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Talk for NIFHS Ballymena Branch, Making Sense of the Census by Roddy Hegarty, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 @ 7.15 pm.
Hybrid event. Click the title for more info.
Outing to NIFHS Research Centre, Saturday, 5 October 2024, 10:30-14:30.
On-site event
Talk for NIFHS Foyle Branch, Latest Archaeological Discoveries in the Clooney Dig by Katy McMonagle, Monday 7 October 2024 at 7.00 pm.
Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom. Branch & Society members who wish to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Foyle@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.
Talk for NIFHS Killyleagh Branch, The Mountstewart Tragedy on Strangford Lough by Clive Scoular on Monday, 7 October 2024 @ 7.30 pm.
Talk for NIFHS Lisburn Branch, Land: From Tenancy To Ownership by Dr Des McCabe (PRONI), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 @ 7.30 pm.
On-site event. Click the title for more info.
Talk for NIFHS Larne Branch Using Military Records & Photographs in Family History Research by Tommy McClimonds, on Thursday, 10 October 2024 @ 7.15 pm.
Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom. Branch & Society members who wish to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Larne@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.
Talk for NIFHS Antrim & Newtownabbey Branch, Family History Using Irish Newspaper by Natalie Bodle, Monday, 14 October 2024 @ 7 pm. Zoom event.
Those wishing to attend should e-mail the Branch Secretary at AntrimNewtownabbey@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.
Visit to the Public Record Office (PRONI) in Belfast, Wednesday 16 October 2024, time TBC.
On-site event.
Talk for NIFHS Belfast Branch, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors in County Donegal by Una Matthewson, Tuesday, 22 October 2024 at 7.30 pm.
Zoom event. Those wishing to attend should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Belfast@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.
The aim of this talk is to give an overview of the family history resources available to the family history researcher and to introduce some of the gems of the Donegal Studies Collection.
Donegal County Library holds a valuable and diverse collection of family and local history resources relating to the history and heritage of the county.
Irish family history research can be challenging due to the lack of census returns and the relatively late introduction of civil registration. However, there is a wealth of alterative records available that can help piece together your family history, ranging from the very early Muster Rolls of 1630 to Griffith’s Valuation of the mid-1850s and may more. The Donegal Studies Collection holds many of these resources, as well as more general materials relating to the history of the province. Local history books that can often contain information that can round off your dedicated years of research, by situating your family members in a time and place.
Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, Mills of Ulster, with a focus on the CCG area by Sebastian Graham, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 @ 8 pm.
Hybrid event: on-site & on Zoom.
Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.
Part of the Halloween festivities for the launch of Thursday openings of the NIFHS Research Centre.
We are celebrating the reopening of the Research Centre on Thursdays. From 31st October the Research Centre will be open from 2.00pm – 8.00pm. Halloween Goodies from 5pm. Special DNA Talk at 7pm - Raising The Dead - when you can learn how to how to reconstruct the DNA of deceased ancestors!