To discover your Irish roots start by working back through generation by generation. Older members of the family are ideal helps who will have heard the handed down family traditions. Sift through old photographs and documentation from the family archives, these could be invaluable to you.

 

The Central Signposting Index, known as CSI, has a huge database of 3 million genealogical records which could help you in your search. It contains records of births, baptisms and marriages as well as Griffiths Valuation and the 1901 census details for the following counties:

 

Derry, Donegal, Caven, Armagh, Limerick and Leitrim Fermanagh and Mayo, Sligo, Tyrone and Wexford.

 

Click on http://www.irishgenealogy.ie  and you will be guided to the local geneaology centre in your county of choice. You may just find the necessary records there