Starting your research on Irish genealogy can be a daunting task. Where do I start? The list of possible places where you could find information on your family is long but luckily, the Library of Congress.
Researcher Beware - Sometimes the AncestryDNA ThruLines Are Wrong
I receive very few NEW AncestryDNA thruLines these days - occasionally one a week. But I check each one out. I now have about 430 of them.
1) I received a new one last week, with the common ancestors of my so-called Potential Ancestors 5th great-grandparents Johannes Rowe and Catherine Loescher. The Rau/Rowe and Loescher families of New York were Palatines from Germany and the families are in the Henry Z. Jones
My genealogical research has found no evidence that they are the parents of my 4th great-grandfather, Philip Rowe (1752-1817) of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, but many online family trees at Ancestry.com and other sites show Philip Jacob Row as the son of Johannes and Catherine (Loescher) Rowe (or Row or Rau or Rauh) of Dutchess County, New York.