Welcome to the Irish Branch of SRA

Whether you wish to trace your Irish ancestry or explore the past of a property, person, sport or institution, Ireland offers a wealth of facilities for historical research. SRA are the research team behind RTE1's genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are (Mint Productions 2008)

SRA have researchers based all over Ireland, both North and South of the boarder, and we can help you with all aspects of family history, personal heritage and house history research, whether your are just starting out, or have hit a brick wall in your research.

In Dublin, the National Archives and National Library of Ireland furnish a treasure trove of archival and photographic records, dating mainly from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, but reaching back as far as the 1200s.

Their holdings are complemented by the libraries and archives of the Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College and University College Dublin, as well as specialist institutions and collections like the General Register Office, Land Registry and Valuation Office, Dublin City Archive, the Irish Architectural Archive, and the National Folklore Collection. We also have a network of researchers at county archives and local history centres

The first ports of call for family, property, cultural, social or community history in Northern Ireland are the General Register Office and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast, which like their southern counterparts serve as deposits of public records from c. 1600 to the present. More specialist research can be undertaken in City and County archives throughout the Republic and North of Ireland, which hold archival and photographic material relevant to individual locales, and the parish registers of the Roman Catholic Church and Church of Ireland.

SRA's research team use all the archives available to them in order to help you with any enquiry - please contact us for further information.

We also have research teams based in the UK and Australia.