PRELUDE TO IRISH GENEALOGICAL HISTORY

25000 BC Homo Sapiens - New Age Man began their migration southwards with some passing through Siberia and crossing over the land bridge of the Bering Straight into North America. Remains of these original Humans - New Age Man have also been found at Lake Mungo in Australia were they where physically similar to the Australian Aborigines of today.

10000 BC - 8000 BC the climate changed dramatically after the 4th Glaciation Period as the Ice Sheets began to melt and the Ocean began to rise towards its present level. For the next 5000 years Humans - New Age Man was to suddenly become more dominant, developing new techniques for hunting and gathering the necessities of life. This simple change was to mean that within 3000 years the first Human civilizations of New Age Man would also begin to evolve.

8000 BC on, the change from hunter gathers to herders & farmers was to allow the New Age Humans to become pre - eminent over the other species as they became more and more involved in Agriculture and this would lead to the creation of established population growth within a confined area. The first Wild Wheat was grown and harvested in the region that is now Turkey and the domestication of Cattle during this period was to be another step forward as it would furnish these new combined populations with meat, milk and hides. It also presented the opportunity of having access to beasts of burden and with the invention of the wheel later on by the Sumerians and the introduction of wagons was to provide over - land transport and migration. They would then have the resources to become more mobile and migrate to new lands much further away and at a much faster pace. Another great advance would be the introduction of the plow by the evolving Celtic Tribes, which would improve all agricultural practices further and greatly expand population growth even more.

6000 BC New Stone Age: Pottery making by this period in time had become a regular occurrence and the city of Jericho had long before became the first established village settlement. Agriculture and community villages in the Near East where by now also moving further down onto the fertile plains. In Northern Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent there was concentrated expansion through Northern Syria to the Mediterranean Sea as New Age Man was by now well and truly on the move. The Nile, Euphrates, and the Tigris River Valleys had been discovered and were being utilized agriculturally and this would eventually lead to individual countries being created such as Sumeria in 4,000 BC, Egypt in 3200 BC and Babylonia in 2100 BC. With their improved living conditions and stable structures now in place New Age Man began to form into their own individual tribes or communities to create the means for further protection and survival. The New Age Humans among them who where to become the Celtic Irish where at this time to begin their own individual evolvement as a distinct separate race in their own right within the next Millennia.

The Celts distinct evolvement would also include something that they where to specialize in, keeping a chronicle of their male line ancestry, which would be shared with another evolving individual race of New Age Man, to be known as the Hebrews. This early ancestry would be set down in what is now defined by Christians as the Old Testament, which was originally the Hebrews singular attempt to record their own personal male lineage and beginning associated with their early history. This was then carried forward by their evolving descendants, the Israelites, and then by their eventual descendants, the Jews of Judah. The immediate direct Hebrew ancestor of the Israelites who was to stand out notably for them was to be Abraham, a Prince of Ur, who as an individual was to accomplish a dramatic change in future Human perspective like no other had done during his lifetime. He alone was the kernel that began to re - alter the mindset of the whole World at that time and in the future due to his own personal commitment that went against the then current Sumerian thinking. He was definite that there was "Only One True God and that there was "Life After Death?"

5199 BC was to see the emergence of the original recorded individual ancestor of not only Abraham but also that of the Celtic Irish race.

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