{"id":2530,"date":"2018-01-04T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/?page_id=2530"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:57:00","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2530\" class=\"elementor elementor-2530\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-408d2ed5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"408d2ed5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-36685c52\" data-id=\"36685c52\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2da1835b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2da1835b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Past Meetings &amp; Events<\/h1><p><strong>Past Events 2026<\/strong><\/p><p>March: <strong>Frank McKenna<\/strong>, The Orphan Trains<\/p><p>February: <strong>Noel Carolan<\/strong>, The 1926 Irish Census<\/p><p>January: <strong>Kerri Tannenbaum, <\/strong>Researching with Census Records<\/p><p><strong>Past Events 2025<\/strong><\/p><p>December:\u00a0 Annual Holiday Luncheon (cancelled due to weather)<\/p><p>November: <strong>Irene Morgan<\/strong>, The Shape-Shifting Nature of Old Irish Surnames<\/p><p>October: <strong>Elizabeth Stack<\/strong>, The Great Hunger<\/p><p>September: <strong>Jill Williams<\/strong>, Researching the Irish Schools&#8217; Collection<\/p><p>June:\u00a0 <strong>Kevin Cassidy, <\/strong>Follow Your Family Through Their Chain Migration<\/p><p>May:\u00a0 <strong>Marion Casey<\/strong>, The Transformation of the Irish Image<\/p><p>April: <strong>Katherine R. Willson<\/strong>, NYC&#8217;s Emigrant Savings Bank Records<\/p><p>March: <strong>Kerri Tannenbaum<\/strong>, Introduction to Irish Genealogy<\/p><p>February:\u00a0 <strong>Claire Bradley<\/strong>, DNA in Irish Family History<\/p><p>January:\u00a0 <strong>Irene Morgan<\/strong>, Old Irish First Names &amp; Nicknames<\/p><p><strong>Past Events 2024<\/strong><\/p><p>December: Annual Holiday Luncheon<\/p><p>November: <strong>Steven Smyrl<\/strong>, Researching Irish Probate Records<\/p><p>October: <strong>Tyler Anbinder<\/strong>, Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York<\/p><p>September: <strong>Shannon O&#8217;Connell, CG,\u00a0<\/strong>Finding Female Ancestors<\/p><p>June: <b>Gena Philibert-Ortega<\/b>, Written in Stone: In-Depth Study of a Gravestone<\/p><p>May: <b>Rhonda McClure<\/b>, Researching Civil War, WWI, and WWII Records<\/p><p>April: <b>Art Mattson<\/b>, The Wrecks of the Bristol and the Mexico<\/p><p>March: <b>Marie Scalisi and Kerri Tannenbaum<\/b>, Ask a Genealogist<\/p><p>February: <b>Lisa S. Gorrell<\/b>, CG, How to Leave Your Genealogy<\/p><p>January: <b>Kerri Tannenbaum<\/b>, Researching the New York City Irish<\/p><p><strong>Past Events 2023<\/strong><\/p><p>December: Annual Holiday Luncheon<\/p><p>November:\u00a0<b>Michael Walsh,<\/b> MAGI, Griffith\u2019s Valuation<\/p><p>October:\u00a0<b>Michael Fitzpatrick,<\/b> The Irish Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg<\/p><p>September:\u00a0<b>Melanie McComb<\/b>, Getting Started in Irish Genealogy<\/p><p>June: <b>Lisa Alzo<\/b>, Cause of Death: Dissecting Coroner\u2019s Records for Genealogical Research<\/p><p>May:\u00a0<b>Kerri Tannenbaum<\/b>, Breaking Down Irish Brick Walls<\/p><p>April: <b>Nicola Morris<\/b>, Ireland\u2019s Virtual Record Treasury<\/p><p>March:\u00a0<b>Sandra Doble<\/b>, Researching Church of Ireland Records<\/p><p>February: <b>Show and Tell<\/b><\/p><p>January:\u00a0<strong>Lynn Palermo<\/strong>, Writing Family History: Shaping Genealogy into Shareable Stories<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/index.php\/past-events-archives\/\">Click here for more archives of past events.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past Meetings &amp; Events Past Events 2026 March: Frank McKenna, The Orphan Trains February: Noel Carolan, The 1926 Irish Census January: Kerri Tannenbaum, Researching with Census Records Past Events 2025 December:\u00a0 Annual Holiday Luncheon (cancelled due to weather) November: Irene Morgan, The Shape-Shifting Nature of Old Irish Surnames October: Elizabeth Stack, The Great Hunger September: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2530","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16658,"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2530\/revisions\/16658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifhf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}