Pitter Patter & Painting Christmas Memories
13 December 2019This Christmas season I have had the joy of running festive art workshops in CHQ Dublin with lots of families with young children. Mums and dads, grannies and grandads, and aunts and uncles have come along with little ones as young as a few weeks old, right up to creative...
First Quarter of Talks for 2020
13 December 2019If tracing your family tree or getting stuck into history is your New Year’s Resolution, you’ve come to the right place! We already have some great talks lined up for the first quarter of 2020. Sunday, 26th January 2020 – 2:30pm ‘Genealogy Workshop: Connecting to Explore Your Irish Roots’ For...
Happy Christmas from the Irish Family History Centre
13 December 2019And so this is Christmas and we hope you have fun! As 2019 draws to a close we have time to reflect on another year in which we had the pleasure of meeting people from all areas of the globe. On a daily basis we never know who...
Baptismal Records
22 November 2019More often than not, the sponsors or godparents that appear in Catholic baptismal registers are relatives of the parents of the baptised child. Knowing that the sponsor is a relation can add to our knowledge of the family tree – giving us useful potential additions. Sometimes, however, the sponsors are not related; but...
A Note of Thanks: 1-Day Intro Course at Galway City Museum
22 November 2019We would like to extend our thanks to Galway City Museum, who hosted us on November 9th for a one-day Introduction to Genealogy Course, delivered by genealogist and historian Declan Brady. We would also like to thank our course participants who took part in our four sessions, which included:...
Made Our Way Home (Stories from the Centre)
22 November 2019We love what we do at the Irish Family History Centre; it always leaves a smile on our faces when we watch customers walking away with a big grin and a new family line to unravel. Often that is the end of it, but now and again we’re lucky to...
New Educational Partners for IFHC
21 November 2019This year we were thrilled to work with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, SIPTU and Youth Connect on a schools’ module entitled ‘Labour, Gender and class in the Struggle for Irish Independence 1917-1923’. ‘This resource aims to promote open discussion and debate among students about how people lived...
Tales from Transition Year: My Week’s Work Experience at the IFHC
21 November 2019My Name is Eva, I am fifteen years old and in Transition Year. I have been researching my own family history since the age of 12, so I decided to apply to the Irish Family History Centre and their partner company Eneclann for a one week Transition Year Work Experience...
Tips for searching transcribed records
04 October 2019The digitisation and transcription of records has undoubtedly made family history research easier and accessible to more people than ever before. However, the transcription of digitised records remains an imperfect system, with the many millions of errors in transcribed records still presenting genealogists, be they amateur or professional, with challenges when...
Irish museum is a finalist to be World’s Leading Tourist Attraction for 2019
04 October 2019EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in contention to be named the World’s Leading Tourist Attraction at prestigious World Travel Awards against The Great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, Table Mountain and Machu Picchu. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum has been announced as a finalist for the title of World’s Leading...
Milwaukee Irish Fest
26 September 2019Milwaukee Irish Fest is the world’s largest celebration of Irish music and culture. It is held annually on the third weekend in August on the shores of Lake Michigan at the Henry W Maier Festival Park. The festival is presented by CelticMKE, a year-round organization dedicated to igniting a love of Irish...
A Familiar Tune: How music might help you discover your ancestors
29 August 2019We have a rich musical heritage in Ireland; music and song travelled easily with the Irish diaspora and were surely a source of solace and a mainstay of any social event. Recently, we have undertaken research on an 18th century musical instrument maker, and I have come across a number of...
