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Genealogy events & courses

  • 18-01-2016 11:25am
    #1
    pinkypinky
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    I've created and stickied this new thread to put up notices of upcoming genealogy events only.

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  • #2
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    The IGRS and the Cork Genealogical Society are holding a 1 day conference on 19th March in the Clayton Hotel, Silversprings, Cork.

    Further information and booking can be done through either society's website: IGRS or CGS

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  • #3
    VicWynne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭VicWynne


    Clare Roots Society is hosting a conference on the 23rd - 24th September in Treacys West County Hotel in Ennis.

    http://clareroots.org/index.php/7-newsscroll/88-world-genealogy-experts-confirmed-for-third-international-family-history-conference-in-clare-in-2016

    Bookings can be made on https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/diaspora-of-the-wild-atlantic-way-tickets-20755152219?aff=eac2


  • #4
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,263 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    The Genealogy Event sponsored by rootsireland among others is on in Fitzgerald's Woodlands House Hotel, Adare, Co. Limerick, September 2nd and 3rd, 2016.

    Programme here. (.pdf file)


  • #5
    cobham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭cobham


    Genealogical Society of Ireland

    Tues. April 12th 2015 8.00pm
    'Quaker Family Records' - Noel Jenkins - at DFEi, Cumberland St, Dun Laoghaire


  • #6
    shanew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS), open day, Dublin City Library, Pearse St. on Saturday the 21st May see : http://www.irishancestors.ie/?p=7393


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  • #7
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    IGRS summer outing: 20th August

    http://www.irishancestors.ie/?p=7437

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  • #8
    Waitsian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    * Taken from the www.irishgenealogynews.com website.


    The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has announced its summer programme of free Genealogy at Lunchtime lectures which runs from 26 July to 8 September. Each lecture starts at 1pm and is presented in the NLI's seminar room in Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

    Tuesday 26 July: Mná - 25 years of searching - lessons & leads, with Sinead McCool.

    Thursday 28 July: The lonely sea and sky - the rescue of 168 German sailors in December 1943 by the MV Kerlogue, a tiny ship from Wexford, with Dermot Bolger

    Tuesday 2 August: Territory, maps and genealogy, with Paul McCotter MAGI.

    Thursday 4 August: Explorations in Irish genealogy, with Fiona Fitzsimons

    Tuesday 9 August: History of Deaf Culture in Ireland, with Liam Breen / Cormac Leonard (interpreter)

    Thursday 11 August: "The selkie's skin": How Irish oral traditions preserve family and local history, with Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.

    Tuesday 15 August: Wilde's women: how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew, with Eleanor Fitzsimons

    Thursday 18 August: The Forgotten Irish: Revealing the voices of Irish 19th-century emigrants, with Damien Shiels.

    Tuesday 23 August: Irish American Identity - how do we sustain the people-to-people links between Ireland and the United States? with Kevin F. O'Malley,

    Thursday 25 August: Children's records in 19th-century Ireland, with Aoife O'Connor.

    Tuesday 30 August: Stories from the parish registers, with Clodagh Tait.

    Thursday 1 September Ogham Stones: Our earliest genealogical sources, with Nora White.

    Tuesday 6 September: Ten free websites for US genealogical research, with Joe Buggy.

    Thursday 8 September: Adventures in DNA: Who were the first Irish?, with Professor Dan Bradley.

    All are welcome to attend. There's no booking requirement, but arriving early is recommended to ensure you get a seat.


  • #9
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    NLI Events September
    .........:
    Every Wednesday, 2pm to 4.30pm from 5 October to 23 November: 'Introduction to genealogy / family history'. This eight week course with genealogist and lecturer Sean Murphy will offer participants an introduction to family history research, including research methods, record sources and repositories, and online resources
    Booking for this free course, which will be limited to 30 students, will open on 1 September: email Ciara Kerrigan at ckerrigan@nli.ie.


  • #10
    pinkypinky
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    Delighted to hear that Sean's class was fully booked, with a substantial waiting list too.

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  • #11
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Self-publicity: I teach a beginner's genealogy class twice a year at Malahide Community School. Starting 26th September for 10 weeks. Enrolment next Monday 19th Sept at the school or online. Full details here.

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  • #12
    pinkypinky
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    Ancestry has a free event coming up next Tuesday afternoon in Dublin. Details on their Facebook page.

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  • #13
    oceanclub
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭oceanclub


    Back to Our Past event on in the RDS, 21 to 23 October:

    http://backtoourpast.ie/

    Tickets €5 if you book in advance; anyone been to any of these before? Am wondering if it's of use to anyone who isn't an absolute beginner?

    P.


  • #14
    pinkypinky
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    Sometimes the talks are good, the DNA ones look good this year.

    I will be there on the IGRS stand - with my other hat on.

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  • #15
    KildareFan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Sometimes the talks are good, the DNA ones look good this year.

    I will be there on the IGRS stand - with my other hat on.

    What type of hat? Will I recognise you when I see you?


  • #16
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I actually own very many hats, so if the weather is suitable, a hat may be worn. More likely there will be a badge, and as a further hint, I will be the youngest person on the stand.

    Seriously though: boards genie meet-up?

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  • #17
    Hermy
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    Good idea Pinky!

    Will hat wearing be optional though?

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  • #18
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Optional but hoped for...

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  • #19
    KildareFan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    Great - how about wearing a little label with our boardsie names on it? We can wink significantly at each other.


  • #20
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    KildareFan wrote: »
    Great - how about wearing a little label with our boardsie names on it? We can wink significantly at each other.
    :eek: If I make it I for one am not going to wander around the RDS winking at strange men in Lillywhite headgear!


  • #21
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I know what Pedro looks like anyway!

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  • #22
    leck
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    oceanclub wrote: »
    Back to Our Past event on in the RDS, 21 to 23 October:

    http://backtoourpast.ie/

    Tickets €5 if you book in advance; anyone been to any of these before? Am wondering if it's of use to anyone who isn't an absolute beginner?

    P.
    I went last year. I only went to a couple of the lectures, and found them very good, but there was high level of background noise that I found very distracting. The lectures are put online after the event.

    Timetable for this year's DNA lectures - http://ggi2013.blogspot.ie/2016/10/revised-timings-for-dna-lectures.html

    FREE TICKETS available from Senior Times gets you into both 50 Plus Expo and Back To Our Past. Follow link below, scroll down page and click on 50 Plus Expo Dublin, then Book Event. It doesn't seem to matter what date you ask for, the ticket I got is good for any of the three days. Tickets will be emailed to you. . http://seniortimes.ie/50-plus-expo/


  • #23
    oceanclub
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    Going to the Expo now. Never did get my tickets emailed to me but will ask on the door answer see.


  • #24
    leck
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    oceanclub wrote: »
    Going to the Expo now. Never did get my tickets emailed to me but will ask on the door answer see.
    PM me with your mobile number and I'll forward you a text that will get you in. They sent me both a text message and an email with printable tickets.


  • #25
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Lecture tomorrow on the records of the Erasmus Smith Trust

    http://www.irishancestors.ie/?p=7967

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  • #26
    blue banana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭blue banana


    Genealogy Quarter - Found Dead or Alive at 50 plus Expo at Cork City Hall on Saturday 4th and Sunday March 5th, 2017.

    http://seniortimes.ie/50-plus-expo/


  • #27
    pedroeibar1
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    Clare Roots Society
    Thursday 16th March 8pm Old Ground Hotel, Ennis, Co.Clare

    Lecture by Claire Bradley: “Civil Registers the Game changer: How online access to the civil registers has forever changed Irish genealogy"


  • #28
    cobham
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    Genealogical Society of Ireland

    Annual General Meeting of the Society and Monthly Lecture by Ciara Kerrigan "Manuscript Collegions of the Genealogical Office". All Welcome. Contribution €3.00. NOTA BENE: Monthly lecture open to all. Only fully paid up Members can paricipate in the AGM, vote or be proposed for election to the Board.

    location Cumberland Street, Dun Laoire 8pm


  • #29
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Date? Where in Cumberland Street? Thanks.


  • #30
    tabbey
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    pedroeibar1 wrote: »
    Date? Where in Cumberland Street? Thanks.

    College of Further Education (or whatever they call it now)

    GSI evening lectures are the second Tuesday of each month, at 20.00.

    GSI morning meetings (informal chat)are in Hardy's Bar, Royal Marine Hotel, fourth Wednesday each month, January - November, 1030 - 1200.
    No morning meeting in December.


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  • #31
    pinkypinky
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    3 diary dates for IGRS events in Dublin.

    22/04: Spring lecture (following AGM for members only) Loreto Ireland - archivist Áine McHugh will speak on the history and archives of the sisters.

    20/05: Open Day - 3 long lectures and 3 short ones. Full details coming soon but will feature a lecture on finding Irish people in Scotland and a history of German Immigrants who became pork butchers in Dublin.

    Both of the above in the Pearse St library & full details are in the link above.

    07/06: Summer lecture by Bob Frewen (of this parish, under an alias!) On: James Franklin Fuller, noted architect and amateur genealogist. This is an evening lecture in the RSAI.

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  • #32
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Full details of the IGRS Open Day now online.

    20/05 in Pearse St library.

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  • #33
    MAGZERFLOOD
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭MAGZERFLOOD


    Irish Family History Society's Talks in Dublin City Library and Archive this Sat:

    2.15 Thomas MacDonagh's Family History: Muriel McAuley
    3.15 Westland Row School and the Six Past Pupils Who Died in 1916: Margaret Loftus


  • #34
    Waitsian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2017/05/pronis-archives-unlocked-lunchtime.html

    Thursday 14 September: Drawn from our land: revealing maps from the collections, with Dr Glynn Kelso
    Thursday 21 September: Prison records at PRONI, with Graham Jackson
    Thursday 28 September: Sport in the Archives, with Andrew Toland
    Thursday 5 October: Capturing the past ? photographic collections and digitisation at PRONI, with Joy Carey & Lorraine Bourke

    Admission free but booking essential.

    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pronis-archives-unlocked-tickets-34720473872


  • #35
    pinkypinky
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    Social event:

    UCD's long term course in genealogy run by Sean Murphy finished up this year. He's obviously still working as a genealogist, just no longer teaching there.

    A few alumni decided to have a few drinks for him on Friday 16th June in McDaids on Harry St from 7pm onwards.
    Hoping to make contact with his former students - there must be a lot over 25 years.

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  • #36
    pinkypinky
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    Northern Ireland Family History Society is having its first genealogy fair next Saturday in Ballymena.

    Anyone thinking of going?

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  • #37
    KildareFan
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Social event:

    UCD's long term course in genealogy run by Sean Murphy finished up this year. He's obviously still working as a genealogist, just no longer teaching there.

    .

    I see Sean's still spreading the word - he's teaching an eight week course in the NLI http://www.nli.ie/en/genealogy_events.aspx


  • #38
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Yes - it was very successful last time around and they had to turned people away, so I'm not surprised the NLI is giving him another go.

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  • #39
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Small plug: I'm also teaching a class in the evenings in Malahide starting at the end of September.

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  • #40
    BowWow
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Small plug: I'm also teaching a class in the evenings in Malahide starting at the end of September.

    I did this course last year - highly recommend it to anyone thinking of tracing their roots. My family and my wife's have loved the info I've recovered over the past year. I'm having to provide them with regular updates or I start getting emails or calls!


  • #41
    blue banana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭blue banana


    Introduction to Family History – Evening course at Ashton School, Blackrock Road, Cork

    Beginners course with both theory and lots of practical.

    http://ashton.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ashton-nightclass-brochure-autumn-2017-web.pdf

    Enrolment Night Wednesday 13th September 7pm-8pm

    Classes will commence on Monday 25th September 2017

    Monday 7.00-9.00pm | Duration: 8 Weeks | Fee: €95 | Tutor: Karen O’Riordan


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  • #42
    pedroeibar1
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    The ‘Back to our Past’ expo starts this year on Friday 20th Oct.and runs until Sunday 22nd in the RDS.
    The programme for the lectures on DNA/Genealogy is HERE


  • #43
    leck
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    For free admission to Back to our Past (€10 on door) go here and click on Book Event. Ticket(s) will be emailed to you.
    http://seniortimes.ie/2017-50-plus-expo-list-exhibitors/


  • #44
    dubhthach
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    With regards to BTOP DNA lectures, several of them can be watched on the 'Genetic Genealogy Ireland' Facebook group:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/geneticgenealogyireland/

    Presentations which will contain data from unpublished academic studies (eg. Irish DNA atlas presentation on Sunday) won't be streamed. One interesting caveat from a historic point from Bradley (TCD) presentation yesterday is that we now have our first Mesolithic (Hunter/gather) ancient DNA genome from Ireland, it's unpublished so I imagine there will be a paper in the next year or so.


  • #45
    pinkypinky
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    The IGRS has a lecture tonight in the RSAI on Merrion Square.

    Paddy Waldron of the Clare Roots Society will talk about getting the most from your autosomal DNA results, something we discuss a lot on the forum!

    Starts: 18:45

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  • #46
    pinkypinky
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    Just a last minute promotion: new term of my beginner's class starts tomorrow night in Malahide Community School. You can enrol online here: http://malahidecsadulted.ie/irish-genealogy/

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  • #47
    pinkypinky
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    Everyone knows about the Cork Genealogical Society's one day conference next Saturday right?

    Let me know if anyone round here will be there. Impromptu boards meetup possible!

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  • #48
    Meursault
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    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Everyone knows about the Cork Genealogical Society's one day conference next Saturday right?

    Let me know if anyone round here will be there. Impromptu boards meetup possible!

    Hi pinkypinky,

    have you attended these events before? is it worth attending? do they provide access to records at the events?

    i havent attended these before, but i would be interested to know exactly what to expect from it.

    i have been trying to put together a family tree. my parents have little or no knowledge of their family, beyond their own parents. i have been trying to access some records online but they are all fee paying and again i am not sure whether they are any good.

    any advice would be great.

    thanks


  • #49
    pinkypinky
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    All the details of CGS's conference are on the link I posted. It's not an event where there will be free access to records. There'll be several lectures and some stands of genealogy organisations, but not the big commercials. I think they are worth attending. I've heard most of these lecturers speak before and they're all experts.

    Also read our beginner's sticky for lots of advice.

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  • #50
    Hermy
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    Meursault wrote: »
    ...i have been trying to put together a family tree. my parents have little or no knowledge of their family, beyond their own parents. i have been trying to access some records online but they are all fee paying and again i am not sure whether they are any good...

    Why not start a new thread giving some details of what you know and what you're trying to find out and I'm sure one of us will be able to point you in the right direction.

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  • #51
    Meursault
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭Meursault


    Hermy wrote: »
    Why not start a new thread giving some details of what you know and what you're trying to find out and I'm sure one of us will be able to point you in the right direction.

    Thanks all for the advice. I am in the middle of trying to gather as much details as possible first and then i might look for further advice.

    I recently did the DNA test with Ancestry.com. interesting results and it automatically connected me to 2nd - 6th cousins. those dna tests are incredible.


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