Thank You for Signing Up!
16 March 2018Thank you to everyone who signed up to our newsletter this year. We had a great time speaking with everyone and were simply run off our feet for the whole show! We’ve never been happier to be so tired! We’ve selected our competition winners and will be in touch...
Roostech 2018, Salt Lake City
16 March 2018Rootstech is unlike any other family history show anywhere in the world. For starters it’s a lot bigger. The official figures released after the event show a whopping 17,210 people registered, and a further 26,000 people came for the Family Discovery Day on Saturday. That’s more than 43,000 people attending...
New Issue of Irish Lives Remembered Released!
16 March 2018The latest issue of the Irish Lives Remembered magazine is now available! Accounding to the editor: The thematic section for this issue is “music”. There are five substantial articles here, all written by experts in their fields: we: have Sinéad McCoole, Jarlath MacNamara, Fiona Fitzsimons, Stephen Callaghan, and Maureen Wlodarczyk....
Online Consultations Launching on the IFHC Website This Month
16 March 2018We’re delighted to announce that we will be rolling out Online Consultations through our website this month. Due to the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve had for our private consultations, given at the Irish Family History Centre, we thought it would be only be fair to provide a similar offering online...
Get Context from Your Timelines!
15 March 2018There is always a great sense of achievement when we can put beginning and end dates for our ancestors. That moment when you can say, for example, Mary NoName (1882-1975). With a firm timeline of our ancestors’ lives, we are in a better position to determine what record sets will...
Behind the scenes: Charlemont Terrace
15 March 2018When the descendants of Henry Robinson, of Clontarf visited the Irish Family History Centre, they had already identified him, in the 1911 Irish census, with his wife Elizabeth, their three children no longer living with them. However they were unable to find the address, which no longer exists, when...
Ar labhair siad Gaeilge?
22 February 2018I have written before about the online 1901 and 1911 Censuses, mostly because it’s a source I’m very familiar with, having spent 9 months correcting errors in transcriptions. But it is a topic worth revisiting because it is a record set that still regularly presents obstacles when dealing with research...
Behind the Scenes: The Genealogist, the Husband, his Wife, and her Passion
22 February 2018We all know, and many of us try and apply, that old aphorism ‘Patience is a Virtue’. At the Irish Family History Centre (IFHC) in Dublin we genealogists get to see that played out in many ways with certain clients and their families. A not uncommon scenario is that one...
DNA Got Me Talking to a Descendent of my Carrawaystick Great-Great Granduncle
22 February 2018A few years back I took an autosomal DNA test both with Ancestry and with Family Tree DNA. An autosomal DNA test will test both your maternal and paternal ancestral lines back to 5, maybe 6, generations. You inherit about 50% of this type of DNA from your mom and...
News Digest: February 2018
22 February 2018What will Project Ireland 2040 mean for culture and heritage? Opinion: the plan intends €1.4 billion to be spent enhancing amenities and heritage, so does this show a seriousness about protecting our cultural institutions and historic buildings? https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0221/942319-what-will-project-ireland-2040-mean-for-culture-and-heritage/ Petition to Release the 1926 Irish Census. Following the publication of...
On the road to Rootstech 2018
22 February 2018We are all excited to be getting ready and hitting the road for Rootstech 2018! We’re hoping to see lots of you there – come and chat to us on stand 439/538. You can give our Surname Screen a go or talk to us about our plans for 2018...
Irish Workhouse Records
09 February 2018The Dublin Workhouse Admission and Discharge registers dating from 1840 and running up to 1919 are held in the National Archives and have been digitised and indexed and can be accessed on findmypast.ie. These registers can be very useful, albeit sobering, records to consult. We have recently completed two reports...
