[quote=@Lady Amalthea]
[@TheIrishJJ] I can understand why it would seem odd. For us, the U.S. is such a heavily built immigrant country, the majority of us are from immigrants at one point or another. Very few actually have any Native American blood. And we are still such a young nation compared to others. So our families history includes so many nations we weren't personally born in. We love the history and the ties. With Irish, they are one of the easiest to track further back thanks to the Catholic Church. Birth and baptism records can easily be tracked back with many families hundreds of years (For someone like me who is a genealogy junkie - that is a huge pull.) 

	We're still teenagers when it comes to most nations, still finding our identity and with all teens we pull from all things to find out what works best for us personally until we can find our own.
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That's actually quite ironic. I love genealogy too, but lots of Irish information is missing (my father tells me that this is because of fires in risings etc, perhaps at the GPO) which means that all of my family tree on my father's side is what him and his mum know. Unfortunately I no longer have an Ancestry membership which means I can't do anything more with my mother's side.