Irish records, resources and genealogy

Irish records, resources and genealogy

The complete schedule for the Ulster Historical Foundation's 2023 tour was included in an earlier blog posting. However, at least one of the talks by Fintan Mullin and Gillian Flynn is free and can be attended online or in person on Monday, March 13, 2023.

Thanks to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society for making this available. 

For more information and to register, click here.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE -- Subject to Change

10 - 11am (EDT) An introduction to the archives in Ireland and their websites
11am - 12pm A review of records for genealogical research, including church records, administrative records, vestry minute books, and communicant roll
12 - 12:45pm Break for lunch
12:45 - 1:45pm How to use printed sources for Irish family history, including street directories, newspapers, Ordnance Survey Memoirs, British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, and the Irish Manuscripts Commission
1:45 - 2:45pm How to use landed estate records to trace families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2:45 - 3:45pm Sources for finding 17th-century families in Ireland, including records from the Ulster Plantation

Program Support

This program is brought to you with support from the Ulster Historical Foundation and the Government of Ireland’s Emigrant Support Programme. It is also supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.