Irish Lives Remembered - Spring edition now freely available online

The latest edition of Irish Lives Remembered is now free to view online at https://irishlivesremembered.ie.

Welcome to the Spring 2020 issue!
Welcome to a packed Spring 2020 issue! American comedian Tig Notaro has her Irish roots revealed by Fiona Fitzsimons. Christine Deakin gives sage advice on document preservation. Paul MacCotter explores the ancient Doherty surname, and Maurice Gleeson offers expert insight on using your DNA “ethnicity estimate” to guide your research.

This issue comes out during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak – Stay safe everyone. And enjoy this bumper issue.

Articles:
Fiona Fitzsimons – Finding Tig Notaro’s Irish Roots
Paul MacCotter – The O’Doherty (and the O’Doorty) Surname
Maurice Gleeson – Using Ancestry.com’s “Ethnicity Estimate” to Focus Your Irish Research
Andrew Kane – The North of Ireland Family History Society: Forty Years Together
Mark Grace – Genetic Genealogy and the “The West Cork DNA & Family History Symposium”
Christine Deakin – The Preservation of Documents, Photos and Memorabilia
Maureen Wlodarczyk – It’s Never Too Late: An Irish-American Nonagenarian Discovers Her County Laois Roots
Nathan Mannion – Don Juan Morfa: Irish Spy in the Caribbean
Eamonn Kelly – The Enchanted Cow in Irish Tradition
Brigit McCone – Irish Orientalism
Fiona Fitzsimons – The Dr Bríd McGrath Fellowship for Independent Scholars: An Interview with Bríd McGrath
Patrick Roycroft – Herstory: Ireland’s Epic Women TV series and “Blazing a Trail” Exhibition. The Opening Event
Penny Walters – Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy (2019) [Book Excerpt]

Regular columns:
Dear Genie (Our Genealogists help you with your research block)
Photodetective (Jayne Shrimpton analyses one of your family photos)
Patrick's Page (Patrick Roycroft deals with a client at the Irish Family History Centre)
FMP Roundup (Niall Cullen lets us know of the new Irish genealogy records that have been added to Findmypast)

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.