Do you have some Irish brick walls in your family tree research? This session will discuss a series of "brickwall" breaking through strategies, focusing on those that apply to tracking immigrant origins and determining emigration patterns. Participants will learn immigrant problem-solving strategies, cluster-group approaches, ways to determine the chain of emigration and organizational methods.

 

Following the presentation, a panel of experts will address 10 participant-submitted questions. To submit your Brick Wall download  (below after Registration link) and complete the attached form then e-mail to Education@IrishGenealogical. Note: Due to time limitations, only the first 10 registrant submissions will be discussed during the webinar event.

 

Michael John Neill has been an active genealogical researcher since the early 1980s. He has lectured nationally on a wide variety of genealogical topics and regularly leads research trips to the Family History Library i n Salt Lake City. Genealogy Tip of the Day, Rootdig and Search Tip of the Day are all written by Michael.

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

 

Throughout the 19th century, Ireland endured 29 famines, subsistence crises and crop failures. While the Great Hunger of 1845-1852, when over one million people died, is well known, other crises had the potential to be as devastating. Ireland was the only country in Europe to have a lower population in 1900 than at the start of the century. One of the consequences of these famines and food crises was the large numbers of Irish people who emigrated from Ireland. An estimated 8 million left Ireland in the 19th century, 2.5 million emigrating in the decade between 1845 and 1855, settling in Canada, Australia, Britain and in particular, the United States.  In this presentation you will learn of the impact of famines on Ireland, the role of government and its agencies in relation to famine relief, 19th century emigration patterns, the settlement patterns of Irish emigrants and go through a case study of Irish famine emigrants and marriage in New York. (A reading list of relevant material will be provided).

 

Professor Christine Kinealy is Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut and a leading expert on the Great Famine of 1845-52. Among her many publications are This Great Calamity: the Irish Famine, 1845-52 (Dublin, 1994).

 

Dr. Gerard Moran ​ is an emeritus researcher at the Social Science Research Center at NUI Galway. He has written extensively on nineteenth-centuury Ireland and among his publications is Sending Out Ireland's Poor: Assisted Emigration to North America in the Nineteenth Century (Dublin, 2004).

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

 

Your DNA results have arrived, but your ethnicity isn't what you expected? You have cousin matches, but you don't know who they are or how you are related? This presentation will discuss what's behind your DNA results, what your ethnicity estimates might mean, how to determine your relationship to your matches, and what all of this can do to forward your family research.

Takeaways from this webinar: How the major four DNA testing companies differ; reliability of ethnicity estimates; and, determining and communicating with cousin matches. There is a four-page handout plus two relationship charts.

 

Elizabeth Williams Gomoll, CG began researching her Swedish and German ancestors more than forty years ago. She is immediate past present of the Association for Professional Genealogists Northland Chapter, co-editor of Minnesota Genealogist quarterly journal, and chairs two Minnesota Genealogical Society committees. Liz is a member of the National Genealogical Society, Association for Professional Genealogist, and several ethnic societies. She has published two genealogy-related books. Liz does research for clients across the U.S. and overseas as Red Bird Genealogy Services (www.RedBirdGen.com).

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)

 

 

All you need to attend is an internet-connected device with audio capabilities (computer, iPad, smartphone, etc.)