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Irish Genealogy Workshop

Co-Hosted with the Plainfield Public Library (In person)

Join us for a two-day Irish genealogy workshop led by our friends from the Ulster Historical Foundation.

The Ulster Historical Foundation will present an extensive list of lectures over this two-day workshop.

• Understanding Irish Townlands: the importance of place, identity and administrative divisions in Irish research
• An introduction to Archives in Ireland and their Websites (for example, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, the National Archives of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland
• Records Related to the Different Churches in Ireland
• Using land records: Griffith’s Valuation, Tithe and Estate records
• Irish Education and School Records: a Valuable alternative to Non-Available Census records for Nineteenth-Century Research
• Newspapers as a source for Irish research
• Emigration from the north of Ireland to North America – sources for researching emigrant ancestors
• The Irish Poor Law and local government records: Board of Guardians, workhouse registers and grand jury records, etc
• Law and Order Records in Ireland

During the second day of the workshop, the Ulster Historical Foundation will host one-on-one consultations. The fees for these will be collected online through their website.

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