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Computers are readily available in libraries or internet cafés (or friends’ houses!). If you don’t use the Internet already, I would strongly recommend learning from a friend or joining a class, as it will make tracing your Irish roots vastly easier. If you absolutely can’t bear the idea, ask an Internet-savvy friend or relative to do your look-ups for you.

The Internet is a vast, random whirlpool of information. Besides the research sites recommended later on, there are several excellent ones that put like-minded genealogists in touch with each other, such as the British www.genesreunited.com, American www.onegreatfamily.com and www.ancestry.com/uk which is American and British – though there’s much overlap, especially for Ireland. You enter names, dates and places for your family and the sites tell you if anyone else has entered the same ancestors. Equally, when new ancestors join and enter the same relatives, they’ll easily find you. It’s a new method, that really works.