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My Irish father once told me he paid $500 to look up the family tree and another $500 to shut it up.

I only learnt recently that as my father was born in Ireland, I was an Irish citizen from birth in another country and entitled to an Irish passport, which I now hold. Thanks Dad 👍♥️

My father is a red-headed man named Mike Yates, and my great grandfather on my mom's side has a deep Irish heritage. I've always been proud of my Irish heritage and I always will be!

For such a small country, we sure spread far and wide didn't we !!!🍀🍀🍀

My father was Welsh , and my mother was Hungarian , I'm Well Hung !

Just wanted to encourage my fellow Irish to have a ferritin level taken (blood test). Hemochromatosis, is very common in people of Irish lineage. Turns out, I got the gene from both of my parents. (There are two different genes that can cause you to have hemochromatosis. I got one of each kind, from each parent). That means my kids will either have it, or be carriers. Read up on this disease-your body cannot get rid of iron. Thus the iron can accumulate in your organs-brain, liver, you name it. This isn’t a joke. Thanks for making this video-spread the word. I loved this video, it was so interesting!!

I do. My father was born in Dublin and all his side of the family were Irish save for his mother who was born in New York to Scottish parents. I am British but now live in France only to find that the roots of my family name are French. My dad never had an Irish passport because he moved to UK prior to the war then served in a British regiment after the war ended. I have dual nationality with UK and Ireland and a passport for both. My dad was so pleased when I got my Irish passport he became quite emotional. Sadly he is no longer with us.

My grandmother was Irish, and my grandfather French Canadian. She spoke no french, he spoke no english, but they had 12 children, which suggests a language all their own. Tracing paternal surnames is easy, but I have no idea what my grandmother's maiden name was, so maternal Irish names gets lost with marriage. Luckily I knew her, and she was a proud Irishwoman, so I am certain of my geneology. I am french with an Irish temper.

My cousin, very proud of his Irish roots did the DNA thing and discovered he was only half Irish. I asked him how that was possible. He said men of his family were always successful with women from all over the world.

A detail that has been left out is that many Irish emigrants during the famine era changed their name when they got to America as they feared they would not get work or that having an Irish name they would be looked upon unfavourably. The Irish we're not always very welcome in America especially in cities like New York and the bigger cities. It is a known fact that people changed their names, sometimes to something similar to what it was originally. That's why you get names that sound vaguely like Irish ones but you never find here in Ireland.

The best records I got to trace a lot of my Irish ancestry were in the Catholic Church. Thank you for an interesting talk

Good little documentary but I will correct you on 1 thing. The reason why Murphy Kelly pronounced in English was because the British outlawed Gaelic language and made it illegal to speak it along with other laws that more or less sabotaged Irish culture.

Hello fam. I'm from the Garden of Eden. Just having a hard time finding where its located. My ancestors got on a REALLY BIG BOAT, that landed on a mountaintop. They decided they thought they knew better than God and built a tower reaching into the sky. The first skyscraper. After that all of us where separated and ended up in different places on this earth. So I have relatives all over this world. Too many to count and invite over to dinner. Talk about having a family reunion. It doesn't get any more ancient then that. Eventually those that went to England, Wales, Ireland, Sweden, and Scotland became my most recent ancestors. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We are a mixed race African American family who ancestry dates back to 1619 to the Jamestown region. Mixed with Native American about 400 years we were made into indentured servants in the Charles County, Maryland bloodline and during that time mated with colonial Europeans. Then about 200 years later my mixed race 7th great grandmother who eventually migrated to Richmond, Kentucky had a son with a David Irvine, b. 1721 Gleno, Ireland d. 1804 Madison County, Kentucky. So by 2021 our family DNA analysis revealed we are basically on average 59% African, 40% European and 1% Native American. I alone have 25% Scots-Irish in my DNA... the rest is English and German.

One of my great-great grandmothers had mentioned (in her husband's pension record) that she was born in Blackcommon, Co Tipperary; and her death certificate lists her parents' names. I started looking through Irish baptismal records (+/- 4 years) for that parish (Ballingary), and found that a woman by the same name was born to parents (of the same name) 3 years before my great-great grandmother stated(which could be possible - people probably didn't have calendars hanging on their walls back then). I even found the property (according to Griffith's Valuation), that HER parents lived on. Sadly, according to Google Earth, no structure stands on that property now...).

One huge factor is that many that came to America would give their name on the ship and it would be written down however the writer wanted to spell it. Kinnehan for example turned into Cunningham in our family because of this. Not that they aren't interchangeable in some instances but this applies especially to folks who weren't literate. My mom's family's name has 14 variations, depending on what part of the family you're in. lol

Years ago doing heraldry research (which is ongoing albeit a casual hobby) I noticed subtle name changes, mostly in the spelling. Recently I purchased a book about white slavery which was really bad long before black slavery. Something I had no idea about but the historical facts back it all up. Many British, Scottish and Irish people were brought over to the New World through deceit and trickery and plain outright kidnapping. The numbers are astonishing to say the least. The names of some were changed or spelt differently once they got here (mostly the kidnapped ones). My husband's lineage is Scottish. According to this book many Scots came over to America (some legitimately, others by trickery). Where they mostly populated is the east coast of which this is where my husband's family is from. They took homeless people off the streets of London, (also done in Ireland and Scotland) orphans, prisoners, you name it, they took them. The adults were told they could be released from prison, or their current life made better, if they agreed to go over to America and work for seven years for a plantation owner. They would be given headrights but initially the acreage would be given to the land owner to increase his lot. however, in most cases if the indentured servant committed even the slightest infraction, the court system added additional years on to the contract and they never got the land they were promised. This is just one aspect of this, the book is chocked full of very eye opening history. When I first purchased the book I figured it might be light reading. Little did I know how much it would add to the research I've been doing. It's become a very important resource.

I am a McNeill. My ancestor Michael McNeill abandoned Ireland in the 1840s during the Potato famine moving first to Scotland with his wife Mary. I find fault with what the commentator suggests that I could find the origins of my family name. From his suggestion it seems that anyone having a father called Neil would call themselves MC or son of, that I understand. My problem is that, just that ANYONE! which means that Many people at different times and locations could call themselves "The Son of Neil". So in the course of time many families called "Sons of Neil" or "McNeills" and thereby all the other Mc's and O's could spring up anywhere in the country and be totally unrelated in any meaningful way. This theory also fails to account for the McNeills of Scotland. It also fails to account for the Viking invasions in that area of Scotland and Ireland and creating settlements bringing their family names that could have been altered as they adopted the local customs and languages. One such name such Vikings have brought is Neilson the exact Viking version of my family name. In fact DNA analysis of the McNeills of the Scottish islands suggests the family have Viking ancestors.

Some of my family came from County Mayo, western Ireland. Name was Baillie, was changed to Bailey after coming to America about 1670.

The seed for my history was planted when I was too young to have interest. I wish I could have a conversation with my maternal grandparents. There is some paperwork collected by my Mom and her first cousin, that my cousin will not give me access to. She says I need to leave those dead people alone! Black genealogy is difficult enough without family members interfering and road blocking.

My surname is Flaherty. I visited Ireland 🇮🇪 for the 1st time last year. I did the Irish ☘️ Rail Tour. I never seen such beautiful country in my life. I can’t wait to go back. Beautiful people & Country 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️

As an Irish person watching this his pronunciation of some words is funny

My father (Torpy)and mother (Congdon) traced their Irish ancestory back as far as was possible, and both finished up at (County Clare) in 1555, where a Torpy had married a Congdon exactley 400 years to the day that my parents were married, the records before that had been lost to fire, and my father asked the priest if there was any older landmarks about, and the priest replied, he had heard of an old graveyard now barren of any headstones down near the river bank, my father visited this grassed area of riverbank and after a time started kicking tufts of grass up with his shoe, uncovering a massive granite slab with the word "Torpy" etched into it! 😱

We had a whole bunch of history open up for us once my brother figured out Courtney was changed from Cuirnane. He even found a farm in Killarney still in the family and got to meet them and they invited him in. Very cool.

My maiden name is O'Brien. All four of my father's grandparents were born in Ireland. We traced the family back to King MIlesius of A Coruña, Spain. I married a Spaniard.

This is incredibly simplistic and frankly applies to any lineage from any country.

Our family's research led us to believe that my father's family came from the Republic of Cork, Ire. On my first visit to the City of Cork, I was quite floored when I found our surname was all over the place, from fish mongers to bakeries, to taxi's, and on and on. Here in the states, it's very uncommon, especially in the south. There's a number of "us" up in New England, but unicorns everywhere else.

My great times 100 grandfather escaped Ireland and came to the US and fought in the Revolutionary war. I’m always reminded of that

I was adopted at 6 months of age and my name was changed. But my birth name was David Wayne O'Brien. I'd say there is some Irish in there somewhere.

My father's mother was an Obrian, and my mother's father was a Riley. They all combined with a smattering of German and English to make me a Canadian.

My family traces their ancestry way back to Niall of the Nine Hostages, high king of Ireland from about 379 to 405 A.D we also a few other very strong kingships connections but we do not like to talk too much about. Not until we get our hands on some property deeds with good lands, great views, lakes and fine free-flowing rivers

So happy to have found your channel. Thank you🍀☘️🍀

Thank you so much for the notes! Just need to get my printer working and I can print this out. I am trying to leave ancestral info for my kids, this will help tons. 😃

So many folks changed their names when they came to America. My mother's family came to Mississippi and changed their Slavic surname to McBay to fit in with the rural mainly Scottish/Irish population of their region of the state. Part of my father's family changed the Bulgarian Jordanov to Jordan.

This is awesome! Thank you!

Through research of coloring, surname, and DNA, I was able to figure out I'm 65% Irish and my family came out of Galway. What's even more interesting (to me) is that most of my Irish background is from the darker side of the family.

I started working on my family genealogy because I was interested in finding out where the epilepsy came from. I ended up doing my DNA and found out I was 76.2% Irish. I wasn't that surprised because 60% of my family has red hair. My husband and I have black hair but our children and grandchildren have red hair. After much research I found out my family's are all from the Dublin area. I have 5 separate families that migrated from Ireland. I'm proud of my discovery.

I'm of Irish ancestry and when I heard the new guy's accent I asked where he was from. "Ireland." was his reply. I was happy and excited and said, " You're Irish? Me too!" He looked at me deadpan and and said, "Are you, now?" I never felt so far from Irish...

Most people don't realize my Irish ancestry when I tell them my Irish surname was Sisk. That line of my family was in the New World before the Revolution.

For starters, Mont and Dale (for eg) are both English elements of names. People in Ireland with those in their names are descended from English. Irish people did not Anglicise their names or place names that was done by the English. O' as in O'Sullivan, does not mean really mean son of...that is Mac or Mc (coming from the Gaelige Mic, meaning son). O' means 'descendant of' or 'belonging to the clan of' it can also mean 'the grandson of'.

I was told by my Father that Parkers originated in England but later settled in Northern Ireland! Looked up the origin of Parker and they were caretakers of the parks(land) and animals! Gave me some insight into my ancestory, I am an avid animal lover and love gardening and lawn care! I would love to visit Ireland one day!

Good piece, I learned some things I never knew or heard of before!!!

Having been born and raised in the Caribbean, I always thought that I had gaellic Spanish ancestry until I went to the mainland USA. Then people started asking me why I had a "funny" accent and saying that I was French Irish. More recently, while completing genealogical research I have found last names like Irlanda, Morfi and Solivan among my ancestors. I do have very "Irish" looking relatives.

I am part black Irish we have Riley, Ryan, my mother is from a carribbean island called Montserrat where the Irish people lived as overseers during slavery, not that the irish folk were treated well even with the jobs they had, when slavery was abolished the islanders kicked out the British and many Irish people stayed and integrated with the islanders. There are a few more surnames in my family but I am not sure if they are Irish such as Semper, Bradshaw, Cabey to name but a few.

I have 48% Irish dna, my grandpa is over 50% and his dad was 100%! Last name Sullivan, originated from Munster County Cork! They were wheat farmers after immigrating to America during the potato famine. I found a small community paper that spoke of the "new Irish settlers" moving into town(talking about my family). The writers made the community sound like they were nervous or curious about the Irish. Most if the community was made up of Norwegians.

Have been happy to visit Ancestral Findings ✍️

From my DNA i learned that I did have an Irish background as I was told as a young boy. My surname is close to the name Fitz. Now for the kicker, I have two grandchildren, one boy and one girl, who happen to have light red or auburn hair. Before my DNA results I was amazed, where did this color hair come from, now I know, from their grandfather.

Surname does not mean "sired by". Wiktionary confirms it is from French sur-nom from the Latin super-nomen which means over-name. In other words, a name that describes all the members of one family

My mum's side is very Irish. Being entirely Irish until her generation. Her last name is Creagh and there is a lot of interesting history.

My brother had DNA done and said was English and Irish. My sister said she was shocked. I said why I have been telling you this forever. Our sir name was Raymond. For years I told them lots of Raymond's live in London. My grandmother's sir name was Ward. She was red head.

My grandfather's surname was McElroy😊 and my grandma's name was Mary Alice McAllister..good old fashioned Irish names, I've resigned myself to the fact that I will probably never see Ireland, it's always been a dream of mine..it's on my bucket list!

I decided to do a little research on my family name, which is Dew, and was lucky to find a verified genealogy of my family that goes back to the early and mid 1600’s with Thomas Dew coming to the Americas around 1618 in the ship Alice. From what I’ve found the original spelling is spelled Dhu. The name means in Celtic, Gaelic, and Welsh, black or of dark complexion. It’s thought the dark complexion was possibly inherited from the dark-skinned Romans that invaded around 45A.D. I found a whole book about our genealogy that was published in the 1930’s and, and such, has my grandfather in it who was born in 1906. The book had been digitized and put online only 2 weeks before I randomly decided to research it. Kinda blows my mind.

I'm Scottish and my uncle had done a geneology tracing our family's heritage. One of my ancestresses carried the surname, McGowan.

I'm sure I have Irish heritage . I was born in Dublin . My father's family was from County Mayo as far as can be traced . The same was true on my mother's side . My family moved to Canada and after 8 yrs of waiting to to enter legally , we moved to the US.

My mom and dads family came from the south of Ireland. My moms from Tralee in Kerry and my dads in cork and Tipperary. My moms DNA showed her as 88% Irish the rest being Scottish Welsh and Norwegian. Her family came over through Canada into Buffalo

Just a little distinction on the Brian O'Brien point it's doesn't really mean Brian jr that would be Brian óg (sometimes written as one word) the Brian in O'Brien refers to Brian Boru so you'd be Brian descendant of Brian Boru (or the clan he formed after his ascent to high king)

Kept my family surname of Noonan. Mother's maiden name was Kelley. Dad's ancestors went to Boston, Massachusetts, from County Cork during the famine. Both grandmothers were born in Nova Scotia, Canada.

I come from the Armstrongs that lived in St Croix. One of them, married a Dutch fella with the surname Cuvelje. They migrated to Ponce, PR. One of their kids got my GGGrandmother pregnant by around 1870 and here I am!

My Clarke’s in Ireland immigrated to Ontario Canada before the famine. Then made their way to northern Michigan. I a very old photo of that 4th or 5th great grandpa Clarke. They were Orangemen.

Very interesting and helpful! Thank you so much and God bless everyone

I have a shrink with a very good sense of humor, because I'm mostly Irish and my face "is the very map" he always wishes me a Happy St. Patrick's Day, a couple of years ago he told me he was Irish for the day, he's from Turkey and I a Muslim. I laughed so hard, now every St. Paddy's i call him Dr. O'........, we both have a great laugh over it. If my mum was alive she would have a conniption!

Yep definitely I. Irish on my nans side her blood line goes way way back . My great grand dad was German and my grandad was born in Ireland. I was born in Ireland 🇮🇪. So I'm a happy Paddy

My 2 nd Great Grandfather Michael Moloney (Maloney) came from Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland. He was a travelling Tailor. His wife Flora(Florence ) Donnelly came from CLONMEL, Tipperary, Ireland. She was a child when she came to Lancashire , England. Im proud to have Irish Ancesters. This is on my fathers Paternal side. On his maternal side I have 2 nd Great Grandparents, Owen King and Catherine Owens from Roscommon, Ireland.

Thanks, my surname is Havron, in irish. Ó hAmhráin, or son of Amhrán, Supposedly the name of a family who were anciently chiefs of Dal Fiatach.

My Grandad is an O’Brien and my Grandma is a Bourke and both came from County Mayo, Ireland. They both moved to Liverpool in England in a place called Wigan. My dad had a brother who stayed in Liverpool till his death and my dad moved around because he joined the airlines and married my mum who came from Portugal. My parents had 4 children born in different countries, Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong, Australia and Africa. We went to school in Africa, Malaysia, Kuwait and finally moving to Sydney, Australia but settling after a couple of years in Melbourne. My beloved father has since passed but his stories, faith and love live on. Rest In Peace dada and thank you for our faith and such an amazing life 🙏

My father gave me the name Lynch which was originally Norman … d Luca from the time of William 1066…… my mother gave me the name OShea which is ab ancient clan name from the Cork area of Ireland. That’s all I know but I would love to know more of my family’s history.

Just WOW!!! So interesting!!! Thank you..Jones here

My paternal great grandfather was Irish with surname of Green. Paternal great granny's surname was Casson. My maternal great grandfather's surname was Feehan and great grandmother, a Scot, was Campbell.

My family name is Comyns, we came from Southern Ireland, this name is spelled in many different ways for simplicity’s sake. There is a castle in Scotland called Comyn Castle and this was a royal family name. It’s fascinating to me and one other thing in our family is how many of us have O neg blood, this may have come from The Basque region of France.

I’m Scottish my mum’s Scottish but my dads family were Irish my heritage results were 83% Irish/Scottish/Welsh in that order the rest is Southern Greece Southern Italy & 5% Baltic My surname is Muldoon & I’m definitely going to start my family tree.

Yes, am 'proud' of Irish blood lines, just as I am of my Scottish. Then there's my mother's German and English side. Both sides made it to the USA & here I am!😊

My mother's last name is Mckoy . So I went into a Scottish gift shop to try find out more. The shop owner was Scottish and from Scotland he' showed me a huge book with clan names in it he told me that Mckoy was native Irish a very old name before it changed to McCoy when migrated to Scotland so very interesting I've been searching a lot more now

If you can have 12 shots of whisky and still manage to punch your way out of an argument, your officially Irish....and double that if your a cop.

They have some of the most background and detailed historical events

I am adopted. I found my natural mother and she is a Cooper and from what she told me about my natural father is that he was a Nicholas/ McNicholas. I also took a DNA test and found that I am 65% Irish decent and 35% Netherlands Dutch…

Our name is McGill.My mothers aunts became nuns in Ireland.The three sisters were sent to work with Mother Theresa in Calcutta India.We would exchange letters and gifts.They also sent reports about everything they were doing to help the poor people and lepers.They spent the rest of their lives there helping Mother Theresa in all she did.

O’Briens, McWilliams, Neels, Daltons in our family tree. Been to Ireland twice. A lovely country with lovely people.

My family name is O'Donahue, and I've tried looking for stuff about it but I haven't been able to find out a lot. So I hope this video will help out some!

Genealogical research is rather difficult, since my ancestor with my surname was illiterate and his name was Patrick, and there are so many people named Patrick Walsh/Welch that it's basically impossible to figure out which one could be him prior to him settling in WV. Family history (including his grandchildren, insisted the name was originally Walsh). I do know that he came with a bunch of people from Galway to Baltimore, where they all were hired off the boat by the B&O Railroad and sent to work in WV. I know nothing for sure about him in Ireland, though. I believe I found his wife's baptism record in Galway, as her name is much rarer, but I don't know when or where they married. DNA records from more than one service specifically say my Irish ancestry comes from Galway. I also have conflicting information as to whether his son was born in Ireland or Ohio, but it would have been a baby or toddler when he came over either way. I believe he was most likely born in Ohio, though.

Being 100 % Irish. It is lovely to see people finding their heritage. It would be a lot easier if the fire in 1922 had not destroyed a lot of the records going back over a hundred yrs. Some are lost for good. .

My maiden name is McElhannon. Most people can’t pronounce it correctly. A lot of people who immigrated had their name mangled or changed completely by the people who processed them.

Need a whole video on Anglicization of Irish Gaeilge surnames. In one branch of my tree I had a slew of Rogers who I shared with McGrory , McCrory, Macgrorie

My grandfather immigrated to Canada from Co. Antrim in 1913. His last name was Gingles, and I was able to trace it back to my great grandparents but I still have no idea about the origins of the name.

My great-grandfather was a Moore. Beyond that, I have no idea. He claimed on the WWII draft notice (he was almost 70 at the time), he said he was born in County Clare. I called the County Clare genealogy department at the library, they said his name was rare for that part of Ireland.

McLysaghts book featuring Irish surnames is a good source of family histories on a very general way.

Blaney and Currie from Ireland here. Has been very hard to research due to the fact the families were so large and most used EXACTLY the same names for their kids in each family. Also found quite a few who had named a later child with the same first name as one child who had died young. Thanks for this info.

Wow very insightful very rich in information

Really good explanations. Through professional genealogists, I know that I have descendantcy to Brian Boru through my 6th great grandmother, Rebecca Bryan.

Regrettably no. However I can heartily recommend to viewers of your channel; Fine quality Irish Whiskey. Cheers.👍 to you one and all.❤

Courtney’s from Waterford ... I married a Kelly from Cobh. Pretty sure a huge percentage of Americans are Irish heritage. Unreal.

My tutor at Uni when I did an Irish history module told me that the ‘O’ prefix stands for grandson of, whereas Mc is son of.

Fun channel; ty!!

💚 my father was a Casey but before they came to the US it was spelled O'cathasaigh 💚

I been told my ancestors from scotland (McCord) were originally from the isle of skye but a big part of the family lived in northern ireland for a couple of generations before moving to america.

Traced our arrival in the USA from Ireland in 1651. Good enough for me. Thomas and Hugh were prominent first names thru out every generation. There were some good guys and bad guys too. My older brother received the Thomas but did not past it on.

My gt grandfather was Robert Quin,he married 3 times so had 17 children,i descend from the third wife,he came to Western Australia with first wife and 6 kids by boat in the 1800s and worked as a surveyor and has several places named after him

I have O'Neill in my tree. Their American surname was Neill. They took out the O' William Neill was born in Ireland around 1725 he was the Captain of the North Carolina Militia. His Grandfather was a O'Neill. Possibly from the Ó Néill dynasty

My 6th great grandfather came from Antrim he was born there about1750 and dmigrated here with his brother William . They both fought in the American war for independence. My ancestor hated tories All of his life because they had broken his health on a british prison ship after a. Tory betrayed a group of patriots and they were captured in a surprise raid by the british troops.

My dad's family had a verbal story about 5 brothers leaving Cork and we're decended from one of them, possibly a John Barrett. But I hit a block when looking. My DNA is only 9% Irish. I did trace a Hadley to 1670 in County of Westmeath though.