The release of newly recovered census transcripts is allowing people with an interest in family history to delve even further into their past! 🔍📚 The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has just released 175,000 new historical records, including 60,000 pre-and-post famine names for citizen researchers to explore online. Led by Trinity College Dublin and supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, the VRTI brings together historians, computer scientists, archivists, and librarians, who are working to digitally recreate Ireland’s public record office and its collections, which were destroyed by a fire in 1922. Pictured here inspecting transcriptions of the destroyed 19th-century census are Zoë Reid, Keeper of Manuscripts, National Archives, Ireland and Brian Gurrin, Population and Census Specialist, Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Uncovered amongst the records are notebooks containing names of two households, transcribed from the 1841 census for Hea...