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15 Jul 2025
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The North of Ireland Family History Society’s DNA Summer School is back for the sixth year! And it’s better than ever. This year’s theme is
Irish Family History Society
Connecting People With Their Irish Roots
Our Latest Publication
IFHS Journal 2024
Home Page
CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH THEIR IRISH ROOTS
Really Useful Family History Show August 2025
Visit the Really Useful Family History Show in PRONI on the 23rd August 2025.
Some Recent Activities
In July 2025 we attended the Flavours of Fingal festival in Newbridge Estate, county Dublin.
Listen to Mel and Louise being interviewed at Flavours of Fingal by Carmelle Keane of 92.5 Phoenix FM community radio station.
Why not join us?
The Irish Family History Society (IFHS) is a voluntary non-profit making organisation, established in 1984. We are based in Ireland, but open to anyone who is interested in looking to trace their Irish roots, wherever in the world they are based.
We organise a range of activities across the year, so our members feel part of a community, including:
- Talks delivered over Zoom by local experts
- Outings to archives and places of interest to family historians
- Meet-Ups – community-based informal Zoom sessions to chat about our research and ask questions of society experts
- Conference Day in November
We deliver unique content via email in the form of periodic News Sheets and publish the Irish Family History Journal annually.
The News and Events sections of this site are maintained daily.
The Members’ Area of the site includes additional content such as lecture handouts, event reports, newsletters from associated societies, along with training courses and documentation to help you progress your own Irish family history research.
For only €25 you can become a member and get access to our Lectures, Outings, Lecture Handouts, News Sheets, Journals archive as well as useful information and links. And you can avail of a 25% discount on an Irish Newspaper Archives subscription, normally €149 per year.
Connect with your irish roots
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More Recent Events
In 2024, the Irish Family History Society celebrated its 40th Anniversary. On Sunday 23rd November we held our anniversary conference in the Croke Park Hotel in Dublin. Joan Sharkey, MAGI and longtime society member, provided the keynote speech detailing her own genealogical journey alongside that of the society’s.
A number of people in our audience also spoke about their experience in the society:
It is with sadness that we learned of the passing of long standing member Frank Pelly, pictured above speaking at our conference last year. Frank was a draughtsman with Commissioners of Irish Lights and later became the Consultant Curator of their Bailey lighthouse museum near Dublin. Frank was committed to his work in genealogy and local history and his historical knowledge and efforts to catalogue the Irish Lights archive was significant.
Our thoughts are with Frank’s family and friends.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.