On this day in 2022, I started @projectinfant.ie, it's come on leaps and bounds from when it first began. On the website itself it's been a little quiet, but behind the scenes there is plenty going on and will eventually upload! Thank you to those who have supported me along the way! ❤️ #Genealogy

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In light of the release of the #1926Census, Project Infant volunteers are currently working on adding enhanced transcripts of the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses for various institutions in Ireland. You can view the ones we have so far (with more on the way) here: projectinfant.ie/census

Thank you to @pjcoogan.bsky.social of Cork's 96FM for chatting to me about my work at @projectinfant.ie. Listen to it here: youtu.be/Rv1-C5c9Ohk / open.spotify.com/episode/0z2z... #MotherandBabyHomes

96FM Opinion Line Interview - Daniel Loftus - March 30th 2026

YouTube video by Daniel Loftus Genealogy

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Registered a child’s death who had died in a Dublin mother and baby home that had over three thousand dead almost 87 years after she died. Will forever be glad that she now has a death record. #MotherAndBabyHomes #Genealogy

Family Tree Magazine@familytreemag.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Let's all just brag and celebrate each other for a moment: what's the genealogy-related or research win you had this year? Positive vibes only! #genealogy #FamilyHistory

A hearty thank you to @adultadoptee.bsky.social for letting me speak to their members about the work we do at @projectinfant.ie in trying to restore the names of those who died in mother and baby homes, industrial schools & Magdalene Laundries around Ireland… watch here! ⬇️ youtu.be/eJJ9TjeauJU?...

Daniel Loftus speaks to adoptees about Project Infant (26 Nov 2025)

YouTube video by Adult Adoptee Movement (UK)

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I have a lot to say, but can't put it all into one post, so hopefully the image below will express it better than 280 characters could ever. It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done. Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍 🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster

Whenever this happens, it's a good sign... #MotherandBabyHomes #ProjectInfant #NewAdditions

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Daniel Loftus@danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 11mo ago

Whenever this happens, it's a good sign... #MotherandBabyHomes #ProjectInfant #NewAdditions

The Good Shepherd Sisters have announced there’s work underway to update the gravesites of the High Park & Sean McDermott Street Laundries. There’s 327 names due to be added. 3 newly-discovered graves belonging to the congregation have also been found. goodshepherdsisters.ie/news-events/...

Man (81) calls for family DNA samples for Tuam remains to extend to cousins

Man (81) calls for family DNA samples for Tuam remains to extend to cousins

Under the Institutional Burials Act, cousins can not provide DNA for identification purposes at the Tuam Mother and Baby home excavation

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Honoured to be included alongside Ted Steede in (Below) this piece. Cousins should have been included no matter the difficulty (for what the DCEDIY are claiming) — better to have the sample then do some good ol’ DNA research to find out how they’re related, right? Catch it here. ⬇️

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last yr.

Man (81) calls for family DNA samples for Tuam remains to extend to cousins

St. Joseph's Industrial School on the our website has had some additions. Full transcripts of every death cert of an Artane Industrial School death has been added. projectinfant.ie/the-homes/ar... Improved transcripts of the 1901 Census (projectinfant.ie/the-homes/ar...) and...

3 years ago today, I took a chance. Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me. With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far. More to come!

The plot is poorly kept, with the only two 'monuments', a broken plaque for Julia O'Donoghue in May 1984 & a metal cross with the wrong name inscribed: Doris Walsh instead of Ann Walsh in January 1985. Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.

In November of 1927, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary purchased three graves, combined into one plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork. This is what the grave looks like now. @timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot. 17 people are buried here.

Had the legislation for this been better thought out & way more inclusive than it currently is, that number would be much higher. Not to mention, how many of the 796 missing children have family that know about them? #MotherAndBabyHomes www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children

Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order

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It shouldn't require an exhumation for archives from religious orders who ran mother and baby homes to be made available. Just sayin'. #MotherAndBabyHomes

Dr Rachel Murphy@rachelmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

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A week today, this will begin. Let there be answers. #MotherAndBabyHomes news.sky.com/story/intern...

International experts join mass grave excavation at former mother and baby home in Ireland

It is hoped that excavation work will lead to the identification of the remains of 796 children who are believed to have died at St Mary's home between 1925 and 1961.

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Looking forward to attending the premiere of "In Plain Sight" by @nollieb.bsky.social & Camille O'Sullivan with @sharonloftus.bsky.social tomorrow. Please do try and make this if you can! Tickets are available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

In memory of the 923 children & 32 mothers who died between 1922 and 1994 in / connected with Bessborough House. See next post for ALT-text. [Note: We only have 890 children & 25 mothers, but we're working hard at @projectinfant.ie to try and find the remaining names.] #MotherAndBabyHomes [1/2] ❤️

Will do more tweeting about the #Bessborough commemoration but feel this in itself deserves a separate post. Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research. A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.

While there is a large focus on Tuam at the moment, we can't let #Bessborough or any other #MotherAndBabyHomes with hundreds of missing burials slip by either. We need investigations. Into Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and more, then we do memorialisation. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Other burial sites must be identified, says survivors’ advocate after exhumation preparation begins in Tuam

Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried

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The fact I'm still being asked "How do you get information from being in a mother and baby home?" or "How do I go about getting redress?" makes me frustrated. Not at them, but at the very campaigns that were supposed to do this. For help on getting your birth information, see: projectinfant.ie/faq

11 years it took to get to this point. May the remains of those buried here be reinterred somewhere more respectful. 24 months this is envisioned to take, and that starts now. #MotherAndBabyHomes

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last yr.

The process of excavating children’s unmarked burials at the site of a former mother and baby institution is commencing in Tuam this morning, years after their existence was uncovered. http://jrnl.ie/6732707

By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil. It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi. 🧵

After 11 years, the Tuam exhumation finally has a date. June 16th, 2025. This is less than a week away! At long last, the journey for proper answers will begin. #MotherAndBabyHomes

An unusual favour. I have a chance of potentially making money from TikTok to help pay costs incurred when doing @projectinfant.ie. If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/

As I am unable to add ALT-Text / if you have trouble reading the images, I have uploaded an accessible file with all the names in the images above. See: projectinfant.ie/the-homes/tu... to download / view the file.

With the Tuam exhumation due to begin in mid-June, these are the over 800 most important people at the centre of this. Found by Catherine Corless and shared with the world in 2014, it's taken 11 years to get to this stage. #MotherAndBabyHomes (Red = mothers) [Accessible file version, see post 2]