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Tracing your Irish ancestors

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Previously, there was very little online and what

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there was, was quite difficult to find.

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I'm very pleased to say that things

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have got an awful lot easier.

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You might wonder why you might go to The National Archives in England

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to find out about your Irish ancestry?

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We're not the first place you should go.

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When you're doing family history, everybody knows you should start at home.

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Then you probably want to look at births, marriages and deaths, parish records, wills and census returns.

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We don't have any of those for Ireland.