Once I learned that I was not from Puerto Rico, digging into the new family I learned that there were more family secrets to be uncovered. I took a Y-DNA test and found out that my roots clearly land up in Ireland. Even more than that was a story floating around about my great grandfather. Seems that he was adopted himself. It all adds up and DNA cousin matches seem to confirm what DNA told me, I am a LEAHY from County Kerry in Ireland. Now I just have to connect the dots. Below are some of the many resources I found helpful. I hope they are useful to you as you search out your Irish roots.
Irish Genealogical Sites
Article in the Irish Times that gives many resources for developing your tree
Genealogist’s handbook for Irish research by Marie E. Daly with Judith Lucey NEHGS, 7th Floor Reference, 5th Floor Stacks, 1st Floor International Collection, CS483.D35 2016
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide by John Grenham NEHGS, 7th Floor Reference, CS483.G73 2019
Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History by James G. Ryan NEHGS, 7th Floor Reference, CS483.R83 1997
Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600–1800 by William J. Roulston, NEHGS, 1st Floor International Collection, CS448.U45 R68 2018
Irish Resources at NEHGS – Live broadcast: March 25, 2014. Presented by Judy Lucey. Discover what Irish resources await you at NEHGS—both on-site and online, plus, gain a basic understanding of the concepts essential to Irish research. For online versions of “General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland” (mentioned in the lecture) visit: irishancestors.ie and leitrim-roscommon.com. For Northern Ireland place names: placenamesni.org.
Portable Genealogist: Problem Solving in Irish Research by Marie Daly NEHGS, 1st Floor Rotunda, CS9.P677 no.2
Family Search Wiki – Ireland Genealogy
IrishGenealogy – Operated by Ireland’s Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. This website’s collections include the historic civil registers of births (1864 to 1919), marriages (1845 to 1944), and deaths (1878 to 1969) held at the General Records Office (GRO).
IrishGenealogy – Operated by Ireland’s Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Review a complete list of church records included on this web site here.
RootsIreland – Sponsored by the Irish Family History Foundation. This is a subscription searchable database of church and civil registrations. It is free to search, but there are fees to obtain a record. To view a list of parishes included on the web site, use the lookup tool by county.
Irish Ancestors – The website of John Grenham, author of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. Search for records by surname, place-name, or county. Includes maps of civil and Catholic parishes. There are five free page-views per day and then a subscription is required.
National Library of Ireland (NLI) – Catholic Parish Registers browsable by parish, vital record event (baptism, marriage, death), and can be filtered by month and year within volumes.
Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915 (Ancestry.com) – The index to the National Library of Ireland Catholic parish registers. Images must be viewed at the NLI site.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 – searchable database of Roman Catholic sacramental records for the Archdiocese of Boston.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 (Image Only) – browsable database available to all guest members. Browse scanned records for Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Boston.
National Archives of Ireland’s dedicated Genealogy site takes pride of place among the top free Irish genealogy database. Its most popular resources are the fully digitised 1901 and 1911 census returns.
This is a partial list retrieved from.
https://www.americanancestors.org/education/learning-resources/read/irish-guide