Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, The Stewart Family of Ballyhivistock, near Dervock by Bruce Clark, Tuesday, 24 June 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, Townlands of the North Coast by Dr Niall Comer, Tuesday, 27 May 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, My life and family. by Graham Kane, Tuesday, 29 April 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Lisburn Branch, Family Hands. Looking at various Ulster American family stories using the song by Mary Chapin Carpenter by Dr David Hume, Tuesday, 8 April 2025 @ 7.30 pm. On site event. Looking at various Ulster American family stories using the song by Mary Chapin Carpenter and the legacy of Mary Snoddy Black in South Carolina. Black collected all the family quilts over generations to help tell the story of their family history. David looks at a goodly number of other family stories under this umbrella,surnames including Donelson, McDowell, Lyle, Witherspoon, Brice and Gilliland among others. Dr David Hume is a well-known local historian, radio and television broadcaster and author of several books including those tracing emigrant histories. He is a prominent figure within the Ulster Scots community and is an Honorary Citizen of Clover, South Carolina. His Knox and Hume ancestors came to Ulster from Scotland in the 17th...
Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, TBC, Tuesday, 25 March 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Larne Branch Poet of Larne and Demerara Slave Plantation Agent (1790s to 1840s) by William McCalmont, on Thursday, 20 March 2025 @ 7.15 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Branch & Society members who wish to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Larne@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Lisburn Branch, CSM William J. McCutcheon MM (1917-45): a Lisburn soldier and the liberation of Europe by Dr James Frazer (Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum), Tuesday, 11 March 2025 @ 7.30 pm. On site event. This talk considers the life and career of ‘Bill’ McCutcheon who grew up in the Smithfield area of Lisburn. He served in the 1st (Airborne battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles during the second world war. Gliding into France by air on D-Day,he later won the Military Medal for Bravery in the Normandy Campaign. He died in March 1945 during Operation Varsity,the crossing of the River Rhine which was a key barrier into Germany. Dr James Frazer is the Research Officer at the Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn...
Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, TBC, Tuesday, 25 february 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Lisburn Branch, Strange and Unusual Sources for Irish Family History by Dr James Ryan, Tuesday, 11 February 2025 @ 7.30 pm. Zoom event. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Lisburn@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link. The historical background to estates and the role of rentals within the estateThe types of rentals used, their formats and the nature of the family history information contained.Where to find them within Irish and other archives and (very occasionally) on-line. Dr James Ryan is a writer and publisher who has been active in Irish genealogy for the past 35 years. He founded Flyleaf Press, which publishes an extensive list of genealogy titles, in 1987. Flyleaf Press is now part of Ancestor Network, a professional research and consulting agency, of which Jim Ryan is a director, and retains the role of managing...
Talk for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch, Townland Atlas of Ulster – by Andrew Kane, Published by UHF by Andrew Kane, Tuesday, 28 January 2025 @ 8 pm. Hybrid event: on site & on Zoom. Those wishing to attend on Zoom should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Causeway@nifhs.org and they will be sent the...
Talk for NIFHS Lisburn Branch, Are you sitting comfortably? Writing up your Family History by Janet Few, Tuesday, 14 January 2025 @ 7.30 pm. Zoom event. Those wishing to attend should e-mail the Branch Secretary at Lisburn@nifhs.org and they will be sent the link. There comes a point in your family history research, when you can look at the piles of paper, or the folders full of computer files, no longer. It is time to stop researching and to try to generate some order out of chaos. This talk provides suggestions that will help you to begin to set your family in their national, local and social context. Janet is an experienced and qualified family, social and community historian who lectures regularly on these subjects throughout the UK and overseas. She has spoken at many national and international genealogical events and is also a wel known...
Members Workshop for NIFHS Causeway Coast & Glens Branch by Martin McDowell, Elwyn Soutter, Andrew Kane & Others, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 @ 8 pm. This will be an on-site event...
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