Irish Workhouse and Finding Your Poor Irish Ancestors - with Natalie Bodle
Schedule
Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 10:45 am
UTC-04:00Location
Freeport Memorial Library | Freeport, NY
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May 16 Irish Workhouse and Finding Your Poor Irish Ancestors - with Natalie BodleNatalie Bodle will be presenting from Northern Ireland via ZOOM. As usual, Members and Guests can join us for coffee, tea, and treats while viewing the webinar in person at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick Road, New York 11520.
All Members, near or far, can participate in our monthly meeting via Zoom. Look for your MailChimp email with the registration link attached.
Meeting Schedule: (Eastern Standard Time)
10:00 AM: Meet & Greet
10:15 AM: Ask the Experts Sessions
10:45 AM: Business Announcements (Zoom Presentation Begins)
11:00 AM: Presentation
The Irish Family History Forum is celebrating our 35th anniversary this year! 35 years of helping our Members discover their Irish ancestry. The IFHF offers nine world-class Irish Genealogy lectures, both in person and on ZOOM. Handouts and most of our presentations are recorded and available to our MEMBERS for a limited time on our website after the original presentation.
If you would like to join the Irish Family History Forum, go to: https://ifhf.org/index.php/plans/join-ifhf/
Individual: $30 a year.
Family: two people (one address) - $40 a year
Student (with a student ID) - $15 a year
*Upcoming Presentations
May 16 Irish Workhouse and Finding Your Poor Irish Ancestors - with Natalie Bodle
The Poor Law Act of 1838 established workhouses in Ireland to provide relief to the destitute. The workhouse was designed to be harsh; inmates were separated from family members, forced to do hard labor, and fed scant rations. During the Famine, overcrowding, starvation, and disease led to a massive increase in deaths. Speaker Nathalie Bodle, joining us from Ireland, will discuss records produced by the workhouses, including those for inmates and for staff. She will also cover the 19th–century Poverty Relief Loans, which name both the lender and the guarantor.
Professional genealogist Nathalie Bodle is the author of Tracing Your Family History Using Irish Newspapers and Other Printed Material. Her company, Roots Revealed, is based in Ballymena, Co. Antrim.
June 20 Using AI in Family History Research - with Melanie McComb
Artificial Intelligence seems to be able to do everything from producing digital images to creating songs. It can also help your family history research. In this lecture. Melanie McComb will discuss exciting possibilities for using AI to support your research—including assistance with report writing, digitally restoring photos, and more. And she will address aspects of AI that we should be cautious of, such as accuracy and copyright concerns.
Melanie McComb, a senior genealogist at American Ancestors, is also an international lecturer who teaches on various genealogy topics. An honorary fellow of the blogger, known as The Shamrock Genealogist. Massachusetts Historical Society, she has written for American Ancestors Magazine and Fifty Plus Advocate.
July and August Summer Recess
September 19 Tracing Irish Ancestors from America to Ireland - with Susan McKee
October17
More to come
November 21 Creating Brief Ancestor Sketches - with Devon Noel Lee
December
More to come
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