The Rogers Family of Donegal (James & Grace)

tripstakepeople:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

Unfortunately, finding church records for Co. Donegal back to the early part of the 19th century is basically impossible and civil registration did not begin until 1864. Rogers was a common surname in Co. Donegal based on the 1857 Griffiths Valuation data. The parish with the most Rogers was in Templecrone located in the northwest coast of Donegal. However, the surname was found in many other parishes so you can't be sure on the location.

I think your first step is to test your DNA and when get your matches, you may find someone who has more info on the Rogers line and where they originated. The match  person could be in Australia, Canada, USA or even Ireland.

You can also add the emigration story of James Rogers' and his family to our XO Chronicles site and possibly someone will see a connection. https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-dat…

Roger McDonnell

Roger - many thanks for the reply. I have had my DNA tested, and unfortunetly no Rogers family yet. I've found a few Irish matches but nothing from this line, as far as I can tell. I went ahead and added James to XO Chronicles, so hopefully that'll help.

Not sure what company you tested with but here are two suggestions to expand your matching pool. There is a volunteer run site called Gedmatch www.gedmatch.com  where you can load your raw DNA data and see what matches you get with people who tested with other companies and also loaded their data to Gedmatch. Second, MyHeritage is allowing people to load their raw DNA data to their data base for free thru December 16th.