Can anyone tell me if there is a site where the Irish like to publish their ancestral trees?

Question

I have been doing lots of spasmodic research on my various Irish lines, trying to uncover clues in things like the Griffiths valuation, Tithe records and into the more recent 1901 censuses etc.  I have been plotting profiles for persons of interest in townlands I am interested in, in the hope that I might be able to connect with others.

It seems to me (and I may be wrong) that there aren't many trees (in the usual places, wikitree, ancestry etc) that are started by people who currently live in Ireland.  Are they publishing their ancestry somewhere else?  

I suspect if more of the current day people in Ireland attempted to trace back their ancestry and publish it on the sites we usually access, then we might have a greater chance of finding our connections.  They have greater access to local records than we do.  I know my Thomas Cassidy left two daughters in Ireland.  Did they have descendants?  Why aren't they looking for me the same way I am looking for them?!?

If there is a site the Irish predominantly use, can someone tell me what it is?  If there isn't, how can we get Ireland 'on board' for wikitree and get current day Ireland connected with those of us who have 'Irish Roots'!

If we can't connect to current day lines, then I think that DNA is the only other way to give us clues about our Irish connections in the absence of a lot of traditional records.  I would encourage others to take tests like the FTDNA Family Finder (currently on sale).  The test has helped me recently identify the name of my g/g/g grandmother, by being able to identify the townland name and then access original church records through a match - when the name was MURPHY from Wexford the most common name in Ireland!

Answer 1

Naturally I’d have to suggest Wikitree is where the Irish like to publish their ancestral trees :-).

But as a second resort you could try the world tree on Familysearch.

Answer 2

Hello Veronica,

I'm not aware of any predominantly Irish family tree web sites. However I do know that a few of the Irish Universities have some good genealogiacl archives that can be publicly searched & they can be found by Googling them.

All the best

Billy

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Thanks Billy

Answer 3

The sites that come to mind are Genes Reunited, Find My Past and, of course Ancestry. Genes Reunited has been around for quite a while, while Find My Past is fairly new to the online tree business. Also My Heritage has a very large international base of users.

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Ah, My Heritage.  A site I have rarely looked at, thanks for the tip.

Answer 4

There is one site that doesn't specifically have trees, but it is a site set up by the a group in Ireland that is trying to help people trace their roots back to Ireland.  They also try to help you track down possible living relatives in Ireland in the hopes of promoting tourism in Ireland.  They figure the more people who can locate Irish roots, the more people more willing to visit.

They help to run down leads for FREE (best price ever!). 

http://www.irelandxo.com

Since I finally just figured out what area my great grandfather was from, I can get down to a more localized level.  Whereas, my questions to them had to be more general previously.  They do whatever they can to help track down leads though.

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I tried to register there and it told me that there was a problem with my submission and "to wait 2,592,000 seconds" before trying again. Since my math skills aren't quite that sharp I had to Google it . . . that's 30 days. Seriously Weird.

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Fantastic, thanks Norma!

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I managed to register OK!

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Thank-you for sharing this link!

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Just popping up 7 years later to say thank you for the tip.  I'm going to register and put my 2XGGs Andrew GARVEY & Elizabeth O'DONNELL on the site's message board.

Answer 5

I went to Ireland last year for the very first and hopefully not the last time.  I discovered that there is a lot of great information in the people and not necessarily written down.

Some of the best info I have recieved has been though contacting the local people through various sites and corrisponding with them.  

I reached out to one such gentleman and had a great experience in finding my wife's grandfather's home and childhood school.

You can read about it here.

http://michaelstills.com/?p=299

All the sites mentioned are great but you have to dig and reach out to individuals who have made genealogical contributions.

I just googled Irish DNA Project and found these which you could investigate.

http://www.irelandsdna.com/about

http://www.irishorigenes.com/

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Thanks for the suggestions, much appreciated.  Will check them out!

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I have been in touch with irelandsdna and they are a dna testing site.  They don't share info necessarily except with members and their tests seem quite pricey when compared to others.

The second site you mentioned I hadn't realised initially was one I am familiar with.  My paternal ynda continues to be a mystery, my ancestor  http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cote-429. Marmaduke appears to have the same ydna as others name BENNETT and LOCKE.  As part of our research we funded a study from Tyrone, but from the Englishorigenes site.  A link to the report is published on both Marmaduke's and Henry Bennett's profiles on wikitree and on the Ipswich Bennett website.  If you are interested in what a report might look like you can acess our via this link

http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/6876557/bennett-a-case-study-dr-tyrone-bowes-updated-for-website-signed-for-eo-pdf-1-0-meg?da=y.

Please check out both Marmadukes and Henrys profiles and we would welcome any feedback.  The study then led to the commissioning of an FTDNA project for the Bristol Channel.

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My second cousin is from Bristl. We collaborate on facebook and facebook messenger, and then I put the info on wikitree.

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>> I discovered that there is a lot of great information in the people and not necessarily written down. <<

Indeed, more is the pity. One old man in our village who knew everything about everyone, who had lived in the abandoned houses etc recently died. That fount of information is now gone. I regret that I did not take more time to get more down.

Answer 6

Although I don't know of any sites that are specific to Irish geneaology I do research for a website called SFT genealogy https://sft-genealogy.com/index.php? and although it is mostly about Scottish ancestry we also help with Irish geneaolgy.  WE do look ups locally and the site is free to join plus plenty of free help too!

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What about 'MyHeritage'? I've found that there's quite a lot out there because of the English/US focus of some of the other sites.

Answer 7

In the last year I had my Y-DNA tested at FTDNA and the results in finding cousins was very good, in fact I linked to a O'Kelly who was a direct descendent of William Ua Cellaig or William Boy O'Kelly 

William Ua Cellaig (modern Irish: Uilliam Buidhe Ó Cellaigh), also known as William Boy O'Kelly, King of Uí Maine and Chief of the Name, died c.1381.

This of course meant I too am a direct descendent of William. There is much to do in finding links to relatives from the 1700's in Ireland has proved more difficult. I did find 11 relatives who like me are descendent's of William. I also was able to find the actual town "Ballintober, County Roscommon", Ireland where my Irish Kelly's came from. 

FTDNA however does not have many or enough Irish family trees to assist. Getting my Y-DNA was a huge breakthrough though.