Tracing your Irish family relatives can be extremely simple or, in some cases can be like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. In either situation a practical approach to tracing your relatives is often the best approach.

Research methods

There are many research methods available to Genealogists ranging from the personal to the historical to the scientific. To use a basic example, a father has a personal relation to his son; this is denoted on both his birth and baptism certificates and this, in turn, can now be verified by DNA testing, as Courts around the world have done in innumerable succession and paternity cases.