Irish Genealogy

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…

Birth records in County Cork, Ireland are scattered across civil registration offices, Catholic parish registers, and Church of Ireland archives. Some are online. Most of the older ones aren’t. We help American families find the right Cork register, in the…

Irish marriage records are some of the richest documents in family history. A single page can tell you who married whom, in which parish, with which witnesses standing alongside, and often what the bride’s father did for a living. Knowing…

Searching Irish birth records is the most common starting point in any Irish family research project, and the place where most people get stuck. The records exist in two parallel systems, both of which require knowing where to look. Done…

Tracing your Irish roots can feel like staring at a closed door. The records exist, but most are not on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch. An experienced Irish genealogist can open that door, gather the documents, and put your family story together…

If your search for Irish ancestry has hit a dead end, you might have missed one of Ireland’s crucial checkmarks—the Irish Naming Code. Irish families have kept this strict pattern when naming their children for centuries, and that wasn’t just…