The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is making photographic collections available through flickr, a free photo-sharing website. Wedding and family portraits shot from 1900 to 1952 by Allison Photographic Studios of Armagh are now available.

The pictures were transferred from fragile glass plate negatives commonly used by photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior to the advent of photographic film. Only about 200 images currently are available but over the next few weeks, all 15,330 will be posted. Viewers can browse them alphabetically by surname. Visit www.proni.gov.uk/pronionflickr to view the photographs.

The Irish record office also recently indexed and digitized wills dated 1858 through 1900 from three district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast, and Londonderry. These records are available at no charge at http://applications.proni.gov.uk/DCAL_PRONI_WillsCalendar/WillsSearch.aspx.