Congratulations to all concerned with the inaugural Clare Roots Society International Genealogy Conference...
Early reports about the conference which has just been completed are all positive... Around 100 attended the conference itself with many of those also attending the Fringe activities...
I will post more when I have more details.
Planning is already underway for the next one... where will you be in 2012? Co Clare will welcome with you with open arms...well done and a great result for all who have worked so hard to bring this to fruition.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Major Genealogy Conference , Co Clare, October 1st, 2011
REMINDER...
CLARE Roots Society is to host a major genealogy and family history conference at the Temple Gate Hotel, Ennis this October.
The conference, with the theme, The Future of our Past will be addressed by leading figures from the world of Genealogy and Family History and will take place on October 1.
The keynote address will be given by Dr Nick Barratt, London, whose talk is entitled Family History and the Media in which he will examine the way genealogy has been transformed over the past five years by TV and the internet. He will go behind the scenes of programmes like Who Do You Think You Are to reveal how they are made and the impact the shows have had on the way people research. Nick Barratt is a TV presenter and commentator. He is editor in chief of Your Family History magazine and chief executive of Sticks Research Agency. He was the original genealogical consultant and lead researcher for BBC’s show Who Do You Think You Are.
John Grenham MA author of Tracing your Irish Ancestors and the writer of the weekly Irish Roots column in The Irish Times will give a talk entitled Jam Tomorrow: What’s online and what’s coming.
Other confirmed speakers include
Jim Herlihy, author of The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men, 1816-1922 who will speak on the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries Dr Jane Lyons, professional genealogist and moderator of a number of genealogy websites Liam Curran, a Clare-based amateur historian who will talk on The Irish Soldier in the British Army in the First World War and Antoinette O’Brien, genealogist and manager of Clare Heritage Centre in Corofin, who will talk about the work of the Genealogy Research Centre and its records.
The conference, with the theme, The Future of our Past will be addressed by leading figures from the world of Genealogy and Family History and will take place on October 1.
The keynote address will be given by Dr Nick Barratt, London, whose talk is entitled Family History and the Media in which he will examine the way genealogy has been transformed over the past five years by TV and the internet. He will go behind the scenes of programmes like Who Do You Think You Are to reveal how they are made and the impact the shows have had on the way people research. Nick Barratt is a TV presenter and commentator. He is editor in chief of Your Family History magazine and chief executive of Sticks Research Agency. He was the original genealogical consultant and lead researcher for BBC’s show Who Do You Think You Are.
John Grenham MA author of Tracing your Irish Ancestors and the writer of the weekly Irish Roots column in The Irish Times will give a talk entitled Jam Tomorrow: What’s online and what’s coming.
Other confirmed speakers include
Jim Herlihy, author of The Royal Irish Constabulary: A Complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men, 1816-1922 who will speak on the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries Dr Jane Lyons, professional genealogist and moderator of a number of genealogy websites Liam Curran, a Clare-based amateur historian who will talk on The Irish Soldier in the British Army in the First World War and Antoinette O’Brien, genealogist and manager of Clare Heritage Centre in Corofin, who will talk about the work of the Genealogy Research Centre and its records.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Clare Roots Society Newsletter August
Each month, I write at least one newsletter for the CRS... though they can be read in their entirety at
clareroots.org/index.php/clare-gene-news
clareroots.org/index.php/clare-gene-news
I will post some of the highlights here for you as well.
Two recently published books
The Great Famine - Ireland's Agony 1845 - 1852 by Ciarán Ó Murchada
published 2011 by Continuum International Publishing Group.
ISBN: HB: 978-1-8472-5217-3
The book contains a fine Prologue on O'Connell's Monster Meeting on 15 June 1843 two miles north of Ennis
The Clare War Dead - a History of the Casualties of the Great War - by Tom Burnell published 2011 by The History Press Ireland
ISBN: 978 1 84588 7032
Drumcliff Cemetery - the Hidden History of Ennis Eric Shaw and Larry Brennan
A new digital atlas is available to trace population movement during Ireland famine. “Two new digitized atlases show the levels of emigration during the Great Famine, right up until the rise of the Celtic Tiger in 2002,
as well as an analysis of Ireland’s population change.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Trace-Irish-Famine-population-with-new-digital-atlas-126827108.html
The National Archives (UK) has announced that their extensive collection of crime, court and convict records will be transcribed, digitised and published online.
http://www.slq.nnub.net/notice/show/3074
Listen online to Associate Professor Grace Karskens from the University of New South Wales as she discusses the convict secrets of The Rocks precinct in Sydney. Afterwards you can test your knowledge
by taking the fun quiz.
Listen online to Associate Professor Grace Karskens from the University of New South Wales as she discusses the convict secrets of The Rocks precinct in Sydney. Afterwards you can test your knowledge
by taking the fun quiz.
The British Library and Google have struck a deal to digitise over 250,000 out-of-copyright books from between 1700 and 1870.
What is Picture Queensland? -
From the Australian War Memorial....
Reports of Proceedings (ROPs) are the official record of activities of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). They were submitted by commanding officers to the Navy Office either monthly or quarterly in both wartime and peacetime.
The ROPs that are open for public access are being scanned progressively and will be added to the website as scanning is completed.
The archival series AWM78 comprises ROPs of HMA Ships and Establishments accumulated from September 1939 onwards.
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