Behind the scenes at The IFHC: Trudeau’s Visit
11 August 2017In July 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a visit to EPIC (the Irish Emigration Museum) and to the Irish Family History Centre, both in the CHQ Building in Dublin. The research team of the Irish Family History Centre, headed by the talented and tenacious Fiona Fitzsimons, had, upon learning...
Genealogy Course at Trinity College Dublin
11 August 2017Fiona Fitzsimons of Eneclann (Irish Family History Centre) will deliver a class in Genealogy over 16 weeks commencing in October 2017 and running until April 2018. Suitable for Beginners to Intermediate level. The course will be on Tuesdays 6:00pm to 7:00pm Enrolment begins 21st August. For frurther information and enrolment details...
2017 APG Professional Management Conference
28 July 201729 September through 1 October 2017 DoubleTree Crystal City Hotel Arlington, Virginia Register today for the Association of Professional Genealogist’s Professional Management Conference offering three full days of presentations designed specifically for genealogical professionals. APG members who can’t make the conference in person may register for the Virtual PMC (12...
My Busman’s Holiday: A Genealogists’ Genealogical Holiday to New York
28 July 2017We get many people from overseas visiting the Irish Family History Centre (CHQ Building, Dublin). Some will arrive with information to undertake genealogy research and some have no plans to do research but decide to use our facilities while they are in Ireland. In April 2017, I visited the...
Behind the scenes at The IFHC: ¿hablas español?
28 July 2017I Speak no Spanish, They Spoke no English. Get the Translator! Very many people around the world have some Irish ancestry. This is due to what has become known as the Irish diaspora – the spreading of Irish people to countries around the world due to waves of either voluntary...
The Odd Perk of Being a Genealogist at the Irish Family History Centre
14 July 2017Genealogists are in privileged positions. To some extent, we are like doctors: people tend to put their trust in us with otherwise quite personal and private information. And when a genealogist reveals something new to a client about their family, because it is personal, the reaction can be quite emotional...
Behind the scenes at The IFHC: Tracing an Orange Order Ancestor
14 July 2017Tracing an Orange Order Ancestor In June 2017, I had the pleasure of helping a lady from Canada who visited the Irish Family History Centre (CHQ Building, Dublin, Ireland) looking for information on her Orange Order ancestors. Her ancestors belonged to the Orange Order in Canada and she wondered how...
Personal objects – historical artefacts
14 July 2017Earlier this year, our Research Director, Fiona Fitzsimons, published the following article for Ireland Reaching Out. Among many other examples, she describes the value of artefacts from Dunkirk, specifically the evacuation, a topic very much in the news given the recent release of the new blockbuster film of the same...
The Irish Family History Centre welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
04 July 2017Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and family arriving in Ireland The Irish Family History Centre team of experts led by Fiona Fitzsimons traced the family of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau back ten generations to 17th century Ireland. Through his mother, Margaret Sinclair, he is a direct descendant of the Bernard family...
Free concert at St. Patrick’s Cathedral 4th July
30 June 2017This is a special one off organ recital at 6.15pm on Tuesday, 4th July. While its a ‘free’ concert with no admission charge, it is also a fundraiser for the Choir school’s latest recording initiative. Organists Martina Smyth and Stuart Nicholson perform Stars Wars, Harry Potter, Back to the Future, Independence...
News Digest: Jun 30 2017
30 June 2017Irish Famine film narrated by Gabriel Byrne wins regional Emmy in the U.S. Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora – the film looks at the history of the Famine in part through the eyes of the descendants of those who survived it, and those who fled to Canada and...
Behind the scenes at The IFHC: Barbados Born with Irish Connection
30 June 2017Barbados Born with Irish Ancestry in Her DNA – But Who is the Irish Connection? A wonderfully friendly lady from Barbados came in to the Irish Family History Centre (IFHC) in late April 2017 with a puzzle. She had taken an autosomal DNA test (which gives a rough estimate of...
