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Acronyms & Abbreviations
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There are quite a few places where I have had to resort to using abbreviations or acronyms in these pages or it can all get a bit too wordy!  So here is a list of them for you to remind yourself of what they stand for;

  • AaI                  Ask about Ireland
  • BMDs              Births, Marriages & Deaths
  • BNA                British Newspaper Archive
  • CoI                  Church of Ireland
  • CIGO               Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations
  • CWGC             Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • DCL&A            Dublin City Library & Archives
  • DIPPAM           Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People & Migration
  • DTCAGSM      Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media
  • FIBIS               Families in British India Society
  • FS                    FamilySearch.org (LDS website)
  • GROI               General Register Office of Ireland
  • GRONI            General Register Office of Northern Ireland
  • IFHC                Irish Family History Centre
  • IFHF                 Irish Family History Foundation
  • IG                     Irish Geneaography
  • IGP                  Irish Genealogical Projects
  • IGRS                Irish Genealogical Research Society
  • IMC                  Irish Manuscripts Commission
  • JAPMDI           Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland
  • LDS                  Latter Day Saints i.e. Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church
  • OCR                Optical Character Recognition
  • OSI                  Ordnance Survey Ireland
  • NAI                  National Archives of Ireland
  • NIPNP             Northern Ireland Place Names Project
  • NLI                  National Library of Ireland
  • NLS                 National Library of Scotland
  • PRAI               Property Registration Authority of Ireland
  • PRONI            Public Records Office of Northern Ireland
  • RC                  Roman Catholic
  • RCB                Representative Church Body (in Ireland) i.e. Church of Ireland administration
  • RCBL              RCB Library located in Braemor Park, Dublin
  • RIA                  Royal Irish Academy
  • SP                   ScotlandsPeople
  • TCD                 Trinity College Dublin
  • UCD                 University College Dublin

I've also tried to differentiate better between free and subscription sources on various paged with the following labels in dark red after the link;

  • (Anc=£) = Ancestry worldwide subscription required to access Irish records
  • (FMP=£) = Find My Past worldwide subscription required to access Irish records or dedicated subscription to www.findmypast.ie 
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