Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 17, 2026
How to Find Irish Relatives With DNA Testing
Somewhere in your match list is a stranger who keeps your great-grandmother’s photograph on their mantel. DNA testing’s real gift to Irish research is not the ethnicity pie — it is this: living relatives, findable in weeks, holding the memory the archives never collected. Here…
Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 17, 2026
AncestryDNA vs MyHeritage DNA for Irish Ancestry
For Irish research, the AncestryDNA-versus-MyHeritage question has a clean answer — because the two services hold different halves of your family. The diaspora tested with one; Ireland and Europe lean toward the other. Choosing between them is really choosing which cousins you want to meet…
Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 16, 2026
Best DNA Test for Irish Ancestry (2026): All Four Services Compared
Irish DNA research has a specific shape: an enormous, scattered diaspora; a nineteenth century that burned half its censuses; and surnames so concentrated that paper alone struggles to tell ten thousand Ryans apart. DNA testing was practically invented for this problem — but the four…