Jane Casey

Well, I'm unsure if they're all intact, but from what I hear, largely they are.

There's over 700,000 household records that are included.

And you have to remember at the time,

The population of Ireland was only about 2.9 million.

So it was much smaller population than we have now.

So 700,000 household records would cover nearly all of them.

So I can't say for sure that every single one survived, but it's a pretty complete set.

Yeah, it's absolutely incredible work.

It really is.

The archivists in the National Archives obviously went through

hundreds of thousands of records and painstakingly manually digitise them.

So it's a massive piece of work, but it's such a valuable piece of work.

And for people like me, you know, armchair historians, it's just such an exciting, you know, archive to be able to access because generally, you know, our family history and genealogy and all that stuff, you kind of need help of an archivist or you need to go into the archives yourself.

So to actually put in the work to bring this to the masses, not only here in Ireland, but also

descendants of people who might have emigrated, you know, especially during times of upheaval in Ireland.

It really just, you know, it's such a valuable resource.

It really is.

So I'm so glad they put in the effort because I'm so excited for tomorrow.

It's like Christmas morning.

Yeah, so look, you could probably guess a lot of it.