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Researching
Your Irish
and Scots-Irish
Ancestors Workshop |
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| Location |
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| Registration
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| Samford University |
| Schedule |
| Ulster Historical Foundation
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| UHF
Database |
Samford
University
Birmingham, Alabama
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May 2, 2003
8:00 a.m. -
4:00 p.m.
Room 235
Samford University Library |
| Leaders |
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| Brian Trainor is currently Research Director of the Ulster Historical
Foundation. Formerly Director of the Public Record Office of Northern
Ireland and Chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission he has also held
a lecturing post in history at Queen's University, Belfast and a
fellowship with the Institute of Historical Research, London. Educated at
St Columb's College, Derry and Queen's University, Belfast, he holds a 1st
Class Honours degree in History and has been awarded a Doctorate of
Letters from the University of Ulster and a Doctorate of Law from the
National University of Ireland. |
| Fintan Mullan is currently Executive Director of the Ulster Historical
Foundation being responsible for the general management of the
organisation. He has spoken widely on computerized sources for Irish
genealogy, both in Ireland and internationally at conferences and
festivals. Educated at Queen's University, Belfast, he holds a BSSc.
Honours degree in Irish Politics and Philosophy and an MSSc in
Organisation and Management. |
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| Schedule |
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| 8:00-8:30 |
Registration, Coffee, Welcome |
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| 8:30-9:30 |
Introduction to Irish and Scots-Irish Family History
Research |
Fintan
Mullan |
| 9:30-10.30 |
Irish and Scots-Irish Research: Not always at the bottom of
the pile |
Dr Brian Trainor
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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| 10:45-11.45 |
Emigration from the North of Ireland to North America in the
Eighteenth Century' (the story of the Scots-Irish) |
Dr Brian Trainor
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| 11:45-1:00 |
Lunch |
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Video Presentation: 'Searching for your
Ancestors in Ireland: A professional guide' |
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| 1:00-2:00 |
Illustrated talk on the main archives and heritage centres
in Ireland |
Dr
BrianTrainor |
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| Annotations to Irish church records with particular focus to
Catholic records |
Fintan
Mullan |
| 2:00-3:00
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Landed Estate Records
as a Source for the Family Historian in Ireland |
Dr
BrianTrainor |
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| Demonstration of
Computer Software and CDROMS for use in Irish Family History
Research |
Fintan
Mullan |
| 3:00-4:00
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Question and Answer
Session |
Dr Brian Trainor
and Fintan Mullan |
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UHF
Database
Since 1990 the Foundation has been
compiling a major computerised archive of Irish genealogical records, such
as church and civil records of baptisms/births and marriages (for counties
Antrim and Down) plus gravestone inscriptions (for most of Northern
Ireland). The database also includes records for the whole of Ireland. For
example it includes muster rolls 1640, hearth money rolls 1660s, and lists
of Protestant householders 1740 for all of Ulster. It also includes for
the whole of Ireland the Irish Will Calendars 1858-1900 and 1796 Flax
Growers Bounty List (55,000 names of small farmers). Recently the Surname
Index (names of farmers c.1830 and property occupiers in valuations
1848-64) has been added for the counties of Ulster. Other provinces will
be covered later. It also includes a computerized index to the 10,000+
searches that UHF has carried out on Irish families since 1956 and is the
facility for on-the-spot search assessments that can be extracted from a
new expert system on Irish genealogy. |
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