Jay a top US genealogist arrived at Mitchelstown Cork to meet his Hennessy cousins only to be told he had found the wrong ones. Being contacted to firefight and solve this mystery we traipsed the byways until we met the matriarch 98-year-old Mary Landers on the Galtee mountains who confirmed almost 100 of his cousins […]

Edith Stohl a Jewish Auschwitz internee in WW2 originally from Czechoslovakia, returned to Ireland 73 years after being offered solace in Clonony Castle, Delvin Co. Westmeath as a 10-year-old girl with her younger sister Maria, and brother Pieter, all parentless. During our guided tour, she visited the run-down castle which was in Nama at the ingenuity

I had the great pleasure of meeting the extravagant Carroll Spinney, aka Big Bird of Sesame Street at Adare Hotel and we traced his grandma Mary Fagan back to Westmeath. Mary emigrated to England in 1913 and married Benjamin Arthur in Brighton. She left him before emigrating and marrying to Jacob Spinney. Their son Carroll

  Name heroines, and inspired women in Family trees. Research can be very rewarding and with every day that passes, more as more records are being made available.  It is the perfect lifestyle hobby to get into right now as we social distance and remain in our homes. For those of you interested in conducting

Prior to my curiosity trip in  2019, I was lucky to arrange a meet up with family Historian Seamus Fox as recommended by the National Library.  Having done some research on my grandfather’s birth, I provided this information to Seamus of Irish Family Search who responded with a  amazing list of my ancestral tribe on

‘All Irish genealogy records destroyed in 1922 fire’: Myth or fact? What is it that makes Irish family history research so challenging? Located of the River Liffey, Dublin’s Four Courts building opened in 1802. By the early 20th century, the four courts had been replaced but the name retained, and the west wing of the

NOSTALGIC MEMENTOS Why not give way to inviting nostalgia to take your fancy and trace the better people that came before us. Make live the ancestors that took those important life steps by telling their stories in what for many were hard lives and sourcing mystery mementos. Family tree Wall Charts A3 , Family Crests,

LIFTING FAMILY SPIRITS Irish family Search profer a special offer to trace family mysteries as a uplifting family pastime during this lockdown. Seek Wise old tales of blood relations at this the oldest hobby of all. Tracing roots is so invigorating for the mind. It’s an innate yearning to search where your people before you

Land leaguer John Mandeville Depart       Seamus Fox Why did John Mandeville have such a big funeral 132 years ago in 1888. To give a flavour of the attendance, some of the cortège hadn’t been able to leave Mitchelstown before the head of the cortège had arrived in old Kilbehenny graveyard 4.5 miles