March 15: Intro to Irish Genealogy - with Kerri Tannenbaum

Name: March 15: Intro to Irish Genealogy - with Kerri Tannenbaum
Start: 2025-03-15T10:45:00-04:00
Location: Freeport Memorial Library

Schedule

Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 at 10:45 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Freeport Memorial Library | Freeport, NY

March 15 - Intro to Irish Genealogy - with Kerri Tannenbaum
This presentation is open to all Members and Guests. It will be held in person at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick Road, NY 11520, and virtually via Zoom.
For non-members, please go to IFHF.org (home page). Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link to register for this presentation. If the link has not been posted yet, please check back; it will be.

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The Irish Family History Forum offers nine (9) world-class Irish Genealogy lectures in person and on ZOOM. Handouts and most of our presentations are recorded and available to our members for viewing on our website for a limited time after the original presentation.

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March 15
Intro to Irish Genealogy - with Kerri Tannenbaum - Hybrid Meeting.

Are you new to Irish genealogy research? Or do you need to brush up on some basics? At our St. Patrick’s Day meeting, Forum member Kerri Tannenbaum will provide an introduction to Irish genealogy. While the talk will be aimed at new researchers, it will have something for all.
A professional genealogist and researcher, Kerri Tannenbaum graduated from Boston University’s Certificate Program in Genealogical Research and the ProGen Peer Study Groups. Kerri serves as contributing editor of the Newsletter and runs her own company, Family Dot Connector LLC.
*Upcoming Presentations

April 19
NYC's Immigrant Savings Bank Records - with Katherine R. Wilson
Katherine Willson will discuss the reasons behind the formation of New York’s Emigrant Savings Bank, which was geared toward Irish emigrants. She will then talk about the valuable genealogy information recorded in the bank's records and where to find copies of these records, both online and offline.
Willson has lectured at regional and national events and is a full-time
researcher for clients and has taught genealogy courses for over 25 years. She is a past president of the Michigan Genealogical Council and a past board member of the Association of Professional Genealogists.

May 17
Transforming of the Irish Image - with Marion Casey
It only took a century or so for phrases like “No Irish Need Apply” to segue into “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” in American popular culture. Casey’s book The Green Space examines the factors contributing to remaking the Irish image from a downtrodden and despised people to universally acclaimed. According to Casey, as “Irish” evolved between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, a visual and rhetorical expanse for representing ethnicity opened up. In this evolution, both Ireland and the U.S. were linked to how versions of “Irish” were deployed over time—was it a straightforward noun about a specific people, or was it a loose, malleable adjective only slightly connected to actual ethnic identity?
Marion R. Casey is a clinical professor of Irish studies at Glucksman Ireland House NYU and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of History at New York University. She is co-editor of Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (2006).

June 21
Follow Your Family through Their Chain Migration - with Kevin Cassidy
The average Irish immigrant arrived in the U.S. with help. He likely followed an existing chain of relatives, friends, and neighbors who had crossed the pond. This talk details how to find the pathway and track one’s family back to the parish of origin.
Forum member Kevin Cassidy is an avid researcher and lecturer on genealogy topics. He has spoken across the U.S., Ireland, and Canada. Cassidy has traced his family tree back to the townlands of origin for all eight of his great
September 20
Irish Schools Collection - with Jill Williams
In the late 1930s, more than 50,000 children in 5,000 primary schools in the Irish Free State were enlisted to collect folklore in their home districts. This included oral history, topographical information, folktales and legends, riddles and proverbs, games and pastimes, trades and crafts. The children recorded this material from their parents, grandparents, and neighbors, and it can now be found—and searched—in the Irish Schools’ Collection at www.duchas.ie. Jill Williams will discuss this underused resource and encourage our members to delve into it.

Jill Williams has been teaching family history courses for over two decades. She was a longtime volunteer in the library of the Irish Genealogical Research Society in London and is a fellow of the society.

October 18 - to come

November 15
Old Irish Surnames - with Irene Morgan
Your brick wall could be a modern-day blind spot in surname pronunciation or spelling. Old Irish surnames are living, breathing entities that have shape-shifted and evolved across generations. Discover how to navigate mysterious spelling variants and aliases to trace elusive family names back to Ireland.
Irene Morgan, a native Irish speaker, is the resident genealogy writer for Ireland Reaching Out and the founder of Irish Quest. In January, she spoke to the Forum about Irish forenames and nicknames.

Members, thank you for your support, 30+ years and counting!
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