Overseas ancestry

Learn how to search for your ancestry overseas and discover your international family tree

Formerly unemployed men travel from Toronto work on the trans-Canada highway, 1931 Canadian census records

Discover your past

When will the next Canadian census be released?

General Richard Mulcahy, the minister for defence, inspects Free State Soldiers at Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin, 2 February 1922 Irish volunteers

Overseas ancestry

Who were the Irish Volunteers?

The document collection

Irish historians ‘win the archive lottery’ after documents saved from skip

Huguenots Land At Dover

Overseas ancestry

Who were the Huguenots?

A 1926 Irish census form

Overseas ancestry

When will the 1926 Irish census be released?

German street musicians 1879

Overseas ancestry

How to tell if you have German ancestry

Indian Tea Plantation British in India

Overseas ancestry

How long were the British in India?

Irish wills. A wake in Ireland, 19th century

Overseas ancestry

How to find Irish wills

A party of child migrants about to leave for Canada, 1929

Overseas ancestry

What is child migration?

Passengers play games on board ship, 1936 passenger lists

Discover your past

How to find passenger lists for ships

If your family came from the Caribbean, you could also have British royal ancestry

Getting started

The best websites for tracing Caribbean ancestors

A tithe proctor visits a family in Ireland to fill in a tithe applotment book, 1830s

Overseas ancestry

Tithe applotment books: Our guide to finding your Irish ancestors’ land

A funeral in Florence, c. 1945 Italian ancestry

Overseas ancestry

How to research Italian ancestry

Irish ancestry. Farmers in Glenshesk, County Atrim, c. 1900

Overseas ancestry

Irish ancestry: How to trace Irish ancestry

Ruins of Mirtle Bank Hotel after the earthquake Jamaican ancestry

Overseas ancestry

Jamaican ancestry: How to find Jamaican family history records