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.
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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.
Heritage Documentaries
The long-form films — four hundred years behind a single family name.
The Ziegler–Sickler Story — The Name That Gave Nothing Away
It began with a DNA match and a surname that led nowhere. Nine generations later — a German village, a trade handed down, a name changed in a new country — the family's story stood documented, not guessed. A film about what a name can hide, and what the records finally gave up.
Almost Home — The French Name Hidden on an Iowa Grave
A French name — Bruno — on an Iowa frontier grave, and one word for where he came from: Canada. Just that. Five generations couldn't find the rest of the sentence. With a DNA network and Quebec's parish registers, we told a dozen right names on a dozen wrong men apart — and found the name before the name: Petit dit Bruneau, back to Paris and a Huguenot child in Castres. One door still remains.
The Record No One Read — The Page That Ended a 175-Year Search
Part two, and the payoff. One door still hadn't opened: which man, exactly, fathered Antoine Bruno? Everyone expected a letter. Instead the answer was a baby's burial from 1813 — a record sitting open in a Quebec parish register for two hundred years that not one searcher, in 175 years of trying, had ever read. Four boys, one name; we ended three by their own records and left exactly one man standing. From one name to nine generations, an ocean, and four centuries — Paris, Castres, and the fur-trade road west. Documented, not guessed.
The Traitor Named Lundy — The Man History Got Wrong
For three hundred years a walled city has burned one man in effigy for a single word: traitor. His name was Lundy — and it became our name. The four-hundred-year journey of a name history convicted, and the family that inherited the sentence.
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.