The Genearchaeologist's Field Notebook

The earliest I've so far managed to trace this particular family is to Charles Reilly of Robertstown, who lived at Robertstown Castle a...

Lately I've been working on transcribing some of the Irish local accounts collected in the National Folklore Collection, UCD as part of...

As I've written about before, Irish research can be difficult because gaps exist in the records due to the destruction (both intentional...

The earliest known ancestor in my Fagan line is Peter Fagan, whose family were living in Hazleton, Pennsylvania by 1850.  He, his wife, Eliz...

Recently a fantastic new source was made available for Irish research - the deed memorials books from the Irish Registry of Deeds.  The majo...

The baptism of James Augustine Joyce, St. Joseph's Church, Terenure (NLI Registers) This past Friday was a literary holiday of so...

Cumann na mBan members, 1916 (Richmond Barracks) As Treston is one of my Irish ancestral names, and not a particularly common one at tha...