How to Begin: Start with Yourself and Work Backwards! Fill in a Family Tree and Family Group sheets (see Blank Forms section) with the information you have, including names (and nicknames), dates and locations of births, marriages and deaths, approximate if necessary, known siblings in each generation, and religious denomination ... [ more ] |
Challenges in Irish Family History Research Research challenges can include administrative divisions, misspellings, age variations, registrations and family lore. Keep an open mind; don't discount info because it doesn't match what you think you know! [ more ] |
Emigration Patterns Chain migration is the phenomenon when an immigrant already in American wrote home to bring out another. That immigrant in turn induced another to come out, and so on. Strong patterns of "chains" of emigration in some parts of Ireland resulted in Irish county settlements in the U.S. as follows ... [ more ] |
CT Irish-American
Heritage Trail
640 Arrowhead Drive
Orange, CT 06477
The Irish experience has had a profound impact on Connecticut's past, and its narrative spans all periods of the state's history and touches every one of its eight counties and 169 towns.
