How do i find my ancestor line on the waldron side when i have no one to ask and i am stuck, how to find a match

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My mother is a waldron, her gggrandfather micheal waldron married Mary Cain and i am stuck on who and where they came from or any information on them. Their child richard waldron born 1840 ended up in australia and married.

My mums aunt Nola waldron (married name viney) went to the ireland 2000 waldron clan get together.  But since she is now mentally unwell we dont have any information about our waldron ancestary or lineage further than micheal and mary cain.  Can someone help me please.  

Kindest regards

Judy
in Genealogy Help by Judy Hills G2G Crew (370 points)

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There were and are some Waldron families in various parts of County Wicklow, Ireland - one of my 4th great grandfathers was a Robert Waldron from Bray, born circa 1777, but early parish records are very sparse, and you are unlikely to be able to make any connections. DNA is probably your best next step.
by Nigel O'Connor G2G3 (3.2k points)
Thanks Nigel, i have my gedcom and have my mums aswell but who do i start comparing this with? What waldron line do we belong to?  It said galway ireland on Richard joseph waldrons death certificate and his parents names but i am at an end in finding them.  Is there any websites i can go to other than the irish ones i have gone to and got no where?

Kindest regards Judy
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Hi Judy

Your greataunt's name is familiar and I may have corresponded with her in the distant past.  I attended the 1997 Waldron Clan Gathering, but not the 2000 one, so I probably never met her.  I had a quick skim through the Waldron Clan Journals and membership directories, but didn't spot any mention of her, not even in the extensive report on the 2000 gathering.

Some general advice on your quest:

* include Waldron as a tag in your G2G posts (you can go back and edit the tags for your previous posts)
* join the Waldron Clan Association Facebook group
* invite your mother to sign up on WikiTree
* upload your AncestryDNA data to FTDNA if you have not already done so, as you have done at GEDmatch
* join the Waldron project at FTDNA or, better still, persuade a male Waldron uncle, cousin, etc., to do so and club together with family members to purchase Big Y-700 analysis for him

While civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in parts of the so-called United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, unfortunately the kingdom was not united for genealogical purposes and civil registration was not extended to Ireland until 1 Jan 1864, so will be of no help in your search for an ancestor who left Ireland in 1862.  Church records can sometimes help before 1864, but unfortunately for many parishes they have not survived, or never existed.

Your mother matches three GEDmatch kits managed by me, but all of them (and one or two others that I recognise) are from the west of County Clare (where my grandmother was born) and have nothing to do with my grandfather's Waldron ancestors from County Roscommon.

I wondered whether the matches to the kits which I manage might be through your McInerney ancestors, as that is a very common surname in West Clare, but I see from your Ancestry pedigree chart that your McInerney ancestors were from County Limerick.

Sorry that I can't be of any more help

Paddy Waldron

by Paddy Waldron G2G6 Mach 6 (62.7k points)
PS: You will probably want to revisit the estimated birth years of your McInerney ancestors before you add them to WikiTree as on Ancestry you currently have only about 11 years between your greatgrandmother's birth in Australia in "about 1870" and her father's birth in Ireland in "1859".
Thanks so much Paddy for having a look around for me i really do appreciate it.  

The mcinerney family is my mums mum side and is huge, but i will look into that date issue thabks for spotting that.

I will definately do what you suggested thankyou again.

Kindest regards Judy

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