What an experience! I have always been fascinated by my family history. I’ve tried to research my Irish roots for years, but I’ve always run into roadblocks. I came across... read more ‘My Ireland Family Heritage’ online a year before I planned to travel to Ireland with my husband. Aisling and Sean patiently helped me decide on the best package for us. We selected the ‘Genealogy Touring Gold Package’ (one day tour package). We enjoyed every minute of our day with Ian sifting through the townlands of my ancestors. We stood inside the remains of my 3x great grandparents’ home! We drove along a road that had several buildings once occupied by my family! We stood inside the church where my 2x great grandparents were married! We visited the cemeteries where my ancestors were buried. We walked in the footsteps of generations of my family members, and we are so grateful to ‘My Ireland Family Heritage’ for the trip of a lifetime!

An amazing experience with family - Working with Aisling who is overseas and located in a time zone ahead of mine was surprisingly smooth. Communication was professional, efficient and responsive, making it easy to coordinate tours... read more and discuss details. Thank you Aisling!

Chatting and emailing is a delightful experience. He not only answered my questions thoroughly but also displayed an impressive depth of knowledge which lends authenticity to this adventure. His patience in addressing my numerous inquiries has been commendable, making the research process enjoyable and informative. Not too mention some excellent and relevant reading materials recommendations to prepare for the trip. Thank you Seán!

Touring through ancient Ireland with Ian was a captivating journey back in time, filled with the rich history of Ireland. However, the highlight of the experience was the family history tour, where we explored churches, graveyards, and ancestral townlands. We even visited homesteads and happened upon a distant relative! Ian's personable nature and deep knowledge of Irish history added another layer of authenticity to the adventure. His quick thinking and resourcefulness while helping us locate our ancestors' graves made the tour not just informative but also emotionally profound. Thank you Ian!

With the family tour you get a wonderful book that can be handed down to future generations. I am going to my dad record his thoughts about our adventure so we can pass this along as well.

The pickups and dropoffs for the touring are great and made our trip in Ireland so much more relaxing.

Fabulous experience! - My husband and I had the opportunity to visit Ireland for only one day this past August off a cruise. I reached out to My Ireland Heritage Tours to see... read more if they could use any of the information I had previously developed to locate my family’s ancestral home. Bingo! Despite indicating they are able to pinpoint to within 10 yards, for my family they found the exact cottage still standing in a field. To say I was flabbergasted is an understatement. Seán showed me the records that he used to determine that location and there is no doubt. To stand where my great-grandmother lived was surreal. Even better was the ability to bring all this information and pictures back to my 88 year old mother so she could see her grandmother’s house. As if that wasn’t enough, Seán took us around a variety of churches and graveyards associated with my family AND as a bonus plan, he included some Irish history sites that I had indicated I was interested in. All in one day. He made sure we made it back to our ship on time. He even made sure my husband’s phone got quickly mailed to the US when we accidentally left it in his car. Additionally, Aisling was so easy and professional to work with on the front end of the trip planning. I can’t recommend this family business enough!!!!!

Family Research With Snapshot Product - A few years ago, I took a full day genealogy tour with Sean and Ian which was a fantastic experience.  On short notice, I had an opportunity to come back... read more to Ireland for a week this past August.  Due to my late developing schedule, I was unable to schedule a full day tour with My Ireland Heritage.  Instead I hired them to conduct basic genealogy research via their Snapshot product.  After conveying the family information I knew to Sean and team, my plan was to take whatever additional research they could find and to then drive to any identified locations.  Going with Snapshot was a very productive decision.  The research they provided identified exactly where in a specific townland within the village of Boherbue, Cork my Godsil / Sheehan ancestors lived in the early to mid-1800s.  The Snapshot research gave me general area background and family surname frequency in various record sources.  It also contained a combination of civil and parish records research information, including Griffith’s Valuation and Tithe Applotment Books information, which identified specific locations as well as other persons having the same surname living nearby.  That broad surname information will allow me to do additional research at a later date to try and establish even further extended family connections.  The Snapshot summary information also contained Eircodes, which are house or building specific GPS codes, associated with places my ancestors lived. I ultimately used those codes to drive to the identified locations.  Having those Eircodes makes locating sites much easier as navigation on Ireland’s older, local roads (think narrow with stone walls on either side) and the changing of physical locations over centuries can make site visits challenging.  After I received the research, Sean was extremely gracious in engaging me on a follow-up call regarding questions I had on the Snapshot information and he even reached out to a current local village resident on my behalf.  With the research and Eircodes, our self-drive to the village was very straightforward and gratifying.  In my case, I was looking for foundational genealogical research, specific ancestral location information, and post-research access to a knowledgeable team to help me on my search.  Snapshot certainly hit the mark for me.  I highly recommend My Ireland Heritage for any project.

Visit to Irish Family History Sites - My wife and I totally enjoyed our trip. It could not have gone better. While I had already done much of the research, there was little pieces of information they... read more found that will help me fill in some details of my wife's family heritage.

The most important part was the visits to the many sites. While in the U.S. I looked places up on the map, but was not always sure I had the right place. Going with this company to many of those places gave me a much better understanding of where my wife's ancestors also lived.

It also helped me better understand some of the issues they faced and even some of their personal character. The most interesting was Simon Hadley (1640-1711). As I visited the places he lived and the events surrounding his life, I gained a greater appreciation for him. I think he was a person who stood by his sons and his wife. It appears that his wife was the devout Quaker, but he became a Quaker to support her. When his sons had conflicts with the Quaker Church (Society of Friends), he supported his sons. Really interesting person. My wife and I both think we would have liked him!

Incredibly Amazing full of Culture & History - This is the second time my family and I have traveled to Ireland and we just can't go without including Sean, Ian and Aisling in our travels. They are incredibly... read more professional, but also endearingly friendly and kind. Their historic knowledge and resulting discussions about how current culture has developed from that history is invaluable. They are more than "guides". They are also educators about Ireland's history, culture, geography etc. Most importantly to me and my family - they feel like extended members of our family now. We will be back - not just because they have instilled their love of Ireland in us, but because each time we travel and meet with them, they offer us more enticing info about the other areas of the country that we now HAVE to visit.

Visiting ancestral homelands in Ireland - We had the best experience working with My Ireland Family Heritage to learn about the Ireland story of our Irish ancestors. Their experienced and expert research, well documented in... read more the family history book they prepared for us, coupled with their personalized tour for us of our Irish family homelands, made our journey to Ireland immensely more meaningful and touching than we could have ever accomplished on our own. If you have Irish family history and are traveling to Ireland, we highly recommend My Ireland Family Heritage to make your trip especially memorable and deeply personal, just as our trip turned out to be.

Lance & Kathy Ehmcke
Sioux City, Iowa, USA

Finding My Roots in County Cavan - We had an absolutely terrific tour with Sean in County Cavan. We would never have found the exact spot where our ancestors were from without his research and relationships... read more in the area. He even found a neighbor who had married into our Irish family and who spent time with us and pointed out the exact parcel of land where members of our direct line had lived starting in the early 1800's.

Sean was a pleasure to work with - always responded right away to our email inquiries, spent a fair amount of time with us on the phone early on in the process, and was thorough (and pleasant) throughout! He has a vast knowledge of Irish history.

I highly recommend this group if you are seeking your roots in Ireland!

A must service for tours of your ancestors! You might meet a relative - This was the most amazing tour I have ever done. I had tried researching my family using Ancestry but it can only take you so far. When reading the Rick... read more Steve's Ireland guide, I saw this was recommended. And boy, was I glad I contacted them.

Sean and his team have the knowledge and skills to go much further than your own research. I first arranged for the trip in 2020 after speaking with Sean, but unfortunately the pandemic delayed it for 3 years! Fortunately, this is a family run business and Sean's daughter Aishling patiently rescheduled several times and kept in contact with me the whole time.

On the day of the trip, Aishling's husband Ian picked my wife, 8 year old son and my brother and myself at our hotel in Dublin and Ian drove us in a comfortable van to where my grandmother was born in county Mayo. I can't say enough about Ian. He is a really engaging and knowledgeable guide with a great sense of fun and humor. When we got to the town and church were my grandmother grew up, Ian made a call and up drives one of my distant cousins! When Ian was researching the town visit in the prior weeks, he met him at the church cemetery by happenstance! But that's why their service is so valuable. After touring the site of my grandmother's house and farm, we saw the old cemetery that goes hundreds of years and the schoolhouse where my grandmother studied. Truly amazing. We then had lunch with my cousin who told stories about our family history. The next week we had dinner with my cousin and his wife in Westport so now we have a permanent connection to Ireland!

My recommendation for anyone serious about researching your Irish ancestry is to use this service. You could find some surprises!

PS: I had to go back to the US, but my brother and his daughter took the County Meath tour with Sean and raved about it. My brother and I can't wait to come back and take the Dublin City tour with Ian, who is a proud native of Dublin!

Wonderful experience with every step - Three of my dad's grandparents were Irish emigrants. I gave Sean what information I had gathered and he was able to locate the land where one of the families lived... read more in County Cork. Aisling provided suggestions and associated costs for additional tours in conjunction with the Ancestral Townland tour, including a semi-personalized tour that wasn't one of their standard offerings. She coordinated the dates and payment arrangements plus provided recommendations for accomodations that all turned out to be very nice. She also had great advice on public transportation and activities in Dublin, where I spent a few days on my own before starting my tour. Ian, my guide, was very knowledgeable, great fun, full of interesting stories, and I was so grateful to have him drive since the Irish drive on the wrong side of the road 😉. This is a great family-operated company, I've already recommended it to my daughter's friend.
I'm unable to upload the picture of the house where my great-grandmother's family once lived, but seeing that was magical and the highlight of my visit.