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Upcoming Events

February 20, 2021

Ask a Genealogist –  Speakers: Kathleen McGee, Marie Scalisi, and Patricia Phelan 

In this Zoom program, Education Director Kathleen McGee and professional genealogists Marie Scalisi and Patricia Phelan will be available to answer your research questions. Whether you need to know what research step to take next or where to find an Irish record online or how to break down a brick wall, the panel will try to help you.

Please email your queries to programs@ifhf.org by February 15. Questions will also be accepted during the program.

 

March 20

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.

April 17

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.

May 15

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.

June 19

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).

September 18

to come

October 16

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.

 

 

 

 

February 20, 2021

Ask a Genealogist –  Speakers: Kathleen McGee, Marie Scalisi, and Patricia Phelan

In this Zoom program, Education Director Kathleen McGee and professional genealogists Marie Scalisi and Patricia Phelan will be available to answer your research questions. Whether you need to know what research step to take next or where to find an Irish record online or how to break down a brick wall, the panel will try to help you.

Please email your queries to programs@ifhf.org by February 15. Questions will also be accepted during the program.

 

This will be a ZOOM presentation.

 

This presentation (for Members Only) will begin at 11 a.m.
Members with email addresses on file will be invited about one week in advance.
If you don’t receive an invitation, please contact memberstream@ifhf.org
Stay Healthy!

Hope to see you soon.



The Plainview Family History Center
will be closed until further notice.

Also be aware that:
NARA-NYC is closed until further notice.
The NYPL has canceled all public programs
We suggest you check before going to any archive or record repository.


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Meeting will be held at
Bethpage Public Library

47 Powell Ave., Bethpage, N.Y.

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