Mel and Louise are attending the Family History Fair in Belfast Central Library with the IFHS stand. Drop by and say hello if you’re in the area!
As part of Heritage Week, we are running an Advice Clinic in Pearse Street Library, Dublin. Do drop by to say hello if you are in the area!
Speaker: Claire Bradley
Claire Bradley is a professional Irish genealogist working with both paper records and genetic genealogy. She holds a Certificate in Genealogy from University College Dublin and a Masters in History of the Family from the University of Limerick. Claire is passionate about teaching people how to research their own ancestry. She teaches a beginnersβ adult education course now running for 15 years covering all the Irish major sources in Dublin and regularly lectures both in person and online to a wide range of family history and historical societies in Ireland and countries with Irish diasporas. Her website is www.cbgenealogy.ie.
Attendance for members is free, just mail info@ifhs.ie to register, non-members can buy tickets in the Shop.
Speaker: Dr Caroline Adams
Topic: Palaeography
Dr. Caroline Adams is a freelance archivist, palaeographer and historian. Presently she teaches palaeography online, including Manuscript Mondays once a month with Mandy Geary. Until 2014 she was Senior Archivist at West Sussex Record Office, and after that ran her own research business, Key to the Past. She holds a professional archives diploma, and undergraduate and masters degrees in local and landscape history, and her PhD was on the progresses of Elizabeth I. Her current research is on Elizabethan Sussex.
This class will be a practical demonstration of palaeography utilising 16th century examples. It will be interactive and will be of great value to anyone researching in older documents trying to decipher the scripts.
Note that this class is scheduled for 90 minutes.
Attendance for members is free, just mail info@ifhs.ie to register, non-members can buy tickets in the Shop.
The IFHS will have a stand at The Family History Show in Kempton Park Racecourse, London. This is a chance to meet up with any members in the area and to attract new members to join us!
A tour of 14 Henrietta Street. at 10am, followed by a visit to the Registry of Deeds at 12.30pm.
Speaker: Anne Johnston, NIFHS
Topic: DNA Projects
There will be 2 sessions during the day to try and suit as many of of members as possible re time zones.
Session 1: 10am Dublin time
Session 2: 4pm Dublin time
The purpose of the meet ups is to discuss membersβ queries regarding their research so do please send in any queries in advance so we can prep some answers to help get the discussion started.
The theme of this year’s conference is Emigration. We will hosted at The Fumbally in Dublin. The day will include 4 or 5 talks plus lunch and will be available to attend both in person or via Zoom.
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