Sale! FamilyTree DNA Kits
11 May 2026
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In time for US Mother’s Day, FTDNA are having a sale for mtDNA and atDNA kits. See: DNA Testing for Ancestry & Genealogy – FamilyTreeDNA
Irish Family History Society
Connecting People With Their Irish Roots
Don’t Forget: IGRS AGM Coming Up
AGM Saturday 16th May 2026
This is a Zoom event for which you must book your place. It will be followed by the online lecture:
“Pre-1800 Sources for Irish Genealogical Research” by Valerie Adams, Librarian / Archivist, Presbyterian
Historical Society of Ireland.
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Sale! FamilyTree DNA Kits
In time for US Mother’s Day, FTDNA are having a sale for mtDNA and atDNA kits. See: DNA Testing for Ancestry & Genealogy – FamilyTreeDNA
MelHowes
11 May 2026
Lifford Old Courthouse is now home to Donegal Ancestry CLG
In July 2024, due to the upcoming retirement of Joan Patton, the manager of Donegal Ancestry, the board of Donegal Ancestry agreed to reach out
MelHowes
08 May 2026
‘From The Ashes’: The 1922 Irish Public Record Office Fire with David Ryan
The destruction of the Public Records Office in June 1922 at the outset of the Irish Civil War has cast a long shadow over Irish
MelHowes
05 May 2026
The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project
This project, conducted by UCC and funded under the Government of Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries Programme 2023, is the first systematic attempt to investigate the number of
MelHowes
02 May 2026