Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Damien Shiels: The Forgotten Irish:
22 September 2016Revealing the Personal Stories of 19th Century Irish Emigrants through American Civil War Pension Files Outline During the American Civil War of 1861-65 some 180,000 Irish emigrants served in the Union military. Many never returned to their families. In the years that followed, their dependents—wives, children and ageing parents—claimed state...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Eleanor Fitzsimons – Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women in His Life
22 September 2016Wilde's Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women in His Life Outline Oscar Wilde's life is characterised almost exclusively in terms of his relationships with men. The intention of my talk is to reframe his life in the context of the women who influenced, inspired and collaborated...
Behind the scenes in the National Library’s Genealogy Room: September
22 September 2016Late in August two young Toronto women wearing the distinctive hijab scarf dropped into the Genealogy Room to ask for help with family history. Rizvana Kezi and Zainab Choudery have no Irish ancestry: Risvana’s family originated in the Indian sub-continent; Zainab’s in Pakistan; both families relocated in the 1970s-80s in...
News Digest: Sept 2016
22 September 2016This week’s News Digest Where are all the Irish Americans going? Census shows population in decline http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/where-are-all-the-irish-americans-going-census-shows-population-in-decline “Supported by her exiled children in America”: John Devoy and Irish America in 1916 http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/supported-by-her-exiled-children-in-america-john-devoy-and-irish-america-in-1916 How to research your Irish genealogy using the Library of Congress http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/how-to-research-your-irish-genealogy-using-the-library-of-congress 8 Terms...
Board for Certification of Genealogists
21 September 2016Board for Certification of Genealogists Top genealogists Pamela Boyer Sayre, Elizabeth Shown Mills, Ann Staley, Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, David McDonald, and Judy Russell will present six one-hour lectures held at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City Friday, 7 October 2016 between 9 AM and 5 PM mountain U.S....
FREE Family History Day: Louth County Library Dundalk
13 September 2016What were your family doing in 1916 ? To mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, family history experts from Findmypast and Irish Family History Centre are touring Ireland to help you trace your ancestors for FREE! Our Next Location is Louth County Library Dundalk Saturday the 17th of September 11am –...
The Calendar of Ancients Records of Dublin
09 September 2016On the open shelves in the National Library reading room there are a set of nineteen volumes that I have often looked at, fascinated by the details, but always frustrated that there was no index. The books that I am referring to are The Calendar of Ancients Records of Dublin...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland 2016: Liam Breen – A history of Deaf Culture in Ireland
07 September 2016Outline: The education of the Deaf has been important to the development of the Deaf community, which traces back to several centuries. In 1816, Dr Charles Orpen opened a school the Claremont Institute for Deaf and Dumb in Glasnevin, Dublin. The educaiton of Protestant and Catholic children together, prompted...
Summer Talks in the National Library of Ireland, 2016. Dr. Paul MacCotter – Territory, maps & genealogy
07 September 2016Outline: One of the most difficult things in Irish genealogical research is to identify a place of origin or residence. In Irish history our boundaries, territories, and loyalties have changed over time. The records that were made at any moment in time will be archived according to old territorial names...
Vote for your Rockstar Genealogists 2016
06 September 2016Time to Vote for your Favorite Rockstar genealogists! The Irish Family History Centre is run by Husband and Wife duo Brian Donovan and Fiona Fitzsimons and of course without sounding biased we think they should win the title this year! We are asking all our follower to take two minutes of...
Discover your Family History for free at Ulster Museum
05 September 2016What were your family doing in 1916 ? To mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, family history experts from Findmypast and Irish Family History Centre are touring Ireland to help you trace your ancestors for FREE! Our next Location will be in Ulster Museum on Saturday the 10th of September...
The importance of cross-checking your information
26 August 2016It is so important to cross check our information at all times, to use every available source in our quest to learn more about our ancestors. A recent search for a marriage of Anne to Edward prior to 1917 proved, frustratingly, negative. Anne gave birth to a son, Patrick, in 1917...
