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Things to Look for in Your Irish Ancestry Tour Provider

If you’ve recently discovered that you’re of Irish descent, it’s completely natural to look for ways to connect with your ancestral roots and culture. Both these things form a major part of your identity, allow you to understand more about your family, and develop a deep and meaningful connection with your heritage.

The best way to do it is to plan an Irish ancestry tour of all the major neighbourhoods and townlands where your ancestors lived. These tours are based on thorough genealogy and ancestry research, which is done using official documents, interviews, and other methods.

Once the genealogy research is complete, only then the tour itinerary can be made. If you want to learn more about your roots and ancestral culture, you should start by hiring a professional and reliable genealogy and touring company. Here are some things that you should look for when choosing a company.

Conducts Primary Ancestry Research

You can make the most of your heritage tour by choosing a touring company that organises the trip and conducts primary ancestral research for you. Look for a company that gives both these services so that your tour can have all the relevant places that bring you closer to your ancestors.

Access to an Extensive and Thorough Database

The touring company can only conduct proper genealogy research for you if they also have access to a thorough database. Ideally, this database should have all the birth, marriage, and death records and other important documents that give specific information about your ancestors.

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Keeps You Involved Throughout the Process

The touring company should keep you in the loop during the research process and the itinerary development. Genealogy research can take a while before you get fruitful information, so you can easily lose hope if you don’t know about the progress. This is why you should always find a company that keeps you involved throughout the process.

Provides Qualified Guides for Every Place

Once your research is done and the itinerary is made, your touring company should arrange for qualified tour guides who can tell you about the places you visit. These guides should also provide all the information you need about your family homestead and help you develop a deeper connection with your townland.

Hire My Ireland Family Heritage for Irish Ancestry Tours

At My Ireland Family Heritage, you can get professional Irish genealogy research and properly planned ancestry tours under one roof. We have a panel of highly qualified and experienced genealogy researchers who will trace your ancestors while ensuring that you learn more about your ancestral Irish roots.

Rest assured, our one-day family heritage tours and Irish ancestry and genealogy tours are perfect for anyone looking to connect with their Irish roots.

Get in touch with us to learn more about our services, and begin your journey today!

 

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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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