St. Pat’s DayTwo-lecture Webinar  from Dublin, Ireland

• Eileen Ó Dúill, CG, Fancy Tart Is Coming to Tea: Making Sense of Family Stories
• Sean Ó Dúill, Death and Burial Customs in 19th Century Ireland

Eileen M. Ó Dúill, CG, Research Director of HeirsIreland, is a Certified Genealogist and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. With 24 years’ experience in more than 1000 international estates, she is one of Ireland’s leading genealogists. 

     Sean Ó Dúill is a fluent Irish speaker from Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. He taught in St. Declan’s College, Cabra, Dublin, until his retirement. He has published many articles in Irish and English on various aspects of Irish folklore. He has lectured to genealogists and family historians in Ireland and the U.S. and was the keynote speaker at the National Genealogical Society conference in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2005.

Irene O’Brien, Glasgow City Archives, Irish Ancestors in Scottish Records (webinar) 

     In this live webinar, Irene O’Brien will describe both local and national sources for tracing Irish ancestors in Glasgow and Scotland. She will cover ScotlandsPeople, which includes Scotland’s vital records, and will discuss the types of records, such as Poor Law records, to be found in Scottish local archives, using Glasgow City Archives to illustrate. Church records for various denominations will also be discussed.  O’Brien, city archivist at the Glasgow City Archives, established the Scottish Council on Archives, the lead strategic body for archives and records in Scotland; she is now its honorary president. She frequently lectures on Scottish and Irish family history.

Pam Guye Holland, Researching in Irish Records (webinar) 

Finding genealogy records in Ireland can be confusing. There is no “one-stop” site for all your research needs and different websites offer different records. Follow along as we research an Irish couple and learn all we can about them. Besides well-known records, like census, civil, church, and land, infrequently used resources like place names, local sources, and mapping tools will also be covered.

Linda MacIver, Mining for Genealogical Gold in Federal Resources (webinar)

Linda MacIver will discuss her discoveries regarding the wealth of federal records useful for genealogical research. She believes researchers haven’t done that “reasonably exhaustive search” unless they include more than the usual federal records.

Linda MacIver is an educator, lecturer, librarian, and genealogy researcher. During her many years working at the Boston Public Library, she inaugurated the BPL patron genealogy classes. She taught the beginners’ genealogy course for five years and organized two extremely popular seasons of the Local and Family History series. She is the Civil Records Director for Federal Records for the Massachusetts Genealogical Council and a member of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists (MSOG) and the Essex (Mass.) Society of Genealogists (ESOG).

to come

Melissa Johnson, Using Vital Records

This lecture is geared toward beginners, but will also appeal to more experienced researchers. Learn how to use birth, marriage, death and divorce records to begin building your family tree. This lecture also focuses on records that can be used in place of vital records when they aren’t available, as well as other records that can be located from information on vital records.