Where you really
came from.
Not a guess and not a printout. We trace your family to its source in Ireland and prove it — by record and by blood — then tell you exactly what we found and how we know.
Depth in Ireland, not breadth everywhere.
We focus on Irish roots because depth compounds. Every family we trace, every archive we sit in, every townland and parish and surname pattern we come to know makes the next family's discovery sharper. A specialist who keeps returning to the same ground finds what a generalist walks past.
And every line we trace is researched to the Genealogical Proof Standard — an exhaustive search, sources cited, conflicts resolved, and a conclusion written to defend. When we tell you where you came from, we can show you exactly how we know.
Civil & Church Records
Irish civil registration, Catholic and Church of Ireland parish registers — births, marriages, deaths, christenings.
Land & Estate Records
Griffith's Valuation, Tithe Applotment, estate ledgers and rent rolls that place a family on a specific townland.
Emigration & Arrival
Passenger lists, naturalization, and the paper trail that connects the family who left to the family who stayed.
DNA, Read Properly
We interpret your existing DNA results and matches to confirm lines and break through where the paper trail goes quiet.
Existing Trees, Imported
Bring what you already have — any family tree exports cleanly into our research, so no work is ever lost or repeated.
The Archives Themselves
When the answer isn't online, we go to the records in person — the part of the work almost no one else still does.
DNA is where it starts —
not where it ends.
DNA reveals the likely lines and the cousins you never knew you had. Records test the evidence. And travel turns the paper trail into a place you can stand on. We read the DNA you already have, guide you to the tests and uploads that widen the picture, and fold it into the documentary research — so the science and the story confirm each other.
Begin with one family question.
Where did we come from? Can the line go back further? Who are the relatives we never knew? We start there.