Search Room at the General Register Office (GRO)

Please note our walk in office opening hours are follows:

Tuesdays only: 9.30am to 12.30 pm, 2pm to 4.30pm

The Research Rooms offer an email service Monday – Friday where you can request searches or photocopies.

Our searches access all civil registration records up to present day.

Please email your request to GROResearchRoom@welfare.ie and a member of staff will reply as soon as possible.

Email service

Our email service allows greater speed and accuracy when dealing with searches. The service is managed 5 days a week. It accesses all of the civil registration records up to present day and customer searches are frequently provided on a same day service.

This service requires that you have sufficient information to identify a specific entry from the index.

For reasons of data privacy, staff cannot conduct the research for you or conduct searches using speculative or non-specific information.

You can order copies of entries from the registers from our staff in the research room and if you wish to order certified copies of entries, you can still do so from the General Register Office in Roscommon.