About

Lifetimes Research was founded by Hilary O’Connor, a qualified genealogist and family historian. Following a successful marketing career in consumer planning & research she decided to pursue her life-long passion for family history professionally. She completed a three year Certificate of Family History and Genealogy in UCD and also holds an MA in History of family from University of Limerick graduating with a first class honors in both. 

She is a member of the Accredited Genealogists of Ireland (AGI) and is committed to continually updating her professional education to ensure she can provide the very best and most insightful service for her clients. The company is based in Dublin and is a short drive to the city center where the fascinating archives, libraries and repositories such as the National Archives of Ireland, The National Library of Ireland, The Registry of Deeds and the General Register Office (GRO), etc. are located. When you commission Lifetimes Research to undertake research on your behalf, you will be safe in the knowledge that it will be conducted in accordance with our strict code of professional practice. Any information supplied to, and uncovered by us, will be dealt with in the strictest confidence. No report or part thereof will be copied, replicated or circulated to anyone without the explicit consent of the commissioning client.

Hilary is passionate about not just supplying facts, dates and other personal information for her clients, she strives to bring those people who have gone before us to life and provide an understanding of what their lives would have been like, socially and culturally at any given time in Ireland’s history.

Professional affiliations:

Accredited Genealogists of Ireland       

Irish Genealogical Research Society

Society of Genealogists