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January 18, 2020	Susan Jaycox Murphy Cemetery Research: Eternity Is Not Forever Cemetery research can be rewarding for family historians, providing them with information that they cannot find anywhere else. Discoveries can include missing children, unknown relatives, dates and places of births, marriages, and deaths, relationships, group associations, friends, and even photographs. Susan Jaycox Murphy will discuss the law, the practices of cemeteries, what can be found in cemetery research, where we can find records, and what we can do to preserve our family memorials. Kathleen McGee Irish Civil Registration of Marriages 10:00 AM Kathleen McGee: Irish Civil Registration of Marriages 10:30 AM: Refreshment Break Meet and socialize with other members. Ask the Experts This is an opportunity to meet one-on-one with an experienced genealogist to ask a basic genealogy question. 11:00 AM: Featured Speaker: Susan Jaycox Murphy
February 15, 2020	Show and Tell Members are invited to participate in this program. If you would like to participate, please email Patricia Phelan at programs@ifhf.org. 10:00 – 10:45 Show Members are invited to exhibit family heirlooms, artifacts, letters, clothing, photos, or other objects at display tables in the auditorium. 10:45 Refreshment Break 11:15 Tell Members talk about a favorite or fascinating ancestor, an interesting research story, and so on.
March 21, 2020	Susan R. Miller New York Land: The Soil that Yields Records For those researching families in New York City and New York State, land records can produce a crop of helpful information. Miller will discuss access to land records and will provide an overview to some collections that may yield results for your research.
April 18, 2020
May 16, 2020	Melanie McComb, Irish Immigration from Canada to the U.S. (webinar) Across the Border: Irish Immigration from Canada to the U.S. 18th to 20th Century – Not all of our Irish ancestors came directly to the U.S. Instead, they settled in Canada for several years or even for many generations. In this webinar, Melanie McComb will explore the various waves of migration from Canada to the U.S. including the mass migration during the Famine and homesteading ancestors who settled the American Midwest. McComb, a staff genealogist for American Ancestors, lectures internationally on genealogical topics. She has a blog called The Shamrock Genealogist.
June 2, 2020	Toni McKeen, Becoming an American: Naturalization Record Toni McKeen returns to the Forum to discuss the information naturalization records contain, who became naturalized and why, the steps involved in the naturalization process, the rules for women and why you can’t find them in the records, and the special handling of men serving in the military. McKeen, who has taught genealogy courses for many years, has also lectured at numerous genealogy societies in the Northeast