The year before last I traced part of my family tree. It was very interesting seeing how the men on my Father’s side seemed to marry women from the next village over. During 150 years they managed to stay within about 5 miles of the original homestead.

However on my Mother’s side it was completely different. The men on her side moved around quite a bit, but I eventually traced them back to a small market town.

Well I was looking around and by chance stumbled on a photograph somebody had placed online of one of my ancestor’s gravestone.

I thought this was quite interesting and looked around for more photographs, but couldn’t find any.

Now my wife is trying to trace her ancestors and I discovered a very interesting website for those people researching their family tree. It is called Ancestral Ulster a site offering to photograph key locations of ancestral heritage, like townlands,family homes, places of worship, gravestones.

You can even have a 360 degree virtual panoramic including an aerial panoramic which is an interactive 360 panoramic but taken from above up to 85 feet above the ground.

Tracing a family tree in Northern Ireland is a lot harder than we first thought. I managed to trace most of my ancestors through Ancestry.co.uk in a matter of hours. The records for Ireland including Ulster are due to go online later this year – so hopefully it will get easier.