News Digest: May 31 2017
31 May 2017This weeks news digest FindmyPast – latest additions http://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2017/05/findmypast-latest-additions.html 30 Tips for Using Family Photos for Genealogy https://www.findmypast.ie/blog/help/30-tips-for-analysing-old-photos-genealogy-deciphering-clues
Digital Marketing Executive Required
31 May 2017Job Title: Digital Marketing Executive The following position has been created to find a candidate with strong digital marketing skills to help create awareness of the Irish Family History Centre brand. This will require the candidate using their marketing skills to increase footfall to the brand’s visitor centre, as well...
Actor John Cusack, The Afternoon Show, and the Irish Family History Centre
31 May 2017The actor John Cusack was invited to visit Belfast (Northern Ireland) in early April 2017 to participate in the Belfast Film Festival. Wanting a good reason to interview the actor, Ireland’s national radio and television broadcaster Raidió Teilefis Éireann (RTÉ) encouraged their flagship daily afternoon chat and variety show, called,...
Sponsor A Track with Saint Patricks Cathedral
31 May 2017
The Afternoon Show with Actor John Cusack
31 May 2017The actor John Cusack was invited to visit Belfast (Northern Ireland) in early April 2017 to participate in the Belfast Film Festival. Wanting a good reason to interview the actor, Ireland’s national radio and television broadcaster Raidió Teilefis Éireann (RTÉ) encouraged their flagship daily afternoon chat and variety show, called,...
Smiths, Marrying Smiths …. Marrying Even More Smiths
19 May 2017By Irish Family History Centre Expert Patrick Roycroft When doing Irish genealogy, and especially when dealing with families in rural communities, one can encounter a bride and groom marrying, each of whom have exactly the same surname. There can be all kinds of reasons for this, of course, and it...
Is the evidence we find in written records always correct ?
18 May 2017The official recording of events in our ancestors’ lives are a key block in genealogy. We mine these records for everything they can tell us about our ancestors and indeed bemoan the lack of detail Irish records have when compared to other jurisdictions. We assume, sometimes wrongly, that the information...
News Digest: May 2017
18 May 2017Rescue Old Data before it’s too late! To model the future, we need to be able to examine the past. Few forms of ‘heritage data’ — whether stored on glass plates, paper, old tapes or floppy disks — are easily available for today’s research, so the information on them is...
Irish Lives Remembered Summer Edition Teaser
18 May 2017In the next edition of Irish Lives Remembered, Fiona Fitzsimons talks to Liz Rushen, Australian social and cultural historian, about her research on Irish women immigrants to Australia before the Famine. Dr. Rushen talks about sources, communicating research through story-telling, and why social history is of greater explanatory importance. ...
Dr. Maurice Gleeson talks about teaching the Genetic Genealogy track, at this year’s British Institute, in Salt Lake City, September 2017.
18 May 2017Dr. Maurice Gleeson talks about teaching the Genetic Genealogy track, at this year’s British Institute, in Salt Lake City, September 2017 in an interview with Fiona Fitzsimons. Read the full interview here. Fiona: Maurice, this coming September at the British Institute, you will teach the track on genetic genealogy. Can...
Irish Presbyterian Emigrants: Ancestry back to the 1650s
17 May 2017If you can trace your Irish ancestry back to the late 18th Century you are doing well. But one visitor to the IFHC traced theirs back to the mid-17th Century. How? Through the Presbyterian emigrant records. Presbyterians started migrating to America from Northern Ireland and Scotland in 1650. The reason...
The Journals of the Association for the Preservation of the ‘Memorials of the Dead
05 May 2017The Journals of the Association for the Preservation of the ‘Memorials of the Dead in Ireland have recently been digitised by the IFHC. I have always regarded these journals as treasured gems and perhaps mistakenly as one of those ‘last resort’ items. The Association of The Memorials of the Dead...
