The talk at the next Foyle Branch meeting will be given by Dr Gordon Millington, retired civil engineer and keen sailor. In the days when all travel and cargo beyond these shores involved ships and boats, safe navigation became a priority. Lighthouses were built and operated in mostly remote, rugged locations which was quite a feat. Dr Millington will talk about the history, construction & operation of lighthouses around this island. 7pm (BST), Monday 5th July. Please email: Foyle@nifhs.org to apply. Open to all. If you are a member of NIFHS, please state your membership number and branch. For everyone joining us, we’d love to know where you are zooming in from. Time zone converter: www.thetimezoneconverter.com/ Foyle Branch webpage: www.nifhs.org/branches/foyle/ Check our calendar regularly to find out about upcoming events. More DNA School info will be out...
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Do you have any ancestors from Islandmagee or do you know anyone who does? If so then we would love you to get involved in our latest research project The aim of the Islandmagee DNA Project is to explore the connections between people who are the descendants of those who lived in the historic North of Ireland parish of Islandmagee in County Antrim, which has strong Scottish and some English connections and a number of families that have lived in the district for generations. By testing people with known connections to the original families we will be able to confirm connections going back many generations, in many instances going beyond paper records. We are working with the local community and have gathered together a team with a lot of experience in carrying out family history research and interpreting DNA test results which will analyze the results and handle queries from matches. The project will allow individuals around the world to identify that they have ancestors from Islandmagee with benefits for tourism, increasing community cohesiveness, and benefiting generations to come as information is identified and made available for further research. View the Islandmagee DNA Group Project on WikiTree. View the Islandmagee DNA Project on FamilyTree DNA.. You can contact us at IslandmageeDNA@nifhs.org Support the Islandmagee DNA Project Go to the General Fund Group Contribution page on the FamilyTreeDNA website for details. Select the project:...
Mr Kevin Doyle has kindly sent the Society a collection of 36 late 18th and early 19th century leases of farmland relating to part of Tynan parish in County Armagh. For the most part the townlands of Drumgose, Skerries and Feigh/Fife are represented. All were held by the Johnston family of Woodpark, Caledon manor. He points out that these “fusty old documents” are almost a census substitute for that little “hook” of Armagh that borders Tyrone and Monaghan for the years covered; even adjoining tenants are shown where maps are attached. Together with the lessors, Johnston or Johnstone, the attorney and his sons, Mitchell, and the surveyors, Fleming, the lessees are Callaghan, Carrole, Connolly, Donaldson, Duffy, Flanagan or Flanigan, Frackleton, Graham, Hughes, Kelly, McCann, McCarney, McCarron or McCoran, McElgrew, McEnally, McNaghten, Moan, Molloy and Traynor. The indentures have been scanned by the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queen’s University of Belfast as part of our NIFHS@40 Anniversary...
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The Society’s Journal, North Irish Roots, Volume 30.2 (Autumn 2019) is out now! Now in our 40th year of promoting and encouraging the private and public study of family history, genealogy, heraldry and local history. Contents Editorial President’s Report Courses and Events Branch Programmes Additions to the Library Be a Recruiting Sergeant Competition Result – Scandal, Surprise, Shock Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace John O’Neil and the Molly Maguires – Betty O’Neil Shocking Accident – Joan Hughes NIFHS@40 Scandal, Surprise, Shock – Frances Maxine (McIntyre) Benson Need Some Ideas? Sally Arsenic – Carmel Wilson B.B.C. The Northern Irish in North America: Three Family Chronicles – Zita Ballinger Fletcher Lisburn – Parish of Blaris DNA – breaking down brick walls (and building new ones). The Bracegirdle Family – Julie Tadman Dobbs Report How We Lived Then – Michael McKeag Add some colour to your life A Family Odyssey – Linda Hooke The Fighting Irish The Thomas Hughes Family Odyssey – Jacqueline Hughes William Marks and Margaret Campbell – (Northern) Ireland to Scotland – Mary Clarke Profile Forms & Contacting Members Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched Register of Reciprocal Research Members’ Interests – Queries More about North Irish Roots North Irish Roots on JSTOR Associate Membership Renewal for 2020 – £18 Using the online PayPal system for renewals helps to speed up processing them. Your continued support of the work of the Society will be greatly appreciated. Thank...
The Society’s Journal, North Irish Roots, Volume 30.1 (Spring 2019) is out now! Contents Editorial President’s Report Raising the Dead Courses and Events, Spring 2019 Additions to the Library Leases – donated by Kevin Doyle Church of Ireland Parish Registers School Records Absent Voters List Family Heirlooms return home to Northern Ireland after 120 Years – donated by June Smith Clonamullog to Canada: an Unlikely Connection – John Maguire Irish Dog Licences Hong Kong & Beyond – Michael McKeag The Royal Victoria Hospital Archibald Hutchinson’s Bequest Commentary on Dobbs’s Report (1796) – Stephen N. Stuart My Family Odyssey – Robert Christie Back To Our Past Obituary – Rosalind Scrine (1942-2019) Samuel Alexander Hill, Meteorologist – Chris Hill Profile Forms & Contacting Members Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched Members’ Interests – Queries Register of Reciprocal Research More about North Irish Roots Associate Membership Renewal Using the online PayPal system for renewals helps to speed up the process of Renewals. Your continued support of the work of the Society will be greatly appreciated. Thank...
The Society’s Journal, North Irish Roots, Volume 29.2 (Autumn 2018) is out now! Contents Editorial Associate Members – Renewal President’s Report 1st October 1918-2018 – 100th Birthday of David Honneyman 4th September 1979 – Inaugural Meeting, North of Ireland Family History Society 8th September 2018 – Inaugural Meeting, South Tyrone Branch Obituary – Jeanne Jordan by Rosemary Sibbett Obituary – Muriel Sherlock by Ann Robinson Obituary – John McCabe by Ann Robinson Courses and Events, Autumn 2018 Competition – Scandal, Surprise, Shock Branch Programmes Additions to the Library From County Down to Down Under – A Modern Migrant’s Voyage into the Unknown … by John Maguire Mrs Copley by Ian Mack The Search for John Moran by Elizabeth Scott A Woman Scorned … – Breach of Promise: Harvey v Johnston by Maggie Johnston Divine Intervention by Marie Crowley A Tragic WW1 Romance Remembered by Trevor Whittley Moore of Grangebawn – An Emigration Story by William Stranney The Mystery of the Postcard Album by Elizabeth Scott Correspondence – Waugh Recent Records Profile Forms & Contacting Members Members’ Interests – Queries Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched Register of Reciprocal Research More about North Irish Roots Associate Membership Renewal Using the online PayPal system for renewals helps to speed up the process of Renewals. Your continued support of the work of the Society will be greatly appreciated. Thank...
The Society’s Journal, North Irish Roots, Volume 29.1 (Spring 2018) is out now! Volume 29.1 – Spring 2018. Contents Editorial President’s Report Money Obituary – John McKee A Programme of Courses for the Spring Irish Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates An Old Ballymacarrett Graveyard – Charlotte Murtagh A Family Secret Revealed – Elizabeth Scott War Memorials NIFHS Research Centre Encounter in Nigeria Demolishes a ‘Brick Wall’ – Elizabeth Scott Finding Your Ancestors – Martin McDowell Maisie & Daisy Additions to the Library 1 & 2 Correction: Members A4262 & A4266 I am a Nevin: the Pedigree of Eliza Hurst – Karen Mather Maisie & Daisy – Answer Recent Records NIFHS Branch Publications NIFHS Research Booklets In the Footsteps of Joseph & Ruthven Emerson – Suzanne Spohn 3 To the Trustees & Governing Body of the Matilda Hospital, Short Summary of Vacation and Study Tour – Howard Montgomery NIFHS County Booklets Story of a Life – Eibhlin Moore Members’ Interests Names Being Researched Members’ Interests – Queries Register of Reciprocal Research Names and Addresses More about North Irish Roots Associate Membership Renewal Using the online system helps to reduce the administration work needed to process the Renewals. Your continued support of the work of the Society will be greatly appreciated. Thank...
How we traced our family tree and unlocked the interesting secrets hidden in our histories, article on the NIFHS in the Belfast Telegraph. Your Family Tree supplement, Belfast Telegraph: packed with information and tips on how to trace your ancestors. Back to Our Past at Titanic Belfast , event website. View the picture album of the NIFHS at Back to our Past on...
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The NIFHS Journal, North Irish Roots Volume 28.2 (Autumn 2017) is out now. Contents Editorial President’s Report Causeway Coast & Glens Genealogy Course Courses and Events, Autumn 2017 Ballymena Family History Fair Branch Programmes Additions to the Library My Family Odyssey – Catherine Quinn NIFHS at Who Do You Think You Are? Live A Short Account from Day to Day of Our Voyage on the S. S. Arawa – Michael Duffy Thom’s Ireland, City and Regional Directories, 1847-1946 C4 Gems – Family Histories Volunteers, Please Maisie’s Illustrated Relatives Jewish Birth, Naming, Marriage & Death Practices – Rivka Goldblatt Do You Know the Jamisons of Mountpottinger, Belfast or Glasgow? – Charlotte Murtagh Betham, Crossle & Thrift Genealogical Abstracts From Corraglass to the Cape Colony – the Life of Loftus Albert Maguire (1881-1942) – John Maguire Review – The Top 300 Surnames of Derry-Londonderry by Brian Mitchell – Brian O’Hara Some Publicans of Carnmoney – Chris Hill Old Photographs Letter from Ceylon – R. H. McKeag Members’ Interests – Names Being Researched Members’ Interests – Queries Names and Addresses Register of Reciprocal Research More about North Irish Roots Associate Membership Renewal An invitation to Renew Associate Membership was included in the Journals sent to Associate Members. Using the online system helps to reduce the administration work needed to process the Renewals. Your continued support of the work of the Society will be greatly appreciated. Best wishes to you for 2018. Thank...
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