Niall O'Dowd: I found my Irish roots, now you can find yours

quite a few Irish records from before 1901 are available free on the website: http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie - so far only Kerry and Dublin area are on line - another source for the Kerry/Cork border area is the Casey collection and many of those records have been posted on the www.familysearch.org site - Casey was a researcher who paid people to extract baptism and other records from parish records in the 1950's - published in a multivolunme set that is available in some libraries

YOU DIRTY PRETENDER....

I know exactly what you mean, Niall. I found my father's family in the 1911 census. My Dad was 10 years old and listed as a scholar. He always told us that he was one of 10 children but never said that 2 had not survived. He died when I was 13 so I didn't really get to know any of his family-he was the only one, as far as I know, that came to America.

All counties, not just the four you listed, are now available.

Hi Niall In Clare we go back a bit further the 1901 Census is on line - check out www.clarelibrary.ie

Amazing discovery for you Niall! Thank you for bringing this census information to your website. I have been struggling for 6 years tracing my husband's family on his Mother's side and Father's and come to a dead end. This will help! Much appreciated and needed.

I'll be checking the Ryan family in Rathmore Co.Kerry

i'll be loging on to trace me da and his da and mom and the rest of his family. in coonanna and cahersiveen, county kerry.