Genealogy Graduation Ceremony
05 May 2017On Tuesday 25th April EPIC at CHQ hosted a graduation ceremony for the classes that completed Fingal County Libraries, Beginners’ Class in Irish Genealogy / Family History. The classes were held October 2016 to April 2017, and taught by Fiona Fitzsimons of the Irish Family History Centre. The students that...
National Library of Ireland Genealogy Service 2017
04 May 2017Eneclann and Ancestor Network have been awarded the tender to support the genealogy advisory service with the National Library of Ireland in 2017. This is the 6th year these leading Irish genealogy firms are partnering with the NLI to provide this unique genealogy service. Visiting researchers to the NLI can...
Enda Kenny is presented with his Family History
04 May 2017On Friday 28th April Fiona Fitzsimons presented An Taoiseach Enda Kenny with his family history. Enda Kenny is presented with his Family History by Fiona Fitzsimons accompanied by Nevill Isdell The Taoiseach has drawn inspiration from his family history in speeches, and has used the metaphor of his grandfather, James McGinley,...
Two Personal Family Pet Names Cracked
04 May 2017It may seem obvious, but in order to trace your family history you must have an idea of a relative’s first name. However, there are occasions when people visiting the Irish Family History Centre (Dublin) only have a pet name for their relative – a name that only the family...
The Irish Language and Irish Censuses
04 May 2017The 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses include a question about the ability of respondents in a household to speak the Irish language, an Ghaeilge. The Irish language had declined dramatically over the previous 300 years as a result of English rule. The Great Famine of the 1840s was another nail...
Expert Workshops at the Royal Irish Academy of Ireland 2017: Monsignor Ciaran O’ Carroll, Rector of the Irish College in Rome
21 April 2017In March 2017 we welcomed Monsignor Ciaran O’ Carroll, Rector of the Irish College in Rome to the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St. The Rector discusses the rare book and manuscript collections in the Irish College. Listen to the podcast above.
News Digest: April 2017
21 April 2017Joe Biden shares why coming home to Ireland meant so much to him https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/joe-biden-shares-why-coming-home-to-ireland-meant-so-much-to-him Irish Family History Research Experts Fiona Fitzsimons and Helen Moss were delighted to have been chosen to research Vice President Joe Biden’s Irish Family History in time for his trip over to Ireland to visit with his family’s ancestral home. Read the full...
Mike Murphy Explores His Family History
20 April 2017Irish Family History Centre researcher, Carmel Gilbride recently worked on the family history of one of Ireland’s best loved radio and TV presenters, Mike Murphy. Mike wanted to explore his family history, and approached us, via the Irish Family History Centre, to research both lines of his family. Mike arrived...
Behind the scenes at The IFHC: A Tale of Eviction
20 April 2017Confirming a Family Tale of Eviction There are numerous tales of evictions in Ireland during the nineteenth century. Some families were evicted for not paying their dues, while others were removed to make way for the landlord’s own family. One Australian family, whose ancestors were Minogues from Ballyshrule (County Galway)...
You say it best, when you say nothing at all
19 April 2017“You say it best, when you say nothing at all…” So the song goes and, along with Rocky Racoon, it’s one of the songs that springs to mind when I think of genealogical records. One of the things that looking at vast numbers of a given record set teaches you,...
Expert Workshops at the Royal Irish Academy of Ireland 2017, Finding the women ignored by wider historiography.
19 April 2017More than just a name: Searching Beyond the Family Tree’ Finding the women ignored by wider historiography. You’ve unearthed your family tree. You know who married whom, where they lived, perhaps how they died. But what do you know about the ‘texture’ of their lives? One place to start is...
The Problem With a Name
19 April 2017When you start your genealogy journey you are warned about name variations. But it is only when you start researching that you realise how complex it can get. A cousin of mine in New York asked me to trace his grandmother in Ireland. He knew her name was Bridget, but...
