An Irish family taking an ancestral tour

Benefits of a Family Ancestral Tour

The History of Medieval Kilkenny City

Ireland is increasingly becoming a popular tourist destination, with around 11.2 million people visiting the country in 2019, right before the pandemic hit the world!

Ancestral tourism also happens to be a considerable part of this figure since more and more people are interested in connecting to their roots.

To this purpose, genealogy companies like ours offer a wide variety of opportunities to explore and reunite with your background and solidify your family identity.

At My Ireland Heritage, we bring you the best Irish genealogy tours for you to rekindle the connection to your rich Irish family heritage. We offer customized One-day Family Heritage Tours and Personalized Genealogy Research wherein we seek your details over email, phone, or skype, and then visit the lands of your ancestors ourselves to tailor-make a tour just for you!

View our affordable packages and select one that best suits you.

Taking an ancestral tour will be quite an experience. Here’s why:

 

Sense of Identity

A huge part of our identity is our background.

This is why historians have spent decades learning about the different cultures and customs, and ethnic connections.

Knowing your identity will also help you fortify your faith in yourself by drawing from the strength and resilience of your relatives when struck by difficult situations.

In a day and age when the daily demands of life seem overpowering and spending time with family is becoming a luxury, taking an ancestral tour together can strengthen family bonds and provide a sense of belonging that boosts overall contentment.

 

Connection with Emotions

Connecting with your Irish ancestors can help you empathize.

Standing in the same spot where your ancestor may have lived, breathed, and loved can genuinely be a heartwarming experience that increases connection and helps gain perspective over what matters.

In every ancestor you’ve had, you’ll see parts of yourself that will help you connect with your insides and realize that humans are all alike at the core. Times may change, but the foundation of our emotions and problems remain similar.

 

Make Better Choices

Taking a family history tour will help recognize patterns and consequences.

Knowing that certain illnesses run in the family will help you make better health choices.

History is a lesson learned. Learning more about your ancestors and mistakes they may have made can help understand how the consequences play out in the future. Hence, you may be likely to learn via other’s experiences.

The History of Medieval Kilkenny City

About Us

Ours is an Irish family business owned by Sean Quinn and his daughter Aisling Darragh. With a passion for genealogy for over two decades, we’ve been helping people trace their Irish roots.

We’re a government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company and only hire certified genealogists to conduct our tours and research, and this is why we have a 95% success rate in finding your family heritage.

To experience your Irish ancestral townland, you may plan your family history tour now.

Contact us online or call us at +353 1 689-0008.

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Customised Genealogy & Historical Tour

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
Customised Historical Tours Trim Castle
Entrance stone at Newgrange

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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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