The Lundy Homecoming
Our founding family, and the prototype for everything we do. Four generations searched a hundred years for the way back to Ireland — this is what happened when they walked through the door together.
Watch & learn
The Film & Research Library
Everything we've filmed, in one place. The homecoming films show you the outcome. The records & method series shows you exactly how the work gets done — the same rigor we'd bring to your family.
The Homecoming Films
The outcome, on screen — real families standing on real ground.
The Family Who Walks It With You
From the first conversation to the last evening around the table in Ireland, you are with the same people the whole way through. Meet the family behind Genesis Legacy Journeys.
Irish Records & Method
How the work actually gets done — the records, the order, and why a wall finally gives way.
What Is a Townland? The Hidden Key to Irish Ancestry
What is a townland, and why does it matter more than a county for Irish ancestry? The smallest land division in Ireland is the single most important unit for tracing your Irish family.
Why You Can't Find Your Irish Ancestors (And the Order That Fixes It)
Why so many Irish family searches hit a brick wall — and the correct order to trace your Irish ancestors so the wall finally gives way.
From a Surname to a Townland
How you go from just a surname to the exact townland your Irish family came from — emigrant records, surname distribution, Griffith's Valuation, and the parish register.
Your DNA Says 38% Irish. That's Not a Family.
What a DNA test can and can't tell you about your Irish ancestry — and how to combine it with real records to find the townland your ancestors came from.
Griffith's Valuation: Ireland's Almost-Lost Census
Griffith's Valuation (1847–1864) is the most important single record in Irish genealogy — a name-by-name, townland-by-townland survey that stands in for Ireland's lost 19th-century censuses.
The Day Ireland's Records Burned: 1922
How Ireland lost almost all of its 19th-century census records — some to neglect, and the 1821–1851 returns to the 1922 fire at the Public Record Office in Dublin — and what survives.
The Letter That Crossed the Ocean
How researchers trace Famine-era Irish emigrants — following them to where they landed, and reconnecting the family who left with the family who stayed.
Three Generations, One Homecoming
What a hosted Irish heritage homecoming actually feels like — three generations, one house, and the exact townland their ancestors left.
Where did your people come from?
Every one of these began with a single name and a question. Yours can too.