Genealogy à la carte

If you’re reading this blog post Friday morning, March 17, there is still time to register for today’s free Irish-themed webinars, presented by FamilySearch.

11:00 a.m. EDT – Tracing Irish Roman Catholic Ancestry, Phil Dunn, AG®
This webinar provides you with all the outstanding changes and latest advancements that will transform the way you approach your Roman Catholic research in Ireland. Did you know that two iconic websites in a recent collaborative effort have re-shaped how you conduct your research? Phil will unveil all the wonderful details that will help you trace your elusive Irish Catholic ancestors.

12:00 p.m. EDT – Finding Ancestry in Ireland Civil Registration Records, Joni Kesler, AG®
Hear Joni share new and thrilling details about how to approach research in the two Irelands’ richest record sources. Did you know that millions of new name entries are now available online for researching these records? She will instruct us on the best practices for researching these important vital records.

1:00 p.m. EDT – Ireland Census & Census Substitutes, Joni Kesler, AG®
This webinar provides a unique perspective on the value and use of several in-ordinary and under-utilized Irish records. Come and learn the gamut of these important records, especially their research application in the absence of census records generally. This webinar not only instructs on the direct relationship in how to use these to find critical data in other records, but also she’ll identify other records to be used — such as name lists and indexes—for locating and further identifying your Irish ancestral connections.

3:00 p.m. EDT – The Scots-Irish: Plantation and Settlement of Ulster in the 17th Century, David Rencher, AG®, CG, FUGA, FIGRS
This webinar session outlines events surrounding the plantation schemes and the settlement of Northern Ireland from the London Companies and the large landed Estates in Scotland. Come hear David—the Chief Genealogical Officer at FamilySearch International and world renowned Irish genealogical expert—also walk us through the key sources for tracing the Scots-Irish in Ireland and their specific origins in Scotland.

4:00 p.m. EDT – Key Websites for Tracing Ancestry in Ireland, Mark Gardner, AG®
Ireland is continually afire with new emerging, thrilling online offerings — and for several kinds of key genealogical records. Listen as Mark walks us through all the magnificent resources newly available as there are many, and which will totally change the way you approach researching your Irish ancestors.

Register here. Look for the handouts for three of the webinars.

In time for St. Patrick’s Day, the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) announces free access to many of their Irish resources until midnight Eastern time, Wednesday, March 22.

Access requires a free, brief sign-up on AmericanAncestors.org.

Only online source for Boston’s Catholic records
Browse record images of Catholic baptisms, marriages, and more from Boston’s oldest parishes, including the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Holy Trinity. NEHGS is digitizing parish records from 1789 to 1900, a period of significant growth for both Boston’s Catholic Church and the Irish immigrant population.

Search unique collections, such as Irish Immigrant Advertisements, 1831-1920, and the NEHGS-exclusive database The Annals of Beara, The Session Book of Aghadowey, 1702-1725, and others.

This Irish-themed promotion includes an hour-long webinar on NEHGS Irish resources, an online subject guide to locate key resources and records in Irish genealogy, and popular articles from their American Ancestors magazine about Irish and Irish American genealogy.

This blog post is outside the usual realm of genealogy news, but it is about DNA — Canadian DNA. If you are Canadian, hockey is part of your DNA.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the National Hockey League this year, the Pointe-à-Callière museum in Old Montreal is mounting an exhibition on Canada’s national sport — hockey — and they are looking for memorabilia.

The museum would like to borrow collectors’ items from the public. Do you have any memorabilia from the Montreal Canadiens, the Québec Nordiques or other old-time Montreal hockey teams (Maroons, Victorias, etc.) that you would be willing to lend the museum for its exhibition?

The museum is looking for objects, works of art, and photos with links to the players and history and highlights of those teams

Centre Nels “Old Poison” Stewart, Montreal Maroons, c1925-1932. Source: Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum, Toronto, Ontario.

Procedure

• You have one or more items associated with the Montreal Canadiens, the Québec Nordiques, or old-time Montréal hockey teams;
• You are willing to have them displayed in an exhibition;
• You are prepared to lend them to the Museum from October 2017 to May 2018;
• Send a short message describing the item(s) and characteristics (dates, origins, size, etc.), with a photo, to hockey@pacmusee.qc.ca.

This call for items closes on Friday, March 31, 2017. Pointe-à-Callière will select a number of the items offered, and notify their owners. Each lender chosen will receive an invitation to the exhibition preview, and Museum passes for two people.

Note that Pointe-à-Callière reserves the right to refuse any items offered even if they meet the selection criteria, e.g., if a subject has already been thoroughly covered in the exhibition or the space for a given subject is already full.

Send your offers by e-mail only. They cannot accept offers made in person at the Museum.