IGSI's education committee has created an outstanding schedule of webinars for 2023, starting with Fiona Fitzsimons in January.

January 21, 2023 - Irish Church Records: Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland 

presented by Fiona Fitzsimons
Saturday, January 21, 2023, 10:30 AM - Noon CST (UTC-6)
$25 for non-members

$15 for IGSI members (discount code sent to members via email and posted on member-only webpage link)

Church records offer some of the earliest evidence we have for Irish family history. Using the records of the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland, this talk explores what records were made, what survives, and where and how to access them. Irish church records are an indispensable source for social history and allow us to trace a rapidly changing Irish society.

Fiona Fitzsimons is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin,             a historical expert and entrepreneur. Since 1996 she has developed the College’s historical research department, setting high standards for all their 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 Irish public history and has taught at Trinity College Dublin’s Innovation Academy, Ancestral Connections Summer School in N.U.I. 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.

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