In a Fox News Digital exclusive, Ancestry.com and Guinness brewery release 1.6 million records on March 8 that could impact the family history of millions of Irish Americans.
FIRST ON FOX: The Guinness Storehouse at St. James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland houses more than just the secrets of Ireland’s famous pillow-soft, ruby-black stout. It also houses one of the world’s richest repositories of Irish ancestry. Guinness has teamed with Ancestry.com to make its treasure chest of Irish family history – a total of 1.6 million records – available online to people around the world for the very first time starting at 10 a.m. ET on Friday, March 8.
The Republic of Ireland has boomed in population in recent years, but remains a tiny country of only 5 million people. 'In some cases, this will be the only written record that exists in Ireland of your family.' But the Irish spawned perhaps the world’s greatest immigrant success story. More than 30 million people in the United States alone are of Irish descent. Yet 'there’s a dearth of official records' of Irish heritage, Guinness archivist Eibhlin Colgan told Fox News Digital.
The ancestry of millions of people alive today went up in flames that day. 'In some cases, this will be the only written record that exists in Ireland of your family,' said Colgan. 'It’s a very important collection for Guinness. But it’s really important at the national and international level to bridge the gap in government records that have not survived.
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