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New NIFHS online services with PayPal facility:
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Available: The Society's publications
can be ordered using an online order form which enables payment by PayPal
or UK Sterling cheque - click here.
2011 Associate Membership forms online now
2011 Associate membership forms are online now in a range of formats (paying by PayPal: online format; or paying by UK Sterling cheque: Word format and web format). See: http://www.nifhs.org/assoc.htm
Best Website Award 2010 - 2nd Place:
We are delighted that the Society has been awarded 2nd Place in the 'UK Large Societies' Class of the Best Website Award 2010 by the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS). This is the second year running that NIFHS has won this award. For further details and a photograph of the Award being presented to Randal Gill, President of NIFHS, see: http://www.ffhs.org.uk/awards/web/current.php
NIFHS Research Centre:
Opening hours: as normal. For other details about the Research Centre, see Research Centre.
NIFHS competition winners:
1st Ruth Watson, Yorkshire; 2nd Margaret Williams, Ontario; 3rd Maureen Waugh, Leicestershire;
Highly commended Heather Baird; Commended Christine McCafferty and Chris Kirkpatrick.
NIFHS Research Centre:
Opening hours: as normal. For other details about the Research Centre, see Research Centre.
NIFHS newsletter: 'News 45' back issues now online:
Previous issues of News 45, the Society newsletter, and an Index are also now available online. See: newsletters: News 45
NIFHS: Bookmark and Share toolbar now online:
A Bookmark and Share toolbar has been added to our Home page. This is a globally recognized bookmarking and sharing service, providing our website visitors with an easy way to save/bookmark and share/distribute our content to their favourite social destinations (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google etc). (Hover over the toolbar button and the toolbar appears.) See: Home (Share button)
NIFHS Officers at WDYTYA? Fair in Olympia:
Six Society Officers attended the WDYTYA? Fair in Olympia from 26th -28th February. They had a very busy event and at times all six were occupied with attending customers and answering queries. They were very pleased with sales and the interest shown in the Society. See: Photo Gallery
JSTOR 'Ireland Collection' available for members online:
Society membership brings with it two issues of the journal North Irish Roots each year.
We have now arranged for members to have online access to all the back numbers of the journal and, indeed, to a wide range of other publications of Irish interest. JSTOR is a subsidiary of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that digitally preserves scholarly publications for use by researchers. JSTOR, in collaboration with the Queen's University of Belfast, has recently been digitizing many journals and other materials, some dating back to the 18th century, to form The Ireland Collection. This includes North Irish Roots (but there is a "moving wall" which means that the issues of the most recent three years will not yet be available online). The Society has arranged with JSTOR that all of our members who, in their most recent membership forms, have specified an e-mail address will be able to register for free access to all of The Ireland Collection. Members who gave an email address will receive an e-mail from JSTOR with instructions on how to register; if you do not wish to avail of this opportunity simply ignore the e-mail. If you choose to register you will have free access to all the publications while you remain a member of NIFHS. JSTOR provides good facilities for searching The Ireland Collection or for browsing individual issues of journals.The Society welcomes this collaboration with JSTOR for several reasons. Firstly, this is a useful resource for our members as it makes available a wealth of material that otherwise might be difficult to find. Secondly, it makes our members' interests available to a very wide range of people, who may have similar interests and thus may be able to help our members. Thirdly, it provides excellent worldwide publicity for the Society. Fourthly, it will in due course bring in revenue to the Society for, although access to The Ireland Collection is free to our members, it is available to libraries and other users on subscription. To see the list of publications in The Ireland Collection, go to JSTOR: Ireland Collection. We hope members will find this new resource useful.
New CDs available:
"On The Shining Bann": available soon on CD. This is a CD of the 1928 book by R. M. Sibbett. See our Publications section for details.
"Carved in Stone": the first book published by the Society in 1994, is now available on CD. See our Publications section for details.
Calendar of NIFHS meetings:
An online calendar of NIFHS meetings is now available. See our Meetings Calendar for details.
PRONI:
On 3rd September 2009 Nelson McCausland MLA, Minister for DCAL, announced that PRONI, now housed at 66 Balmoral Ave., would close to the public from October 2010 until May 2011, to facilitate the removal of the records to the new premises currently being constructed at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. As this will have considerable impact on research in Northern Ireland, the Society has made representations to PRONI and the Minister on behalf of our members. It is possible that an off-site location may be found temporarily for sources such as microfilms. Some PRONI records are now available on the PRONI web site http://www.proni.gov.uk/ The annual closure of PRONI this year will take place from Monday 23rd November 2009 until Friday 11th December 2009. Further details can be found on PRONI website, and if you wish to have updates sent directly to you then join their e-mail list.
Award 2009 - 2nd Place:
We are delighted that the Society has been awarded 2nd Place in the Large Societies Class of the Best Website Award 2009 by the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS).
WW11 documents:
One of our members, Noel Redmond, has acquired a set of WW11 documents relating to a Robert Dunbar from Co. Monaghan. Three in all - NI. Residence Permit Card, Travel Permit between Ireland (Eire) and the UK and Travel permit for GB, EIRE and NI. Mr Dunbar worked for a while in Belfast.
Noel would be pleased to give these documents to anyone who could prove a true relationship with Mr Dunbar. Contact Noel direct at noel@redmond7746.fslife.co.uk
Look-Ups:
Our volunteers who have been working on church records have recently recorded Glastry and Portaferry Methodist Circuit: Baptisms 1879-1945; Marriages 1864-1937 and Newtownards Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church: Baptisms 1827-1913; Marriages 1827-1919; Burials 1898-1923. and these are now available to members. A full list of the churches (now many with photos of the church) and graveyards is available here.
The Society has been awarded 2nd Place in the UK Large Societies Class of the Best Website Award 2010 by the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS). See: www.ffhs.org.uk/awards/web/current.php
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