Irish Genealogy

Irish birth records in the 1800s split into two worlds. Before 1864, parish registers do all the work. After 1864, Civil Registration adds an official second source. Knowing which world your ancestor was born into determines where to look first.…

Irish ancestry research is the work of turning a family story into documented people, places, and dates. Done well, it takes more than a database search. It takes a method that pulls American records, Irish archives, and parish-level sources into…

Tracing Irish ancestors is the work of turning a family name into real people, real places, and a real story. Most searches stall at the Atlantic because online tools cannot reach the records that hold the answers. Professional research connects…

A genealogist based in Dublin opens more than just Dublin records. The city holds the national archives, the National Library of Ireland, and the diocesan collections for half of the country. The right Dublin researcher knows when to stay in…

Finding your Irish ancestors starts with finding the townland and parish where they lived. Names alone are not enough, and online databases stop at the same wall most families hit. Professional research opens what stays offline, including parish registers, land…

Family history in Ireland is its own kind of research. The records sit in archives that do not appear on Ancestry.com. The handwriting is in Latin or 19th-century English. The parishes do not match the modern county lines. Done right,…

Ireland’s 19th-century censuses are mostly gone. The 1922 Four Courts fire destroyed them. What survived is the 1901 and 1911 census in full, a few fragments from earlier years, and a set of land surveys that act as census substitutes.…

Irish family history research isn’t a database lookup. It’s a careful walk through parish registers, land valuations, and civil records that most online tools never touch. We help American families turn a name and a county into a real story.…

To trace Irish ancestry, you need a method, not a database. We start in American records, cross to Ireland with a defensible parish, and work backward through Civil Registration, Catholic parish books, Griffith’s Valuation, and the Tithe Applotment Books. The…

Northern Ireland genealogy is its own discipline. The records sit in different archives, run on different rules, and split between Catholic, Presbyterian, and Church of Ireland lines. As a genealogist for Northern Ireland, we know which Belfast archive opens which…