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Discover Your Talents from Your Genealogy

Genealogy has gained a lot of hype as a hobby as more and more people are showing interest in learning about their family history. It can also help you learn more about yourself, the medical history of your family, or some talents/skills they may have possessed once.

Many people do genealogy as a hobby to learn about their family history. People can even visit the places where their ancestors once lived with heritage or historical tours offered by many genealogy and tourism businesses like My Ireland Family Heritage. Discover your hidden talents with the help of genealogy.

Explore Your Identity

Everyone desires a sense of belonging, and discovering about one’s ancestors is a fantastic way to set one’s lifestyle in a larger historical and geographical perspective. By understanding their family history—who were they? Where they lived? How did they live the obstacles they faced, the successes they attained, and their ambitions—tracing family roots down through generations may help individuals connect more profoundly with their sense of self.

Improve Your Social Skills

Since genealogy research has become a trending hobby, it provides opportunities to connect with other individuals interested in knowing about their ancestors. There are several online organizations and forums like GenForum, OnGenealogy, etc., where you may engage in discourse and build a sense of community. Some researchers transform their ancestral histories into other initiatives, such as giving a local library or senior centre presentation, teaching a history lesson to local schoolchildren, or creating a keepsake book for family members.

Learn Medical History of Your Family

In some situations, you may be able to obtain family health and medical data from distant relatives or by obtaining health data from old records. This data can aid in the identification of possible risk factors or some diseases that can cause a threat to the current family. It helps to understand your health better with the help of genetics.

It Helps You Find a Purpose

Many people, particularly older people, don’t know what to do with their lives after retirement. It’s very common for recently retired people to experience sadness when they move from long-term job habits to a life of leisure and free time. Ancestry research may be a fascinating topic that piques one’s interest. Any family’s tale is likely full of minor surprises and revelations that may engross a person for hours. It can result in you unravelling some interesting family secrets that no one knows or remember.

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Learn More About Your Family History with My Ireland Family Heritage

Genealogy research can be extremely beneficial if you want to know about your family history or ancestors. It can help you discover some family secrets or important information like where your ancestors lived, how they earned their living, and their daily life.

By tracing ancestry research, you can even find your distant relatives. My Ireland Family Heritage is a genealogy research and heritage tourism business that employs the best staff to provide top-quality genealogy and tour services. We offer services for ancestry research, Irish ancestry tours, one-day family heritage tours, etc.

Contact us to learn more about our services.

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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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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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