Irish Vital Records: Unlock the Story of Your Ancestors
Date: February 15, 2025
Time: 12:00 AM
Location: virtual on Zoom

Irish Vital Records: Unlock the Story of Your Ancestors


10:30 AM - Noon CST (UTC-6)
Presented by Fiona Fitzsimons
$15 for IGSI members (with Discount Code); $20 for non-members
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Civil records are the easiest of all Irish records to find and to interpret. They’re the building blocks of your family history, often the first records you will use in research. The records document 180 years of social change in Ireland. We'll discuss how you can access them online, or in Ireland. If you can't travel to the Emerald Isle, when might you benefit from hiring a researcher there? Who might you correspond with for local expertise?
 
Audience level: all
 
 
The Discount Code will be sent to members via email and is posted on IGSI’s member-only webpage (link). You can reach the IGSI Education team at Education@IrishGenealogical.org

About the presenter

Fiona Fitzsimons is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and historical expert on Irish family research. Since 1996 she has developed the College’s historical research department, setting high standards for all our research work. Since 2005 Fiona and her team have provided research and historical consultancy for television and film production in Europe, including WDYTYA, Faces of America, Finding Our Roots, and Ancestors in the Famine.
 
Fiona is a writer and educator in all this Irish public history, and has taught at Trinity College Dublin’s Innovation Academy; Ancestral Connections Summer School in NUI.Cork, the British Institute, and SLC. Fiona hosts the popular Summer Talks series in the National Library of Ireland. In 2014 she established the monthly Expert Workshop @NLIreland series. She writes the column "Kindred Lines" in History Ireland and is a feature writer for the online magazine Irish Lives Remembered. Fiona contributes regularly to specialist journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. She is an IGSI favorite presenter!