More records useful to people finding their police ancestors are available

Anybody who wants to find out about a relative’s time in the RIC needs to start with their service record and find the service number, according to Michael Guilfoyle.

“Once you get a man’s service records, it opens up so much stuff,” said the administrator of the Facebook group dedicated to the RIC.

Mr Guilfoyle had to visit the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast to find service records for his grandfather, granduncle, and great-grandfather. Further trips to the registry office in Dublin were required to put together more pieces of the family jigsaws.