6 Surprising Advantages of Genealogy Research

Genealogy research opens a doorway to the past and allows you to uncover many facts about your family history. Many individuals only know the things their immediate family told them, and some don’t even know that. Whatever stories you know right now are just a tip of an iceberg. With ancestry research, you can discover many facts that give a new meaning to your life. Here are some of its surprising advantages.

Understand Your Current Family Dynamics

With genealogy, you get a chance to understand your current family dynamics in a new way. It allows you to look at your life from a different perspective and reshape it accordingly.

Most people have doubts and fears about their future and look for explanations regarding current life events. Genealogy research allows you to eliminate those doubts, laugh at things that you used to take seriously, and give a new meaning to your relations. It’s an eye-opening and emotional experience; you get to become close to your family.

Honour Your Family History

Everyone grows up hearing fascinating stories about their family history; with genealogy and ancestral research, you get a chance to validate those stories. Most people visit their ancestral Townlands to physically experience and explore more facts about them.

During the whole process, you can document everything to humanise your family lineage for the upcoming generations. It’s a great way to honour your family’s legacy and leave valuable things behind.

Uncover a Vast Medical History

Medical history is one of the primary reasons why people start researching their ancestors in the first place. During this research, you learn a lot about your medical history that offers health benefits for you and your descendants.

You can uncover any inheritable diseases through your ancestor’s medical information or from distant relatives. This valuable information will prepare you for your future and help you take any preventative measures. Besides disease, you can also learn about many hidden skills or talents.

Discover Someone Famous

We all secretly wish to be famous or at least have a connection to some famous personality. You might have a great-great-grandfather who was a renowned author or have an actor among your ancestors.

Gain Easy Access to Memberships or Scholarships

With the popularity of ancestry, many universities have started offering scholarships to people of different ethnicities. You can offer the documents from genealogy research as proof to access scholarships and other benefits. Moreover, these documents can also help you get a membership to exclusive organisations and some visas.

Create a Deeper Connection

Learning about your family history helps you feel like a part of something bigger and deeper. It gives a sense of belonging, and you feel more grounded after understanding the hardships and accomplishments of your ancestors.
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Discover Your Ancestral Roots With Us

My Ireland Family Heritage is a leading genealogy tourism company in Ireland. We offer ancestry research, cultural tours, family history tours, ancestral Townland identification, self-drive options, and much more. Call us to get started.

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Review of My Ireland Heritage Tours Presented on Trip adviser Oct 2024 By • Family TomBarron2013 New York City, NY2

Once in a lifetime experience

Oct 2024 • Family

We highly recommend My Ireland Heritage for anyone who wants to learn and be guided to their Irish “roots” and much, much more. Sean Quinn and Ian Darragh of My Ireland Family Heritage have deep knowledge or the areas we wanted to visit in Meath, Sligo and Kilkenny. While we knew about one side of the family history back to 1690, there was nothing known about the other that arrived in the US in the 1870s.

Ian, Sean, and Nicola did thorough research on our localities and locations from which our ancestors left for America in 1849 and later. In addition, Ian and Sean did separate day-long “recons” in advance of our time with them, seeking out local people and the specific properties with maps and whatever records still available. Their results were absolutely outstanding! In both our cases, they found and took us to our still-existing cottages and shops from the early 1820s.

It was so enjoyable to be with Ian for three days and for a special day with Sean. Whether it was the Newgrange World Heritage sites 5,500 years old , the Battle of the Boyne 1690 , or the local cemeteries and churches of our ancestors. Ian was especially attentive to my wife throughout the travels after she twisted her ankle in a rain-soaked old cemetery.

Throughout the process of trip preparation over months to giving us the final, wonderful books of Meath and Sligo, Aisling was highly professional and responsive with all the many details. The bound books she prepared are treasures! Thanks to all for truly exceptional experiences.

Newgrange World Unesco Site 5500 years old
Battle of the Boyne 1690 AD
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Review of My Ireland Heritage Tours Presented on Trip adviser by Shelley L @ sjlively

Exceptional in every way!

Over the last few months of preparing for our trip, every single detail was meticulously attended, not only professionally, but helpfully, and in such a friendly manner, that I felt as if I knew Sean, Aisling and Ian before I even stepped off the plane.

The amount of work these wonderful people put into our personal history is mindboggling. My mother was an avid amateur genealogist, and had worked for decades to bring to light the trail our family took, but our resources are limited.

Sean knows exactly where to look, and was able to fill in so many gaps that had eluded us for generations. Some of the information he found, unbeknownst even to him, actually solidified the findings we had amassed over the years. Ours was a family in coal mining – I only found on our tour that they had originated from a mining area, and their arrival on the  border coincided exactly with the decline in the mining industry in County Wicklow.

I would have been overjoyed simply with the knowledge of why they left when they did, about 12 years before the famine. Breaking through our brick wall of great grandparents even farther back on the family tree was a dream come true, but to be able to set foot on not only the area they lived, and find that the house is still there was overwhelming. Seeing the family church and cemetery where our ancestors and extended family still rest is a truly moving experience.

The care taken by this company in each and every aspect of the journey cannot be overstated. Only about 2 weeks prior to my trip, Sean contacted me to let me know that he had also stumbled across some of my husband’s family name in the process and included them as well in his research. How often can anyone say that they not only got what they paid for, but more than they ever imagined? I can say that. They were even kind enough to answer a few follow-up questions after my return home, as I was so stunned on my tour with Ian that I didn’t think ask at the time.If you have the opportunity to make the trip to Ireland, contact My Ireland Family Heritage before you go.

If your family was there, Sean will go above and beyond to find them. Even without family, contact them anyway. Ian is a walking encyclopedia of history, and so fun to talk to. Aisling will make sure every “I” is dotted, and every “T” is crossed.  Thank you so much for the trip of a lifetime, and the opportunity to pass on everything we have discovered to future generations

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