Ireland’s genealogy experts join forces to provide Irish ancestry info

I.N. Anyone whose Irish ancestors emigrated prior to 1920 left a country called Ireland, not a place known as "the island".

Expanding Irish genealogy research is welcomed! I have many Irish ancestors and further resources would expand my genealogy history. Thanks for the efforts and for reporting this information. Monty Ousley Weddell Dallas, TX, USA

The salient point above is that geneaology is as pertinent to the Irish lving in Ireland as to Irish-Americans visiting, working/studying or returning to Ireland. Many people since teh urbanisation of Ireland haven't a buls notion of who they are or where thieir people came from on the island. Good luck with this venture in an age of disappearing nations and nationalities.

irishtxn, parishes have parish records at the parishes. Many are copied and available at the National Library of Ireland or the Church of Ireland Archives if they survive. Many don't survive. Many don't go back far enough to find records for those who emigrated. It all depends on where the ancestor was born in Ireland what records are available and how they can be accessed.

carrickcourt, thank you. Yes, it's not just my family name is Murphy and they came from Ireland but more often my ancestor whoever Murphy emigrated from Ireland and I want to know where and find all living relatives now!

To carrickcourt, Although this true, not all parish's have all documentation of the families. Most are now kept at Trinity College in Dublin! My mother tried many years ago to do just that in the County that her great grandmother came from and really couldn't find anything out!

To George Dillon. Genealogy is a record of the ancestry and descent of a person or family. Therefore, the Angolans, Armenians etc. would need to search their ancestry in that country. Genealogy is NOT the study of present day residents of Ireland.

Irish-American tourists Do Not go to these places with family history information like "my family name is Murphy and I know my ancestors came from Ireland". If your family name is Murphy you have to know exactly where your Murphy's were from in Ireland and when they left Ireland.

How about the New Irish? Don't Poles, Angolans,Armenians etc get to have their genealogy traced? This is so unfair and discriminatory.