Gilmartin FamilyTree DNA Project- Background

Background

I am looking to connect western New York State Gilmartins with ancestors in Ireland. After exhausting all obvious resources here, it is time to start using the tool designed for just such a dilemma - DNA testing. My ancestors were born in Ireland ~ 1801 so their birth records are not in any of the searchable databases in Ireland. They don't appear on any passenger lists that I can find either. They may be in the church registries, but with multiple parishes in each county, and 32 counties in Ireland, that is a lot of hand written church records to be studying.