Thread: irish geneolgist recommendation

Hello

Anyone used a decent geneolgist[paid one]

Have two brick walls with irish immigrants [birthplaces] to australia's birthplaces.Even a county would help.

Come to the conclusion i need a geneologist.

regards

mick willis

tasmania

Hi



The problem is that there isn't too much to that has survived over there in some areas.



My father has emplyed several genealogists over there but it hasn't pushed us back at all.



In fact I have found out more from taking other routes! I have looked at the family when they emigrated - searching for other family members - and tracing them back through the census to try to find a mention of which area they came from - this has been a successful approach in two branches - in one case it even gave the place they came from, but I had to go through 5 census years (ie 50 years) to get it.



When did yours arrive where ever? Do you have any idea when they emigrated? What is their surname? Have you found the ship they came on? Did they come alone?



All of the above can help.

Thanks somerset3

Have done all you have mentioned.Have exhausted all possibilitys this end.Not one cert,no census's,no passenger list mention birthplace except ireland.That other family members idea might be worth a look though.

ta mick

Good luck - it took me 25 years to make the breakthrough that let me track down my Irish branch, but have now got them back to the early 1700s.



The other thing you could do is monitor the 1911 Irish census entries now coming on line - and free! - to see where the bulk of the ones with 'your' surname come from.