The search facility can tell you, where available, the full name, last place of residence, sex, dates of death and burial, site and type of burial.
Councillor Hartley said: "You can also view who else is buried in a particular grave by clicking on the grave number contained in your search results."
(NE)
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