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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:  15 September 2023


25% discount on 12-month subscriptions to RootsIreland

RootsIreland.ie, the database widely regarded as the single most essential for Irish family historians, has the most complete and most accurate set of Roman Catholic church records online. It also offers access to the largest online collection of Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Congregational and Quaker records, plus census substitutes, land records and headstone inscriptions.

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The site's user-friendly index holds more than 23 million records in total and additions join the database throughout the year. This year alone, more than 100,000 records have been added from Counties Kerry, Armagh, Tipperary, Mayo, Clare, Cork, Monaghan and Galway. 

You can check the online sources available for each county here.

To take advantage of this offer, click the image above, register or login and then subscribe.

If you already have a subscription, click My Account, My Subscription and Start a New Subscription. When your current subscription expires, the special deal sub will start.

The 25% discount will be available until 11:59pm (Irish time) on Sunday 17 September.





15% savings on 12-month FindMyPast PREMIUM subscriptions

FindMyPast is offering 15% discounts on its 12-month Premium subscriptions. This applies to all new subscriptions and also to existing subscribers upgrading to the Premium option.

This package includes everything in FindMyPast's database: all worldwide records, all newspaper archives, AND unlimited access to the 1921 England & Wales Census. The latter is available online only at FindMyPast.

You can find out more by choosing one of the flags or links below.

The offer ends at 11:59 pm (BST) on Thursday 28 September.







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:  €25 (IE); £25 (UK); US$30 (USA); $38 CAD (Canada); $40 AUD (Australia).

One-year subscription, including postage: €30 (IE); £32 (UK); US$42 (USA); $45 CAD (Canada); $47 AUD (Australia).

One-year Digital subscription: €15.99 (IE); £13.73 (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 for just £39 plus free access and 50% off!

MyHeritage DNA is offering its lowest price for DNA kits. 

Both offers include free shipping for two or more kits and, when your test has been processed, will provide you with an estimate of your origins and  'match' you with relatives in the MyHeritage DNA database. 

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

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With the second offer - and for exactly the same price - you receive a whole lot more. For example, a free 30-day trial to MyHeritage's database of genealogy records. When that expires, you'll be entitled to claim a 50% discount on an annual subscription to that database; this brings the price down to £114 for the first year.

Click an Order Now button above to find out more.

An expiry date for this Sale has not been confirmed. The company say it ends 'tomorrow' but these tomorrows sometimes last a few days. And even if it doesn't, the same deal may be on offer again in a week or so.

MyHeritage DNA advert Jan 23

With the second offer (see below), and for exactly the same price, you receive a whole lot more. For example, a free 30-day trial to MyHeritage's database of genealogy records. When that expires, you'll be entitled to claim a 50% discount on an annual subscription to that database; this brings the price down to £114 for the first year.

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Click an Order Now button above to find out more.

An expiry date for this Sale has not been confirmed. The company say it ends 'tomorrow' but these tomorrows sometimes last a few days. And even if it doesn't, the same deal may be on offer again in a week or so.




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