10:30 AM - Noon CST (UTC-5)
Presented by John Grenham from Ireland
$15 for IGSI members (with Discount Code); $20 for non-members
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The host of the JohnGrenham.com.web repository, and the Irish Roots blog (www.johngrenham.com/blog) returns for an annual update. John's team has made major upgrades to the mapping features on his site over the past year. We look forward to learning of leveraging his tools in tandem with the newly released 1926 Census of Ireland.
Teasers include:
- Complete redesign of the surname information dashboard.
- Updated surname mapping.
- New zoomable maps of Griffith's householders and listing of all surname variants.
- A collaboration with FindMyPast.ie results in Griffith's entries now mapped down to townland level, with a much more fine-grained overview of exactly where families were in a county and parish.
- Also with FMP data >8,000 new surnames: unique, mistranscriptions, & actual new variants of existing surnames. All are integrated with the surnames and variants tables.
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About the speaker
Serving as Project Manager with the Irish Genealogical Project from 1991-95, John then developed and marketed his own genealogical software. In 2005 he was the first Genealogist-in-Residence at Dublin City Library. He was awarded a fellowship with The Irish Genealogical Research Society in 2007 and with the Genealogical Society of Ireland in 2010. He is the author of Tracing your Irish Ancestors (5th ed. Dublin, Baltimore, 2019) the standard reference guide for Irish genealogy, and the basis for the Irish Ancestors website. Other books include The Little Book of Irish Clans (2015), The Atlantic Coast of Ireland (2014), Clans and Families of Ireland (1995), and An Illustrated History of Ireland (1997). He wrote the "Irish Roots" column in The Irish Times from 2009-16 and started the Irish Ancestors website in conjunction with The Irish Times. Since 2016 he manages the successor website at www.johngrenham.com and continues the blog there.
