The Irish Family History Centre Visitor experience will be Introducing an exciting way for visitors to search for Irish Ancestors and discover their own unique family story while exploring Irish heritage along the way. EPIC Ireland showcases the unique global journey of the Irish people and The Irish Family History...
Eneclann and Ancestor Network have been awarded the tender to partner with the National Library of Ireland in providing their genealogy service 2016. This is the 5th year they are partnering with the NLI to provide the popular genealogy service. Visiting researchers to the NLI can avail of the advice...
The fun of the genealogy service in the National Library is that we never know in advance who we’ll meet, or what stories we’ll hear. Our job is to listen, to identify verifiable facts and events, and to guide enquirers in their research. The search never ends. As we start...
Outline: Introductory Genealogy Resources in the United States of America Almost 3.8 million people immigrated to the United States of America from Ireland between 1851 and 1921. Millions more arrived on the shores of North America in the decades and centuries before those years. Therefore, practically every Irish-born...
Civil registration is a double edged sword. We are always delighted when our searches fall in to the time when we might find a birth, marriage or death for our ancestors. These records can often lead us to new learnings about our ancestors. Finding the correct civil record for ‘our’...
Tourism Ireland has made a short video about Irish-American blogger Gerry Britt’s ancestral search in Ireland. It’s an emotional watch as Gerry recalls how his mission to uncover his Irish roots began and watching his excitement as he tracks down the exact house and town where his ancestors lived. Uncovering...
Sitting in traffic on the way home, an ad in the Irish language came on the car radio. Despite 14 years schooling in it, I’m not fluent, and had to concentrate to understand what was said: “take part in the census” and contribute to your future. At the time of...
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On May 7th 2016 EPIC Ireland will open its doors to an exciting new visitor experience in the CHQ building on Dublin’s docklands. EPIC Ireland will be the home for the stories of 10 million men and women who are the roots of 70 million people from all walks of life. As part...
Outline: Thousands of Irish girls migrated to Australia in the 1830s, a decade before the Great Famine. What was it like to migrate to the far ends of the known world at this time? How did they survive the rigours of the voyage? Did they ‘swing swang’ in hammocks...
This podcast is a recording of The Expert Workshop talks organised by Ancestor Network and Eneclann that take place in the National Library of Ireland every month ( except for August and December), The following talk took place June 17th 2015. Thousands of Irish girls migrated to Australia in the...
Gianpiero Cavalleri The Irish DNA Atlas: <iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/228513792&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe> We all carry a record of our origins in our genes. Genetic genealogy uses DNA testing with documentary evidence, to prove family connections. Our first speaker, Dr. Gianpiero Cavalleri outlined how genetic genealogy works, and described one...