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Irish Genealogy Workshop

Co-Hosted with the Plainfield Public Library (Online)

Enjoy a live stream of our Irish Genealogy Workshop from the comfort of your home via Zoom. Virtual attendees will have access to the same lectures as the in-person program.

Our program coordinators will field questions and answers at the end of each session.

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

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