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Irish genealogy - Special offers, discounts and deals

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Genealogy discounts and offers come in all shapes and sizes and are announced to coincide with traditional festivals (St Patrick's Day/Christmas, for example), newer commercially inspired events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and at steady intervals throughout the year.

This page of Irish Genealogy Toolkit is updated regularly, so be sure to bookmark it if you want to be certain of picking up a bargain and keeping the cost of your ancestral search under control.

Here are the current special offers and discounts likely to be of interest to Irish genealogists:

Last update:  17 March 2024


RootsIreland's 25% discount should not be missed

RootsIreland.ie is giving motivated Irish genealogists the chance to celebrate St Patrick's Day (and Irish Family History Month) with a generous discount of 25% on the standard price of a 12-month subscription. The offer will remain available until 11:59pm (Irish/British Summer Time) on Sunday 31 March 2024.

The RootsIreland database is managed by the Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF), a not-for-profit organisation that heads up a network of more than 30 genealogy and heritage centres across the island. It currently holds more than 23 million records and continues to grow

RootsIreland advert March 2024

While this database holds civil BMDs, census records, headstone inscriptions and census substitutes, RootsIreland is probably most appreciated for its fabulous collection of church records.

Its Roman Catholic church record collection is widely considered the most complete and most accurate set available online, and its impressive holding of Protestant records including Church of Ireland, Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Quaker and Presbyterian records is second to none. Most of the Protestant records are not accessible online anywhere else.

You can find out more about this offer by clicking the orange 25% OFF button above, or go directly to the website to explore the online sources for each county, or to subscribe.




BIG savings on Irish Newspaper Archives subscriptions

This year's St Patrick's Day brings an opportunity to grab yourself a tidy discount from the Dublin-based IrishNewspaperArchive.com. Two offers are available as follows:

  • Gold Membership: 35% off monthly and annual subscriptions
  • Silver Membership: 30% off monthly and annual subsriptions
INA March 2024 adClick the image above to type in the promo code and view the discounted price for your choice of Membership

Gold membership includes full access to the main Irish Newspapers Archive, which holds some 158 titles, AND full access to its unique Radical Newspapers Archive, which holds 103 titles.

Silver membership includes full access to the main Irish Newspaper Archive, which holds some 158 titles.

The archives offer more than ten million pages of newspaper content from titles published and circulated across the island, some of them dating back to 1738.

New titles and additional content are regularly updated. You can view the list of titles currently available in each archive here.

The generous savings will be available until Sunday 24 March.







Gift packs of Irish Roots magazines

Irish Roots, Ireland's only independent genealogy magazine, has a great gift idea for the genealogist in your life (or treat yourself...  go on, you deserve it).

The quarterly magazine is published in County Wicklow and brings you advice on traditional family history research as well as genetic genealogy; guidance on finding resources for specific areas of Ireland, and on themed collections in North America and Australia; details of newly released or enhanced record-sets; news and comment from Irish genealogy and local history groups; plus Q&As and news of developments relating to Irish genealogy.

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The quarterly magazine is published in County Wicklow and brings you advice on traditional family history research as well as genetic genealogy; guidance on finding resources for specific areas of Ireland, and on themed collections in North America and Australia; details of newly released or enhanced record-sets; news and comment from Irish genealogy and local history groups; plus Q&As and news of developments relating to Irish genealogy.

In other words, it's a useful and informative read for Irish genealogists of all levels of experience.

Gift Pack of 4 recent editions, including postage:  €35 (IE); £35 (UK); US$45 (USA); $50 CAD (Canada); $55 AUD (Australia).

One-year subscription, including postage: €35 (IE); £35 (UK); US$49 (USA); $54 CAD (Canada); $54 AUD (Australia).

One-year Digital subscription: €15.99 (IE); £19.99 (UK); US$ 18.91 (USA); $ 23.96 (Canada); $25.64 AUD (Australia)

On the order page, select your preference under Product Categories. You can click 'switch currency' to find your preferred local currency price.






MyHeritage DNA usually has a sale running

At almost any time of the year, you should be able to find a discount offer on MyHeritage DNA test kits. The amount of saving varies, with the lowest prices for Black Friday, Christmas and other major events in the calendar, but I think it's fair to say that if you can't find an offer, just wait a few days and another one will come around.

As MyHeritage prefer not to advertise the closing dates of their sales, and I have only a limited amount of time to keep updating this page, I rarely include any specific sale details. The images below are from Black Friday 2023, and were the lowest price of the year.

Whenever you buy, you should be able to take advantage of free shipping for two or more kits. There has in recent times been a Best Value option, too, where you can buy a kit and receive a 30-day trial to MyHeritage's growing record collection database. This is a great option, and one I would take up if I were buying another kit from the company.

MyHeritage Black Friday offers 2023

Prices above are in Sterling (£) but if you click the Order now buttons you should be offered the current price in the currency of your MyHeritage 'geographical territory'.





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