re: #253 HappyWarrior
Yeah no doubt. Honestly in a lot of places, there aren’t any records before the 18th century. Ireland started registering births in the 1860’s I believe which makes me SOL since my last direct ancestor left Ireland in the early 1850’s.
The English pulped some of the Irish records. Then there was a great fire that destroyed more of the Irish records.
However, there is a substantial effort in Ireland to recreate the past, with lots of work on genealogy and DNA testing. That may help fill in some holes.