From one who isn’t Irish
No amount of finagling on behalf of a cousin who dearly wants to be Irish is going to change the facts: The Legal Genealogist isn’t Irish.
Scots-Irish, yes. Irish Irish, no.
There is not so much as a hint in our family’s paper trail that we have Irish ancestors.
And our DNA doesn’t show it either.
No Irish communities at AncestryDNA.
No highly likely or even likely Irish at 23andMe.
Not a shred of Irish at Family Tree DNA or MyHeritage DNA or Living DNA.
We are, simply, not Irish.
But that doesn’t stop us from wishing all those whose DNA says they are Irish a Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Happy St. Patrick’s Day,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 17 Mar 2019).
I have a brick wall finding my Irish ancestors. Name, dna, church… no birth certificate no parents name. Nothing nada zilch. Her husband has no past either. So weird. But there were fires in nyc so… there we have it. (I have a cousin who does real searching and documenting and she can’t get through that walk either)
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ort.
What little Irish I have is all Ulster so I’m wearin the Orange today.
I used to have a blouse I wore every March 17th. It looked green… until you noticed the orange in the background… 🙂
My grandfather’s sisters were great story tellers. They convinced each other that they had Irish roots, and the myth showed up in Canadian census records. Not a shred of evidence. My late aunt believed it too. She pointed to my Grandmom cooking corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick’s Day, and the fact that my Grandfather’s nickname was Duffy. I met a 90 y.o. almost 40 years ago who explained the latter. He said he was called Duffy only because he loved his Duffy’s malt liquor so much! And yes, he was arrested for possession during prohibition…
That’s hilarious! We all love those stories…