Learning

• Tracing your Irish ancestors: A three-step guide by Brian Mitchell added Jun 2022

• Country Guide to Google Search Engines (why it makes a difference what country you are searching in using Google Search)

  • Table of Google Search engines by country

• Dennis Hogan's Lectures and Handouts (primarily self-paced PDF's, quite good) added Jan 2020

• FamilySearch Ireland Genealogy Wiki

• Family History Library Classes and Webinars

  • At the top of this page are the future classes. Scroll down and click on "show" on the right of "British Isles Research Webinars & Handouts", scroll down a little and click on "show" on the right of "Ireland Research Webinars & Handouts" for past webinars you can view.

  • The Scots-Irish: Plantation and Settlement of Ulster in the 17th Century Webinar Handout

• Images of Ireland (ancient and modern)

• Irish Genealogy (National Archives of Ireland's Irish Genealogy Research Course)

  • This course isn't long, and it is in large type! There are 7 modules: surnames, placenames, census, civil, church, property and military. You can take them in sequence or not. You can even download the course in a single PDF. If you want to quickly learn about Irish research, take this one.

• Legacy Family Tree Webinars $, some free

These are 10 to 20 minutes long by John Grenham (YouTube Playlist)

• Welcome to the site (19:44)

• The Griffiths Maps (13:25)

• Is Your Surname Irish? (21:11)

• The 1901 and 1911 Census Maps (12:37)

• The Catholic Baptisms Map (10:29)

• Why can't I find mine? (21.44)

• The Civil Births Map (10:43)

Each of these take 3 to 5 minutes to read (by Donna Moughty).

• Irish Administrative Jurisdictions (18 Feb 2019 - 5 min)

• Getting Started on This Side of the Pond (25 Feb 2019 - 5 min)

• Don't Forget the Collaterals (4 Mar 2019 - 4 min)

• Civil Registration in Ireland (11 Mar 2019 - 5 min)

• Unpuzzling Ireland's Church Records (18 Mar 2019 - 5 min)

• Church of Ireland (25 Mar 2019 - 5 min)

• Roman Catholic Church Records (1 Apr 2019 - 4 min)

• Indexes to Roman Catholic Records (8 Apr 2019 - 4 min)

• Were Your Ancestors Presbyterians? (15 Apr 2019 - 4 min)

• Other Religions in Ireland (22 Apr 2019 - 3 min)

• Irish Census Records (29 Apr 2019 - 4 min)

• 1911 Irish Census (6 May 2019 - 4 min)

• Irish Census Substitutes (13 May 2019 - 3 min)

• Griffith's Valuation (20 May 2019 - 5 min)

• What's After Griffith's? (27 May 2019 - 3 min)

• The Revision Books at PRONI (3 Jun 2019 - 3 min)

• Landed Estate Courts (10 Jun 2019 - 4 min)

• The Tithe Applotment (17 Jun 2019 - 3 min)

• Newspapers (24 Jun 2019 - 4 min)

• Are You Ready to Research in Ireland? (8 Jul 2019 - 3 min)

• Wills and Administrations in Ireland Prior to 1858 (15 Jul 2019 - 5 min)

• Wills and Administrations After 1858 (22 Jul 2019 - 5 min)

• Estate Records in Ireland (5 Aug 2019 - 4 min)

Currently there are only three DNA tests that are applicable for doing genealogy research: Y-DNA, autosomal DNA and mtDNA. None of the DNA tests alone can tell you anything, it's just a bunch of numbers. Initially it's your relationship with "other" testers that count and the bigger the pool the company has the better. There are DNA comparison services which can take a test farther for relationships, typically the autosomal DNA test.

• The Y-DNA test is for males only and follows paternal male only line, from son to father to grandfather and so on.

  • Available from: FamilyTreeDNA

  • Learn more: FamilyTreeDNA Y-DNA

• The autosomal DNA test can be taken by a male or female. It identifies the relationships of the tester with other testers (with the same company) in a somewhat general way. It is not particularly exact once you are farther than a parent or sibling and is reasonably good for about 5 generations back.

  • Available from: Ancestry (called AncestryDNA), FamilyTreeDNA (called Family Finder), MyHeritage (called MyHeritageDNA) and 23andMe (called ). There are other testing companies which do not yet have large databases of testers with which to compare.

  • Learn more: Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe

• The mtDNA test can be taken by a male or female and follows the material line, from son or daughter to mother to mother and so on.

  • Available from: FamilyTreeDNA

  • Learn more: FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA

Learn more about DNA tests in general:

• FamilyTreeDNA Basics

• Donna Moughty's Blog

  • DNA - Where Do I Test?

  • DNA - Where Do I Test? Part 2

  • How to use your DNA Results in Irish Research

  • Breaking an Irish Brick Wall with DNA

  • Combine Cluster Research with DNA