10:30 AM - Noon CST (UTC-5)
Presented by Jillian vanTurnhout, MAGI from Ireland
A free webinar thanks to a generous donor! Registration is required.
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Ready to dive deeper into your Irish ancestry? Jillian will guide you through essential resources for tracing your Irish roots, from civil registration records and parish registers to online databases, land records, and archives. You'll learn about key record types, understand what's available for different time periods, and discover effective strategies for overcoming common challenges like missing records, surname variations, and contradictory information.
Jillian van Turnhout is a former Senator in the upper house of the Irish Parliament. For over 18 years she has developed her skills as a professional genealogist, researching family histories in all corners all corners of Ireland, the UK, and even Wisconsin. She is now a full time genealogist based in Doblin. Jillian is a Member of Accredited Genealogists Ireland (MAGI), a member of the Irish Genealogical Research Society, the Irish Family History Society (ifhs.ie), the Society of Genealogists (sog.org.uk), and the founder and managing director of Genealogy.ie.
If you will come to the Minnesota Genealogy Center for this event, please consider these details:
- The Minnesota Genealogy Center – 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Mendota Heights
- Doors open at 9:30 am. Attendees can share coffee or tea and Irish treats before the program, chat with other local Irish family history researchers, ask questions of IGSI leadership, and share tips and questions with others. We’ll even have a few door prizes awarded folling the presentation for lucky attendees.
- We encourage you to arrive no later than 10:15 to attend the "watch party" for the presentation. You are welcome to spend time in the Library until the presentation is complete at noon.
- Jillian van Turnhout’s presentation, “Tracing Your Irish Roots: A Beginner’s Guide”, is an introduction to Irish civil registration records and parish registers, to online databases, and to land records and archives found in Ireland. She will also discuss effective strategies for overcoming common challenges like missing records, surname variations, and contradictory information.
Details of the location and the Library can be found on the document at this link:
