BIFHSGO 2021 Virtual Conference - Irish Lines and Female Finds

Frm the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (https://bifhsgo.ca): 

BIFHSGO 2021 Virtual Conference
19–26 September 2021

Irish Lines and Female Finds: Exploring Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy

Speakers: Mia Bennett / Gerard Corcoran / Martin Curley / Brian Donovan / Dr. Janet Few / Mags Gaulden / Dr. Edmund Gilbert / Maurice Gleeson / Roz McCutcheon / Mark McGowan / Chris Paton / Gena Philibert-Ortega / Dr. Jim Ryan / Kyla Ubbink

The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) is pleased to announce its 26th annual family history conference, to be held virtually from 19 to 26 September 2021. Fourteendistinguished international speakers, all experts in their own fields, are featured in 15 presentations over 8 days.

The themes of Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy will be integrated into a range of presentations, including new Irish records, finding female ancestors in archives, the Irish diaspora, DNA in Irish ancestors, researching marginalized women, Irish famine orphans in Canada, and much more.

This year’s conference will also feature a virtual Gathering Place (formerly the Marketplace), where you may make contact with organizations offering products to help your research.

Whether you are brand new to genealogy or a seasoned family historian, this information-filled event will offer opportunities to further your research skills and will inspire you to continue your family history journey. Wherever you are in the world, if you have a good internet connection, you can register and attend our virtual conference.

“We hope you will be as excited by the topics chosen as we are, and that you will come away with great new research paths to explore,” said BIFHSGO President Duncan Monkhouse.

The C$45 conference registration fee includes access to all 15 presentations as well as access to the presentation videos and handouts for two weeks after the conference concludes. Visit our websitefor a full speaker lineup and program details and follow us on FacebookandTwitter.

Register now for BIFHSGO’s virtual conference!

To register, visit https://bifhsgo2021.ca. 

(NB: The full conference programme is outlined at https://bifhsgo2021.ca/program/)

COMMENT: It's been a wee while since I last spoke at a BIFHSGO event, so I am looking forward to this immensely! The following are details of the talk I will be giving on Saturday 25th September 2021:

12:00 – 13:30 Church and State: Ireland’s Vital Records (All levels) with Chris Paton

In this session Chris will explore how to locate ancestors in Ireland using the civil registration records of births, marriages and deaths from 1845 and 1864 onwards, both online and in Ireland itself, as held at both the GROI in Roscommon and the GRONI in Belfast. It will examine what the records contain, how they may assist with research, and how they may be located online and offline via the platforms of the respective General Register Offices and government platforms, north and south. Chris will then look at the various church denominations in Ireland, how they were structured, and the types of records they kept. He will explain how to locate surviving material, to equally identify what has not survived (and why), and to understand where Protestant and Catholic Ireland occasionally overlapped, with the role of the Church of Ireland as the state church. Where gaps in such records exist, Chris will discuss how other sources may be able to provide alternative information to plug those gaps, including resources in Britain.

Should be fun!

(With thanks to Susan Courage)

Chris 

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are 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.