John Grenham, Using the “Irish Ancestors” Website  (webinar)

In this webinar from Dublin, John Grenham will discuss his Irish Ancestors website (www.johngrenham.com), an excellent jumping-off point for Irish genealogy research. He will guide us through its nooks and crannies and provide a repertoire of tips and tricks to get the best out of the site. A 33% discount off an annual subscription to Irish Ancestors will be available to all attendees.

    Grenham is the author of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, the standard reference guide for Irish genealogy, and Clans and Families of Ireland, among other works. He was project manager with the Irish Genealogical Project for several years and later went on to develop and market his own genealogical software. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Irish Genealogical Research Society in 2007 and a Fellowship of the Genealogical Society of Ireland in 2010.

Melissa Johnson, Using Vital Records

Melissa Johnson, CG, returns to the Forum with a lecture about how to use birth, marriage, death, and divorce records to build your family tree. Discover records that can substitute for vital records that are unavailable, as well as records that can be located based on information found in vital records. While geared toward beginners, this talk will also appeal to more experienced researchers.

     Johnson specializes in researching families from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the British Isles, as well as in DNA testing for adoptees and unknown parentage, dual citizenship, and lineage society research.