St Patrick’s Day specials have begun! The following comes from the Irish Family History Foundation:

Researching Your Emigrant Ancestors in Irish Records
Free Online Workshop

Friday 13 March, 16:00-17:00 (GMT)
10:00am (CDT)

Over the centuries, millions of people have left  Ireland for a new life in another part of the world. With a particular focus on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this illustrated presentation explores how we can find out more about our emigrant ancestors from Irish records. The talk will highlight the potential value of church records, census returns, landed estate papers, testamentary papers, workhouse records, gravestone inscriptions, newspapers and Valuation records, to name a few, in helping us to understand when, where, why and how our ancestors left these shores.

Presented by Dr William Roulston, Research Director of the Ulster Historical Foundation, this lecture is free to attend but registration is advised to secure your place.

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The talk will be also be recorded for those of you unable to join live.