I don't have my own subscription to Ancestry so am always looking for sneaky new ways to squeeze as much information as possible from their indexes without subscribing.

Yesterday I discovered a new trick with their Irish civil registration indexes.
  1. Find one partner in the marriage on the FamilySearch index.
  2. Note the year, district and page number.
  3. Go to Ancestry 'Irish Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958'.
  4. Type the year and location in the appropriate boxes and put the page number in the Keyword box (leave the name fields blank).
  5. Click 'Search'
  6. Hey presto! You get a list of all the people on that page.


In the ones I've tried there are up to eight couples, i.e. four marriages, on the same page. Still, it helps narrow down which is the right marriage.