The Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook, Illinois hosted an all-day Irish genealogy workshop on Saturday with the Ulster Historical Foundation, and it was broadcast live. The really good news is that the library has made available on YouTube the recordings of all six presentations.
The presentations are:
- Introduction to Irish and Scots-Irish Research (1 hour)
- Understanding Irish Townlands: the Importance of Place, Identity and Administrative Divisions (1 hour)
- Church Records for Use in Genealogical Research Including Lesser Known Administrative Records – Vestry Minute books, Communicant Rolls, etc (1 hour)
- Using Printed Sources for Irish Family History: Newspapers, Street Directories, Ordnance Survey Memoirs and British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland (1 hour)
- Using Landed Estate Records: Tracing Families in the 18th and 19th Centuries (1 hour)
- Law and Order Records in Ireland (30 minutes)
- Question and Answer Session (includes online database lookups) (30 minutes)
Links to the videos and several handouts are available on the Fountaindale Public Library website.
No word on how long these presentations will be available on YouTube.
While on the library’s website, scroll further down to find the three earlier presentations delivered as part of In Sickness, In Health, In Handwriting.
