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Irish Interest Group
Meets: 5th Sunday of the month (check
calendar)
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact:
for more information.
Location: 417 Irving Drive, Burbank, CA 91504
Southern California Genealogy Society building
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The Irish Interest Group meets at the library whenever there
is a fifth Sunday in the month (usually four times a year). On these days we have
the entire library to ourselves from 10:00am - 4:00pm
To find out more about what is happening with the Irish Interest Group, you may
subscribe to the SCGS Irish Interest Group Mailing List. Contact
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Meeting: January 29, 2023, 1-4 p.m. ONLINE
https://meet.goto.com/170016421
You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (224) 501-3412
Access Code: 170-016-421
The January Irish will be a question and answer workshop. Be sure
you are signed up to receive notices. If not, send an email to irishinterestgroup@scgsgenealogy.com
with the word “Join” in the subject and body of the message.
Have your questions ready as this meeting will
be from 1-4PM online, or until you run out of questions. Be sure that you are
subscribed to our mailing list. If you are not, you can subscribe by sending an
email to irishinterestgroup@scgsgenealogy.com
with the word JOIN in the subject and in the body of the email. If you have any
other questions you can also contact me at that address. I hope to see you there,
Marge Golden Rossini.
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Irish Interest Group just keeps on growing at SCGS and we encourage all
of you who have Irish heritage to join us. Our group includes descendants of native
Irish as well as Anglo, Norman, Welsh, and Scots-Irish, and many others.
With over twelve percent of the United States population having
Irish ancestors, and another near two percent with Scots-Irish that's a lot of
Irish cousins out there! Why not come and find one of yours? That has happened
before in this group!
We explore the history of our ancestors as much as we explore
the resources that are available for use in tracking those forebears.
You probably know that it was the Vikings who settled Dublin,
but did you know that the O'Sullivan Clan of southwest Ireland, in the province
of Munster, are descended from the Milesians of the Basque region in Spain?
The Irish Interest Group is here to share knowledge among the
members and to help those new to this area of interest. Where do you look if all
you know is that your great-great-grandfather was born in "Ireland?"
We're here to help. Bring those questions with you when you
come to the next Irish Workshop and we will help you sort them out. We may not
have all of the answers, but we will give it our best try.
Past discussions have covered topics as varied as ancient Celtic
customs, Brehon laws, Penal laws, travel back and forth from Scotland, migration
patterns, the Plantation period, battles, treaties and the effects these have
all had on our ancestors, right up to the present-day topic of DNA.
We mix historical facts with research tips and look at many
new websites and online resources and databases as they become available.
We constantly review what Irish records exist to help in our searches
and what substitute records can be used to fill in the gaps. We explore the new
and exciting ways we have to find those elusive ancestors of ours.
We have a growing collection of books in the Scots-Irish
section. Highlights include:
The Great Book of Irish Genealogies
The Kenmare Manuscripts
MacLysaght's books
1659 Census of Ireland
Casey collection
Famine Immigrants
Irish Passenger Lists
O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees
Gravestone Inscriptions
Plantations in Ulster
Monumental Inscriptions Scotland
Scottish Settlers in North America
Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland
and many, many more.
We invite you to come and see for yourself. Céad
míle fáilte (we welcome you).
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