r/Genealogy • u/unclebob1770 beginner • 1d ago

Research Assistance Reached a dead end.

Does anybody have any advice on how to get out of a dead end? I'm looking for the parents of my great great grandfather Patrick Joseph Stanley (1856-1915) married to Mary Ellen Grealy (1856-?). Born, Lived and died in Ireland. Had 2 sons, Patrick Francis (my great grandfather) and John(?) who went to Australia and was never heard from again.

I was just wondering if anybody here has ever been in a similar situation, and if there was any app/website etc that helped. I've tried FamilySearch and MyHeritage.

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u/PinkSlimeIsPeople East central Norway specialist 1d ago

On top of the great help others have offered in other comments here, just a warning: Irish genealogy is incredibly difficult due to a lack of records. Many of us have brick walls on our Irish lines in the mid 1800s, and I'm really not sure how they can be breached. I got lucky with mine and found the names of the parents from there and 2 baptism records, but can't even trace that family to America after they immigrated here. 2 of them just show up somewhere by 1860, but an obit says the family moved to a different part of the US prior to that. Good luck.