Following is a complete listing of IGSI's educational offerings through the end of 2024, via Zoom or hybrid events.

Saturday, August 17 - virtual webinar
Railroad Records and Railroad History: Methods for Tracking

Presented by Paula Stewart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA

10:30 AM - Noon CST (UTC-6)

$15 for IGSI members with Discount Code; $20 for non-members 

Choo choo! …the express to learning more about ancestors who worked on the railroad is just a week away from leaving on track IGSI. Let Paula Stuart-Warren help you know where to expand your research. No ancestors who worked in the rail industry? Did they use railroads to get to the destination in the Americas? You may also learn research methods from Paula that can help you with tips to find those ancestors who worked in related industries.

Can’t attend on August 17? Register anyway and get a free link to the recording and handout.

Paula is an international educator-researcher-consultant in genealogy with a focus on unusual resources, manuscripts, methodology, and analysis. Rail history is a special passion for her. She has been a regular instructor for prominent national Institutes (SLIG, GRIP) and presents for audiences of FGS and NGS across North America.

Register here: www.eventcreate.com/e/igsi-virtual-2024-aug

The member Discount Code is posted on the member-only webpage (link).

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Thursday, September 5 – virtual Social gaggle

Come one, Come all – no need to be a member, or to register. Just drop in!
6:30 – 8:00 pm on Zoom

Sometimes the best tips and strategies come from a family historian sitting next to you! Perhaps another IGSI friend finally figured out how to do the thing you’re struggling with… or never thought of. Learn, share, and be inspired from each other! Bring your successes, challenges, questions, and interesting stories to our IGSI Social Gaggle!

We’ll start out with a short live demo using FamilySearch.org to make sure you are aware of some little-known but very helpful tree insights, as well as amazing recent AI tools that unlock millions of source documents in their collection that have not been indexed or transcribed. Following that segment, we’ll open the “floor” to share or query the “brain trust” in this session. Join our virtual coffee klatsch of genealogists. Feel free to share this event with your friends.

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 884 4641 7783

Passcode: 686746

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Are you within driving distance of the Twin Cities?

Meet, learn, socialize, and see our library by attending in-person!

IGSI’s September and October webinars will include a live audience at the Minnesota Genealogy Center in Mendota Heights. Linger after the presentation for networking over lunch. When you register you have the option of ordering a box lunch.

If you have not yet visited our library’s Irish collection, these will be perfect opportunities to see how our Irish collection could help your research efforts!

The Minnesota Genealogy Center is located in Mendota Heights near the MSP airport and Mall of America map

Registration for the live audience is currently limited to 40 people. Brief tours of the Hoffman Research Library will be offered following the program for those interested. Members of any MGS-affiliated Society have free access until closure at 4pm, and guests can stay for a $10 fee.

There is no limit to the number of virtual webinar participants. Hybrid programs will allow virtual attendees to unmute their microphone and camera to interact with the speaker for questions or discussion following the presentation.

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Saturday, September 28 at 10:30 am – a hybrid webinar

What is Your “Brick Wall”? A panel discussion.

presented by Tom Rice, CG and Kathy Lund

a hybrid event with a live audience in Mendota Heights, Minnesota
$15 for IGSI members; $20 for non-members

Ugh!!! You may have reached a point in your research that you can’t seem to get beyond. This can be so frustrating! Let experts Tom Rice and Kathy Lund help you move forward with new strategies and tactics. Examples galore will inspire you to break down those walls in your family tree. Don’t miss this! It’s just what you need as we head inside from all our summer activities. Can’t attend on September 28? Register anyway and get a free link to the recording and handout.

Register here: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/your-brick-wall

The member Discount Code is posted on the member-only webpage (link).

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Saturday, October 19 at 10:30 am - a hybrid webinar

Genealogy Detective Skills: Following Clues from the Census

presented by Jay Fonkert, CG

a hybrid event with a live audience in Mendota Heights, Minnesota

$15 for IGSI members; $20 for non-members 

Irish soda bread… yum! Census records don’t sound quite as tasty but everyone doing research on their Irish ancestors needs to be able to use census records to anchor your ancestors in a time and place, and also get clues to family migrations, friends, and neighbors.

Let Jay Fonkert help you creep back in time so you can finally “jump the pond” to those who came before them.

Can’t attend on October 19? Register anyway and get a free link to the recording and handout.

Register here: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/census-records

The member Discount Code is posted on the member-only webpage (link).

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Registration will open soon for these fall Saturday morning virtual webinars:

• November 16 - Natalie Bodle
  Ancestor Research Using Irish Newspapers and Other Printed Material
• December 7 – Archeology Professor Thomas Finan
  Archaeology in Ireland

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Novice genealogists create their own “brick walls”
by not locating all the records that may be relevant to the research
question and ultimately missing those needed to solve the problem.
Angela Packer McGhie, cited on page 17 by ES Mills & RB Lennon,
Tips & Quips for the Family Historian, 2017, Genealogical Publishing Co.

Education Team: Trish Little-Taylor & Walt Rothwell
Irish Genealogical Society International
1385 Mendota Heights Road Suite 100
Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120 • USA

Visit our website at: www.irishgenealogical.org

You can reach the IGSI Education team at Education@IrishGenealogical.org