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Ways to Connect With Your Heritage

Most people invest their time and energy into finding out about their ancestral heritage because we need connection. As human beings, we seek connection with everything! Whether it is our family, friends, pets, or ancestors, we need to feel like we belong.

Reading our family histories and doing ancestry research to discover how our ancestors spent their lives unravels many aspects of us that even we don’t know about! Our personalities transform, and we find meaning in our lives by researching our genealogy. Here are some tips on forming a connection with your heritage!

Get To Know About Your DNA

One of the best ways to connect to your heritage is to find out about your ancestry. A DNA test will reveal alot about not just your grandparents, but your great-great-grandparents and where your roots originated from. You can get your DNA analyzed from any science lab or buy a kit to do it at home.

Discover Your Family Tree Online

There are numerous ways to find out about the lives of your ancestors. With Google, it is very easy to look up your family name and build a family tree! You can even do in-depth research through records to find out all of your family secrets.

Connect With Your Native Culture

Learning about your native culture and then incorporating it into your daily life is a great way to connect with your heritage. Visit your native land, or if that isn’t possible, you can always learn more about your culture through literature and movies. Try to learn the language and make the family recipes passed down through generations. At the end of this journey, you won’t just be well-cultured but also bilingual!

Talk With The Seniors In The Family

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A senior member of the family will know more about your heritage than anyone else. You can sit down with any senior member and ask them about your predecessors and learn about their rituals, hobbies, and appearances.

Connect With Your Irish Ancestry Today With My Ireland Family Heritage!

Are you interested in connecting with your ancestry and learning more about your Irish roots? At My Ireland Family Heritage, we offer extensive research on Irish genealogy and can help you find out more about your heritage today! Our services include Ireland heritage trips, historical tours, one-day family heritage tours, and much more! Contact us today 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.

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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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