A couple of months ago, FindmyPast released some new Irish records described (rather badly) in this blog post.
The most significant records come from the Office of the Chief Herald/Genealogical Office, National Library of Ireland which has lots of great information, held back by the facts that only a small minority of it is available on line and that most of that is badly described and very badly indexed. FMP's additions help with some of the indexing problems.
FMP's three new additions are indexes to 1) Fisher's Marriages from Exshaw's & Hibernian Magazine 1741-1800, 2) Fisher's will notes and 3) Betham's sketch pedigrees compiled from wills etc. In each case, FMP's search results include an 'index record' with a URL for the relevant volume in the National Library of Ireland and instructions on the page/image number containing the information. In the absence of other indexes of some of this information, this is very useful.
The marriage announcements can be searched here. The search covers two of Fisher's three volumes as only two have been put on line by the NLI. The original volumes were in alphabetical order of grooms; FMP allows you to search by brides for the first time.
Fisher's will abstracts and Betham's sketch pedigrees can be searched here (FMP confusingly groups them together.)
The search covers Fisher's will notebooks A, B and C as these have been put on line by the NLI; volumes D and E have not. The Fisher wills are a mixture of prerogative and constitorial and are very useful. The problem is finding what you want. They should be indexed in the NLI's Sources, but this has recently been messed up. FMP's index is therefore very useful.
FMP already had all the Betham will abstracts (from FamilySearch). The new addition is an index of the Sketch Pedigrees which Betham drew up from them. These are badly described by the NLI as 'Wills, new series' a description which FMP has retained. These books were already in alphabetical order by family, so finding them may not have been so hard. Unfortunately, as with the other volumes, the NLI has not put them all on line. Those available cover surnames beginning H-J, L-Mo, some P-R and Sa-Z.
Those interested in seeing an example Betham sketch pedigree can look at my Watson family (navigate to image 156). This page is probably taken from an edition of Burke; it certainly repeats Burke's mistake in merging two families into one. If you browse to the preceeding and following pages, you will see more typical entries in which Betham constructs a small Watson family tree (usually one of these two Watson families) probably from a single will.
There is an introduction to sources in the National Library of Ireland in Irish Quaker Sources and Resources.
