DIASPORA OF THE WILD ATLANTIC WAY, ENNIS, SEPTEMBER 23RD TO 24TH

We have a wonderful line up of speakers confirmed and it promises to be a wonderful opportunity to listen to eminent speakers and meet with fellow genealogists. 

Friday will host the opening night exhibition with a talk by Dr Gavin Wilk.

It will be Dick Eastman's first trip to Ireland, while Dr Bruce Durie from Scotland and John Grenham will have great information for beginners and established family historians. 

Pauleen Cass who is travelling from Australia will discuss her research about East Clare emigration to Australia.

There is something for everyone. So keep the dates free and email your friends too.

Our booking system will soon be available as will the full conference programme.

The Venue is Treacys West County Hotel in Ennis.

Clara Hoyne
Clare Roots Secretary
Remember to like us on facebook: Clare Roots Society

Hosting our third International Family History Conference in Ennis, 23rd-24th September 2016.

‘DIASPORA OF THE WILD ATLANTIC WAY’

‘Diaspora of the Wild Atlantic Way’ 

Family History Conference in Ennis, Co Clare, September 2016

The third International family history conference Diaspora of the Wild Atlantic Way will take place in Ennis on the 23^rd to 24^th September 2016. The main theme of the conference is the movement and migration of people from the west coast counties of Ireland to Scotland, Britain and beyond. It will also address emigration after 1916 and will feature a focus on genealogy in the future. The event brings together experts and family historians from around the world to share their knowledge and expertise. The Society has diaspora members in Europe, America and Australia and beyond and many of them are travelling to the event. While it will appeal to individuals from any of the counties along the western seaboard and throughout Ireland, it also will be of interest to researchers of local and family history. 

Hosted by the Clare Roots Society, who are celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2016, the keynote speaker will be renowned author and genealogy blogger Dick Eastman from the USA, who is making his first trip to Ireland. Dick is the author of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter which is published daily and has been involved in genealogy for over 30 years. 

Our opening lecture.... on Friday the 23^rd of September is by

Gavin Wilk, independent historian based in County Tipperary. From the Rising to Refuge: America and the Irish Revolution in this centenary year addresses those who left Ireland after 1916 and their experience in America. An exhibition of emigrant’s stories will also be displayed on the night followed by a short talk by Mike Feerick of Ireland Reaching Out will officially launch the conference. The evening will conclude with the conference dinner. 

Another confirmed speaker at the event will be the famous Scottish genealogist and author of over 30 books, Dr. Bruce Durie who is currently a Fulbright scholar in the USA researching migration. He will speak on Irish emigration to Scotland. Dr. Durie is Honorary Fellow in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies within the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.  

Author and genealogist John Grenham will share his experience of researching emigration from the west of Ireland. Known for his weekly column in the Irish Times, he has researched, written and lectured on genealogy in Ireland for over thirty years. 

Travelling from Australia to speak at our conference is Pauleen Cass who is a researcher and blogger, Blogging at: Family History Across the Seas. She will discuss the reasons why emigrants chose Australia over America and other destinations and has a particular research interest in people who left from East Clare. 

The conference will take place in Treacys West County Hotel in Ennis. Special accommodation rates are available for conference attendees. Please mention the Clare Roots Society when booking. 

For further details contact secretary @clareroots.org.

CLARE CHATTER John Grenham recommends IRISH GENEALOGY NEWS

JOHN GRENHAM'S TOP SITE FOR IRISH GENEALOGY

http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/

Clara Hoyne
Clare Roots Secretary
Remember to like us on facebook: Clare Roots Society

Hosting our third International Family History Conference in Ennis, 23rd-24th September 2016.

IRISH ROOTS: WHY WE LOVE HERITAGE WEEK

IRISH ROOTS: WHY WE LOVE HERITAGE WEEK

Author : John Grenham.. The Irish Times

"It would be nice to think that the reason for the huge success of National Heritage Week in Ireland is our deeply-ingrained respect and love for everything our ancestors left us. 

But we really have very little sentiment about what we’ve inherited. Since the start of the 20th century, we’ve shed a national language and a national religion, three currencies, membership of a kingdom, an empire and a commonwealth and demolished more great houses than you can shake a shillelagh at. 

And since the start of the 21st century, we’ve reinvented ourselves over and over, as business moguls, four-hour commuters, consumerist party animals, rock stars, gay reality-show celebs, and penitent capitalists.

So what explains our enthusiasm for Heritage Week? Part of it must be the chance to get into so many buildings usually closed to us – all-consuming curiosity about the neighbours being a vital part of the Irish national psyche (and also a sadly unacknowledged motivator behind a lot of genealogy).

But the real reason is, I think, more banal............."

 For the rest of the story, please use the link below...

Irish Roots: Why we love Heritage Week

CRS NEWS - YIN AND YAN: John Grenham

CRS NEWS - YIN AND YAN

The Clare Roots Society is delighted this week to have John Grenham write about our activities. If you are in Dublin and have access to the NLI or in Clare and would like to volunteer for the Clare champion transcription project, please get in touch. Also a reminder of  details of our next meeting. 

Clare Roots Society Meeting.

Thurs. 16^th April at 8pm. in The Old Ground Hotel

Lecture by Dr. Catherine O'Connor

Dr. O'Connor is a local historian who has published widely in the areas of social and oral history. Currently Project Manager with the University of Limerick Oral History Project, she also teaches in Dublin City Library and Archives. Catherine is a member of Clarecastle & Ballyea Heritage & Wildlife Team. She acted as researcher and coordinator in a field names project in the parish which resulted in the publication of a book, Land & People. Catherine will talk on the methods used in that research and in similar projects around the country, reflecting on the value of collecting the names and stories and their contribution to genealogy and local history.

Admission is free for members and €5 for non-members.  New members are always welcome. 

Clara Hoyne
Clare Roots Secretary
Remember to like us on facebook: Clare Roots Society Facebook

There is also a Facebook Co Clare Group for those interested in Co Clare in general and family history in particular.

County Clare Ireland Genealogy

JOB HUNTING?

Irish Roots: Godzilla next door

John Grenham

• Topics:
• Culture
• Heritage
• Irish Roots
• Godzilla
• Ancestry

When Godzilla moves in next door, some nervousness is understandable. So the recent news that Ancestry.com is looking to employ professional genealogists in Dublin has caused some very reasonable twitchiness among Irish professionals. American big business has a long history of competing independent Mom-and-Pop outfits into the ground, assimilating them and replacing them with corporate replicants. Is that what’s going to happen to Irish genealogy?

For the rest of the story, please go to...

Irish Roots: Godzilla next door

 Thanks to John Grenham...

JOHN GRENHAM: ONLINE GENEALOGY.. IS IT THE BEST EVER?

IRISH ONLINE GENEALOGY

JOHN GRENHAM: FINDING YOUR IRISH ANCESTORS ONLINE...DERRY CENTRAL LIBRARY

BOOK WEEK / ENNIS BOOK CLUB / CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FAMILY HISTORY?

John Grenham

Venue: Old Ground Hotel
Saturday 7th March at 11.30am

PRE-1901 CENSUSES LAUNCHING TODAY.. Irish Times

With Thanks to John Grenham for bringing this to our attention....

Irish Roots

Pre-1901 censuses launching today

After the National Archives first came out with its superb 1901 and 1911 census website (genealogy.nationalarchives.ie), a few innocent souls asked me when all the other Irish censuses from the 19th century would be going online. They’ll have their answer today.

This evening at 5.30pm, the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will be launching all of the Archives’ pre-1901 census holdings on the website. Before you swoon in ecstasy, let me clarify.

True censuses were taken in Ireland every 10 years from 1821, a full two decades before anywhere else in what was then the United Kingdom.

By the time the 1911 census had been completed, there were full sets of no fewer than eight censuses in existence, the earliest four transferred to the Public Record Office, the others still held by the Office of the Registrar-General, the body responsible for census-taking after 1851.

Then things started to go horribly wrong. ......

for the full article, please go to...

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/irish-roots-1.1774013

irishroots@irishtimes.com irishtimes.com/ancestor

BACK TO OUR PAST... John Grenham

 

Irish Roots: Back to our past
John Grenham

The Senior Times is an Irish publication aimed at people old enough not to get annoyed at such euphemisms as “third age” and “golden years”. It is very successful. The publishers behind it also run the Irish franchise for the “Over 50s Show”, a consumer event staged at different venues around the country over the course of the year, and also very successful.

This year’s Dublin show, running from Friday 18 October to Sunday 20 October at the RDS is its fourteenth in a row, and likely to be the biggest yet, topping 25,000 attendees.

A large reason for the success of the Dublin event is the way the organisers mix in smaller shows that appeal to sub-groups of its main audience. The Coin and Stamp Fair is one. But the biggest is “Back To Our Past”, a genealogy event started four years ago that has now grown to be the main public face of Irish family history. It hosts professionals, publishers, websites, software and hardware providers, libraries and institutions, and provides a unique opportunity to engage face-to-face with everyone in Ireland involved in the area.

For the full story, please go to


http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/irish-roots-back-to-our-past-1.1550469

 

JOHN GRENHAM... The Revolution in Irish Newspaper Research

The revolution in Irish newspaper research

September 30, 2013 @ 9:08 am | by JOHN GRENHAM

For a long time, the advice to anyone who wanted to use newspapers for genealogical research was simple: don't. Without a historically prominent ancestor, the likelihood of finding something useful was infinitesimal, but the investment of time was huge. Inevitably, whether you look at Faulkner's Dublin Journal for 1740 or The Evening Press of 1940, you just end up reading the paper. Very enjoyable, but not the most productive use of research time.

Digitisation completely changed that balance. If you can trawl 100 years of papers in five seconds, why not? An example: The Irish Times of January 5th, 1880, has a report of a court case in Ballinasloe at the height of the Land War. There, listed among the 27 small tenants charged with riot for assaulting a bailiff in the course of an attempted eviction, is my great-grandfather and what looks like his entire extended family. I had no idea there was anything like this in our past. It emerged only because the paper was now digitally searchable.

For the full article, please go to the link below...

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/irishroots/

How did you start your family history research? 

Was it in dusty libraries, the type where an exclamation of delight, or a cough, was greeted by a very strong look or admonishment from a serious librarian... or did you start in the days of the internet, perhaps in earlier times when there were little resources available?

I would love you to comment and share your experiences... share how you research today, what your most exciting find has been...

Have you ever commissioned a report by a professional, or perhaps, a not so professional organisation or individual? 

No names please, just experiences...

John Grenham says it well, as always...

Irish Roots: The bad old days of commissioned research

I started doing commissioned genealogical research back in 1982, God help me, working first for the old Genealogical Office and later for Hibernian Research. Both were loose arrangements, to put it mildly; research was unsigned and secretarial staff provided a buffer between researchers and clients. And a buffer was essential.

In the majority of cases, clients would know only the county of origin of their ancestors, if they knew that much, and we employed much ingenuity in trying to narrow the focus of research: cross-referencing surnames in property taxes, hunting down unusual forenames, picking out younger family members in General Register Office records (in the basement of the Custom House at that time, and where you could feel free to light up).

But, inevitably, much of the research was unsuccessful. Hence the need for a buffer. And hence, too, written reports that had to be scrupulous to the point of pain, listing, describing and justifying every source consulted.

For the full article, please go to the link below...

http://tinyurl.com/py79qkx