News Digest: Oct 2016
27 October 2016Society of Genealogists events in November Else Churchill speaking on “20th Century Perspectives – Sources and Techniques for Family Historians” – on Weds 30 Nov. Wednesday, 30 November 14:00 – 20th Century Perspectives – Sources and Techniques for Family Historians It feels like it should be easier to find ancestors living...
Back to Our Past 2016 was a hit!
26 October 2016The Irish Family History Centre stand at Back to Our Past 2016 This year’s Back To Our Past was another well attended event with lots of you arriving with the family history bug and ready to dive into your roots. We met so many new people just connecting with...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Dan Bradley: Ancient DNA and Irish Origins
25 October 2016Title: Ancient DNA and Irish Origins Instead of extrapolating the past from modern genetic variation, it is now possible to directly analyse whole genomes from the past using ancient DNA analysis of archaeological bones. Work on ancient Irish genomes in Trinity College is giving new information on from where...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Joe Buggy: Ten free websites for U.S. genealogy research.
25 October 2016Title: Ten free websites for U.S. genealogy research. Every genealogist loves free access to records and genealogy information. Most people begin with Familysearch and Cyndi’s List when doing research in the Unites States. But where can you turn to after using those sites? This talk outlines ten free websites that professional...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016:Clodagh Tait: ‘The simple annals of my Parish poor’: stories from the parish registers
06 October 2016The Reverend George Crabbe, a Church of England clergyman, published his poem The Parish Register in 1807. For him, his registers were ‘The simple annals of my Parish poor’, and he reflected on the human stories behind his entries within them, concluding rather gloomily that for his parishioners ‘Their joys...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Aoife O’Connor: Seen? Heard? Records of Children in Nineteenth Century Ireland
06 October 2016In this talk Aoife encourages you to search for your ancestor as a child, to help break down a brick wall, and to add valuable contextual information to your ancestor’s life. Children are found in not only in census and BMD records, they are also found scattered throughout military records,...
Catholic Convert and Qualification Rolls
04 October 2016One of the most interesting aspects of studying family history is the ability to recover the stories of individuals, families and even communities. As more records collections are published online, I often revisit old case-studies, to see if it’s possible to recover gaps in the narrative. Recently the Catholic Convert...
New Digest
04 October 2016WWI Ireland: Public Tour WWI Ireland: Exploring the Irish Experience Exhibition: Exhibition tour http://www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx?article=4cc981e0-523b-4ffe-8ceb-86201703bbec Using the National Library: research workshop http://www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx?page=2&article=85528e34-c8d6-4382-a7f7-d2b6ecd9c103 Public Lecture: Seamus Heaney: The Place of Writing http://www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx?article=ef410618-0b81-4e9f-a018-c49f17191035 Introduction to Genealogy 8-week course with Sean Murphy http://www.nli.ie/en/genealogy_events.aspx The top 300 Irish family names explained https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/ancestry/top-300-irish-surnames-explained One US woman’s...
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral AFTER DARK
04 October 2016Click HERE to pre book tickets
The Archaeology of a Decade of War 2016 Lecture Series
04 October 2016The Archaeology of a Decade of War 2016 Lecture Series The Archaeological Landscape of the War of Independence & the Civil War by Mr Damian Shiels 1pm on Thursday 6 October 2016 at the National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 This talk will examine the wealth of archaeological...
Expert Workshop in the National Library October
04 October 2016In October 2016 our Expert speaker is Brian Hollinshead Mapping townlands and other boundaries old and new. Date: October 15th Time: 2:00pm Venue: National Library of Ireland Synopsis Brian will describe the OpenStreetMap Resource with particular reference to the related task, now complete, of tracing by hand the 60,000+ Townlands,...
Summer Talks @NLIreland 2016
23 September 2016The Summer Talks series at the National Library of Ireland ran for seven consecutive weeks, from July 26 to September 8. At the start, we promised you in joyous Joycean terms, to deliver a glorious gallimaufry of guest speakers exploring aspects of Irish Family History. The speakers this summer included...
