Thank you for visiting my blog, which I started as a way to enhance an upcoming 50th birthday trip to the home of most of my ancestors. This blog will contain musings about all things Irish, as well as travel tips, book and movie reviews, restaurant and lodging reviews, and a rolling count of how many pints of Guinness we consume on the trip. Hope you enjoy traveling with us!
Ottawa Valley Dance & The Chieftains
Thursday, October 10, 2013
A Geo-Genealogy of Irish Surnames
I haven't been very good about posting lately - too busy working in the garden this summer! The potato harvest was my best yet, and some of my potatoes even went to the State Fair this year :-) I will be posting more regularly with notes from our April/May 2013 trip to Ireland, so please do check back occasionally or sign up for email updates.
In the meantime, I wanted to share this fun website that allows you to search Ireland by county or by surname for your ancestors. I found some surprises! I'm mailing in my AncestryDNA kit today, too, so we'll see what surprises those results bring! http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/ireland/
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