Sun, Jun 28
|Virtual Event
British Isles Group: John Grenham Live!
SCGS's Irish and British Isles Interest Groups host John Grenham, Live from Ireland on Sunday, June 28, at 1:30 p.m. PT. John will present "Mapping Ireland's Records."
Time & Details
Jun 28, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM PDT
Virtual Event
About the Event
The Southern California Genealogical Society's Irish Interest Group and British Isles Interest Group will co-host genealogist John Grenham live from Ireland on Sunday, June 28, from 1:30 to 3:30 PT.
About the Presentation
In "Mapping Ireland's Records," John will explore ways in which visualizing the locations of households of particular surnames in Catholic records, valuations, census records, and records of births, marriages, and deaths can help with genealogy and local history, providing vivid examples of just how local some names are and how impossibly widespread others can be. All the records covered are available online and form the basis of almost all nineteenth-century Irish research.
In addition, some of the focus will be on maps of the geographic areas where the records were collected.
John's talk will provide some of the technical background behind creating the maps, but will mostly focus on their use and how they shed light on…