Website lets people delve 300 years into their past

THREE centuries of Irish records will be published online today, detailing more than 40 million records of births, marriages and deaths between 1742 and 1958.

Family history website, ancestry.co.uk, will launch the Irish Catholic Parish Records from 1742-1884 and has extended the Irish Birth, Marriage and Death indexes on the site by 40 million records.

The huge collection of parish records will allow people of Irish heritage from around the world to dig deeper into their roots.