Irish Forfeitures manuscript access Trinity College Library Dublin

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8. If Irish...

Need to start with some relation you KNOW at least something about,,

Paternal
Maternal

Grandparents names
Possible places they lived in US or wherever

IF your relatives Fought in US Civil War,,,
Those records have sometimes key information on
where they were born, what country etc
Especially IF they got a military pension (? Not sure that’s the correct term)

Then general searches at different Irish databases,

Or depending on when,,, ship manifest records,
Although a lot are missing data.

If later arrivals, then records at Ellis Island.

IF from Spain, then you have get from that country’s records.
My spouse has way too common a Spanish name,, so it’s very difficult
to find any specific