DNA Focus | Martin McDowell | Ballymena Branch

DNA Focus | Martin McDowell | Ballymena Branch

Talk for NIFHS Ballymena Branch, DNA Focus by Martin McDowell, Wednesday, 6 November 2024 @ 7.15 pm. Hybrid event. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Ballymena@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link. NIFHS Education Officer Martin McDowell, is the project administrator of the North of Ireland DNA project. He is keen to encourage DNA testing across Northern Ireland and has helped many family historians worldwide to connect with their Northern Irish roots. Martin’s talk will focus on DNA...
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors in County Donegal – Una Matthewson | Belfast Branch

Tracing Your Irish Ancestors in County Donegal – Una Matthewson | Belfast Branch

Talk for NIFHS Belfast Branch, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors in County Donegal by Una Matthewson (Donegal Studies Librarian, Letterkenny), 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...
Land: From Tenancy to Ownership | Dr Des McCabe (PRONI) | Lisburn Branch

Land: From Tenancy to Ownership | Dr Des McCabe (PRONI) | Lisburn Branch

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. Tenancy and ownership of property in Ireland/Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1960. Transition of farmers from tenants (under landed gentry) to owners of land over a hundred years and how this change is reflected in the land registry and registry of deeds.   Des studied archaeology and history in University College Dublin where he completed a doctorate in history (1988), on the subject of rural society in the west of Ireland before the Famine. He has worked in the Centre for Urban History, Leicester University – on the Famine Project in Trinity College Dublin with the Dictionary of Irish Biography and on the OPW History Project and has been archivist in PRONI since...
Making Sense of the Census | Roddy Hegarty | Ballymena Branch

Making Sense of the Census | Roddy Hegarty | Ballymena Branch

Talk for NIFHS Ballymena Branch, Making Sense of the Census by Roddy Hegarty, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 @ 7.15 pm. Hybrid event. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Ballymena@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link.   Roddy Hegarty, currently Director of the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive in Armagh, will outline how Irish censuses can help with family...
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