GSI Online Resources Access to the Society’s Monthly Lectures Presentation No. 1 (2021) www.familyhistory.ie
The Society’s Open Meetings 1991-2020 (The normal meetings were suspended in March 2020 due Covid-19)
Foundation of the Society
Evening Meetings on 2nd Tuesday 9 Apr. 1991
25 Oct. 1990
28 Oct. 1992 – 26 Feb. 2020
9 Apr. 1991 – 10 Mar. 2020
First Open Meeting held in the Victor Hotel
Morning Meetings on 4th Wednesday
First Annual General Meeting October 1991 O Conor Don, First President of the Society & Frieda Carroll, FGSI First Cathaoirleach
General Themes or Subjects Genealogy, DNA & Resources
• Research Tutorials • Record Keeping Methodologies • Introduction to Repositories • Introduction to Resources • Case Studies • Projects (Irish DNA Atlas etc) • Publishing Your Family History
Linked Disciplines & Resources
• Local History • Military History • Irish Police History • Social History • Maps & Land Use Surveys • State & Commercial Records • Inter-disciplinary Studies • Heraldry / Vexillology
So what’s available via the GSI Website? From Dec. 2016 on the GSI YouTube Channel - 40 videos • Genetic Genealogy – 8 videos • Local History – 4 videos • Military & Police History – 5 videos
From Sept. 2020 – ‘Hall’s Index’ is now fully searchable! • Reports on the Monthly Lectures are published in ‘Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette’.
• Web Resources – 8 videos
• Precis of each monthly lecture, many with web references included, from 2006 to the present.
• Church Records – 3 videos
• Fully searchable index 2006 – to date
• Heraldry / Vexillology – 4 videos
• Also, Society Newsletters 1996-2005
• Misc. / Specific Collections – 5 videos
• Direct access to the all of the original publications – Free!
• Biographical – 3 videos
GSI YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGqe3_Od9gfksqocu3YuywQ/videos
Irish DNA Atlas Project & Genetic Genealogy • Eight YouTube Videos (one duplicate) • Nearly 30,000+ visits to these videos • Including circa 17,000 to the first video on the Irish DNA Atlas Project featuring Dr. Edmund Gilbert of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. • Other videos featuring Dr. Maurice Gleeson, Dr. Paddy Waldron, Gerard Corcoran and Mike Mulligan – all experts in the ever-expanding field of Genetic Genealogy. • Special thanks to Séamus O’Reilly, FGSI & his Irish DNA Atlas team.
‘Hall’s Index’ to ‘Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette’ 2006 – to date https://familyhistory.ie/newtheme/gazsrch.php Fourth President of the Society, Stuart Rosenblatt, PC, FGSI, delivering a lecture on his ‘magnum opus’ – researching the ‘Irish-Jewish Archival Heritage’. Soon to comprise twenty-one large volumes..
See: Presentation No. 3 – ‘The Archival History of the Irish Jewish Community’ on www.facebook.com/familyhistory.ie
Go Raibh Maith Agaibh
Thank You
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