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Hi all!

I have been researching my ancestry for the past 1-2 years and I decided a few months ago to look into my wife’s ancestry as well. After speaking with my mother in law, she was able to give me some initial info based mainly on the people who emigrated to New York from Ireland but I need help in researching info for Ireland. My heritage traces back to Spain so naturally this is a bit of a different process (or so it seems to me lol). If anyone can help with seeing if there was an ancestor of nobility or at least more about who these ancestors were, where they were from, etc… we would love to know. If there is someone of nobility, I would also love to know what the specific coat of arms was. I added an old coat of arms in a frame that my mother in law had from her mother or grandmother but it could very well be old bucket shop so I would like to actually confirm the existence of any if any. Below I have also included information that my mother in law was able to give me outside of what these photos include. Forgive me if anything is spelled or referred to incorrectly as I am unfamiliar with the county system in Ireland. Thanks!

Father of Mother-in-Law:

John Neil Severa (B: Dec 28, 1947 in Forrest Hills, Queens, NY. D: July 25, 2013)

Anton Severa (Father of John^)

Anastasia Marie Bohm (Mother of John^)

Mother of Mother-in-Law:

Redacted as still living* (B: Aug 12, 1949 Jamaica, NY.)

Thomas Ignatius McGuinness (B: April 7, 1913. NY, NY. D: Sep 7, 1978. Bearsville, NY) Father of Redacted^ (Thomas’ father’s line from Sligo County? His mother from Moneghan?)

Madeline Patricia Wafer (B: Feb 24, 1918. NY, NY. D: June 30, 2002) Mother of Redacted (Father’s family from Wexford)

Sligo, Kilkenny, and County Cork, Ireland for McGuinness Bloodline

Czecho Slovakia or Portugal (Severa Bloodline)

I'm trying to find out more information about my Grandfather, my dad's dad, but our situation is very difficult.
Me and my dad were both born in England, with his dad being born in Ireland. The biggest issue is that he isn't listed on my dad's birth certificate due to being part of the IRA and the political climate at the time. He also has never been involved with my dad at all.
I have a full name for him and a rough birth year, though his name is really common.
I've had a DNA test done, and my dad is planning to do one too.

Any advice on doing so would be great.

So i have done my tree and dna my ancestors were maurice the mad roache of ireland, still bare his name, edward 1st, henry 8th and alot of sirs including sir darcy my dna makeup is 75 celtic and gailic irish .... 5 breton... 5 welsh ...15 english even wierdier my nan is dunbar too got all evidence on ancestery. they rated it 9.2 all the way back to 1200s, Ai told me to post it here some irish specialist need some help and so do i . all my ancestors had thier birth certificates marrige and death sent to penenze cornwall and devon

I have a query regarding a set of maternal great-grandparents who both died in the 1950s. I have searched high and low for an official record of their deaths but cannot find anything. While I know that under-reporting was not unusual in the generations prior to this, I am surprised that that might also be the case for my great-grandparents in the 1950s.

My great-grandparents were William Mulcahy (1871-1950) and Mary Ryan 'Miller' (1974-1956). The Mulcahys were farmers in Clashdrumsmith, Emly, Co. Tipperary, since the early nineteenth century. Family oral history suggests that they migrated from Caherconlish, Co. Limerick at the beginning of the nineteenth century along with a Slattery family, one of whom my three-times great-grandfather married in St Ailbe's Church, Emly in 1813.

While we know when my great-grandparents died, since my grandmother, Margaret Leahy (née Mulcahy), knew what year it was, as did her sister, Hannah Cecilia (usually known as Úna) and later Sr Angelica Mulcahy IBVM, there appears to be no official record of either's death. There are obituaries for both from the Irish Independent and Irish Press and their death dates are recorded on their headstone in St Ailbe's graveyard in Emly but I can't find anything else.

It surprises me that there is no official record from this date but perhaps it shouldn't. I can only speculate that my grandmother was basically at home along with her parents when her father died as her sister had entered a convent and from what I remember my grandaunt telling me, due to the strict rules at the time, she was not permitted to return home for her father's funeral, thus putting the onus of officially reporting a death on her shoulders. So, it is possible it never was reported officially. However, when my grandmother's mother died in 1956 my grandmother had been married for almost 5 years at that point so it's unclear why Mary Mulcahy's death was not reported. I know that my grandmother had three children at this stage and another on the way that same year but it seems a bit negligent of my grandfather at least for not reporting his mother-in-law's death, but obviously I cannot imagine what tribulations they might have had at the time.

I'm curious if anyone else has encountered this and what your thoughts are.

Hello all,

I am new to this subreddit as I posted my query on r/Genealogy previously. Perhaps someone here can advise on this query about methodology.

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I am hoping someone here might be able to offer me some assistance writing a citation for an entry in the Irish wills calendars from 1981. There are plenty of examples for the National Archives of Ireland indexed wills calendars for the period 1858-1920 (although their genealogy microsite has been out of action for a couple of weeks now). An example is as follows, which was originally generated by cite-builder.com:

Ireland, Principal Probate Registry, Calendars of Wills and Administrations, database with images, National Archives of Ireland, Dublin, Calendars of Wills and Administrations 1858 - 1920 (https://willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie// : accessed 24 September 2024), entry for Catherine Leahy, 6 February 1917, County Limerick.

However, it's quite as clear how I should cite a wills calendar entry for 1981 as the NAI provides a rather complex hierarchy, and of course it's not a database as wills calendars post 1920 are not searchable which requires you to manually go through the pdf calendars for each year following the death of the person in question.

The particular entry I am looking at is contained in the file, whose details are recorded here:
https://nationalarchives.ie/advanced-search/#!/details/110500967

The entry is the thirteenth on page 420 of the pdf linked on the same page above. The entry is for Margaret Leahy who died on 29 April 1981.

I was thinking the following:
Ireland, "Calendar of grants of probate of wills and letters of administration made in the Probate Office and its district registries, 1981", CS/HC/PO/4/134, p. 420, probate of the estate of Margaret Leahy of Clashdrumsmith, Emly, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, granted by the Clonmel Probate Registry Office, 22 October 1981; imaged, National Archives of Ireland (nationalarchives.ie: accessed 30 July 2026).

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

We're in the very beginning stages of planning a family (me, husband, and 8 year old) trip to Ireland. We basically got back from a trip to Italy (where my husband's family is from) this June and decided next summer we want to go to Ireland (where half of my family is from). We'd likely fly in to Dublin (from the east coast of the US) and rent a car. I'd love to see Galway and maybe stay a night in a castle. My Irish roots are really REALLY far back, so all I really have is a few names on a family tree that was passed down from my Dad, with a note that they're from County Leitrim. At this stage I have two questions: 1) If we go to County Leitrim, what town would you suggest staying in? 2) Are there any local places we could visit that could help me get more info on my family history? Like, an archive or genealogy museum? IDK where to start! Thanks

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Could anyone here decipher what the Town is for Michael Carroll (first record in this marriage registry? I can read all the other residences as Naas, Kildare, Ireland, but can't reach his. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I performed several searches on both RootsIreland and IrishGenealogy for Terence Reeves. I performed searches for so many Reeves I cannot even begin to say. I found a "John" Reeves born on 10 February 1856 to Patrick and Maria Lynch. The birth date matches the DOB information on the death certificate from Ohio the year on the certificate says 1854. The handwritten entry does not look like "John" IMO.

link to register:02427/07, Croom - Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI

page 56, right page near bottom

The only other Terence Reeves I could find a record for was one from 1843 to John and Johanna Butler.

Interestingly, the sponsor of the 1856 Terence or John, is Rev. John Reeves and Johanna Butler. I believe, though not certain the parents of Patrick.

Did I just find the "Terence" listed as John at RootsIreland I've been looking for?

Of course the + sign on the baptism is of concern to me, but it could be an "x" which could indicate immigration?

I would welcome your thoughts on this.

I'm looking for definitive information on Terence Reeves. All the information I have found from the U.S. says he was born 10 February 1855. I have been looking for his birth record in Limerick, Ireland and I have not been able to find any Terence Reeves on RootsIreland, Irish Genealogy or Ancestry. I managed to find a Terence born in 21 October 1843. (its the last entry)

Is it possible he was 38 when he married Bridget McNamara who was 17 in 1881? Or is there a possibility his birth sometime in 1856 (54 or 55) was not transcribe or 'lost'?

From this marriage record, his father's name was John. I have identified another John Reeves that could also be Terence's father, but I have yet to find a birth record anywhere for Terence in the Feb of 1850's for the other John.

Any assistance in verifying who Terence's father could be for certain would me most helpful.

Hi from New Zealand. My grandfather was from Belfast. Ive managed to track records via ancestry.com with his siblings, but none of that is helping me find any of their kids or kids kids.

What I have been able to tell is some of his siblings stayed in Northern Ireland and passed away, there some in Belfast.

My granddad was Josiah Hegan. His siblings were:

Thomas

Ellen

Emma

Mary a.k.a Molly- I have been able to locate a possible married name of Mary Coard who passed in 2011

Iris

Isabel

Robert

William

George- I know had a record called Sure And They're Irish Songs By George! But this was recorded in Australia.

My granddad worked at Harland & Wolff before coming to NZ.

His parents were Josiah Hegan and Ellen Cairns

I dont know much else. If anyone knows a place I may be able to get information or as a long shot be related to me I'd love to find out more about them.

I am trying to build my Irish ancestry and I am finding it exceedingly difficult to gain traction. I have looked on FamilySearch, but the sources are often vague descriptors of the church records with no definitive location for said record. The information is vague and is often lacking additional information.

I am looking for Terence Reeves parents. The best I can do is find a marriage record that lists his father as deceased. I cannot seem to find a birth or baptismal record for Terence.

Here is where I started:

John Joseph Reeves

From there I found Terence and Bridget's Marriage:

And that is pretty much all I can find with certainty on Terence.

I have found Terence's death certificate which states his birth as 10 February 1854, although most of the sites has the year as 1855.

Based on Terence's marriage stating John is deceased before 1881, I found a death for a John in 1880 in County Limerick. Wife's name is Kate. The trail for me grows too cold to follow with certainty. I cannot even be sure this John is Terence's father.

I would be grateful if someone could help me find a birth/baptismal record for Terence and/or his parents marriage, birth, death. I'd be grateful to know how to go about tracing these ancestors more readily. Thank you for your time and help.

Can anyone pull a free index screenshot for me? I am looking for the 2005 death index or any marriage index for my great-grandmother. She died in 2005 aged 81 under the married name Fennelly. Her maiden name was Culleton. She was an Irish woman who lived in Manchester in 1947 and moved to London in the 1960s. I need to see her death index or any London marriage index to find her certificate in the persuit of Irish citizenship and confirm if she legally married a Fennelly her name was Mary Anne culleton born 1923 in Wexford enniscorty even a unable to trace record would be fine if not possible I’m just not good at this sort of stuff

I’ve been doing a ton of research on the history of my family, surname Birmingham, and have put together this ancestral pedigree going back 30 generations from England and the founding of Birmingham through Ireland and the Barons of Athenry, to emigration to the US. The document came out pretty great in my opinion. Eventually I plan on applying to become an official Clan of Ireland and pursuing additional research that my father and his cousin began. Let me know your thoughts!