Thanks to the magnificent work of our volunteers we now have 599,544 index records from 61,893 memorials of deeds in the main database and 600,941 townland index transcription records in that database. All of these are, of course, fully searchable.

The highlighted memorial of this update is https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=227207

This is an update of an earlier indexing by our late friend Rosemary Coleby. It shows how little bits of information tucked away in people other than the parties to the deed. Here there is mention the one of the witnessed Susanna HOLMES was then (in 1775) the wife of William HOLMES-POMEROY was now (in 1781) the wife of John EGAN. Quick checking on-line historic newspapers uncovers John EGAN counsellor-at-law of Cork married the widow HOLMES in August 1779.

This reinforces why having all names indexed is so important to get the most out of this wonderful information repository.