
Brian Donovan
Brian can trace his paternal lineage back over 1,000 years in Ireland, and his maternal ancestry through Germany, Scotland and Ulster to the USA and Canada and back to Ireland. He is a trained academic historian of the 16th and 17th centuries and while he revels in evidence from that time frame, he is passionate about unearthing new sources to help trace the poor, landless and destitute.

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