Irish SIG

Topic: Get Organized: Find Your Missing Irish Ancestor Speaker: Carol Whitton

Irish Round Table Carol Hemmersmeier, Kay Weber, Ken Webb This is your chance to bring your questions and comments about Irish research to some local experts and receive help.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017               Emigration During the Irish Famine Featured Speaker: Gabrielle Woeltje From 1845–1850, more than two million people left Ireland, about one-fourth of its total population. Learn more about this period in Irish history.  

Using sources abroad to identify your ancestors's county of origin. Speaker: Mike Bridwell, St. Louis County Library Did Grandpa forget to mention exactly where in Ireland he came from? Have you exhausted U.S. resources and still no clue? Learn some strategies for locating county of origin in foreign sources.

Tuesday, 24 October 2017     Celebrating Celtic Seasons Featured Speaker: Gabrielle Woeltje Imbolc (spring), bealtaine (summer), lughnasadh (autumn), and samhain (winter) are the four Celtic seasons, each of which contains feast days filled with rituals and traditions.

    Irish: The Movers and the Builders Carol Hemmersmeier, Kay Weber: Speakers Irish immigrants helped build this country, from road builders to bricklayers, to captains of industry.    

    Post Famine Emigration From Ireland Gabrielle Woeltje The famine years did not see the greatest emigration from Ireland. It was the post famine years that had the highest number of emigrants from Ireland.

     Irish Research in the US Carol Hemmersmeier, Kay Weber You have to start here before you can get there. Irish research starts here at home.

    Griffith's Valuation  Mike Bridwell Griffith's valuation is a census substitute for landowners and leaseholders during and after the famine. Learning to use this important resource is essential to Irish research.

The Irish Catholic farmer, for the most part, had no rights to land ownership from the mid-1600s to the early twentieth century. How was this possible and how did it come about? Our speaker will explain how the Anglo-Irish landowners acquired Irish property, and how the lifestyle of those landowners impacted the predominantly Irish Catholic […]