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Irish Genealogy Program - Greenwich Library
Dr. William Roulston is Research Director of the Ulster Historical Foundation, specialising in genealogical research and heritage consultancy. He holds a doctorate in Archaeology from Queen's University, Belfast. He has written and edited a number of books including, (with Eileen Murphy) Fermanagh: History and Society (Dublin, 2004) and Re searching Scots-Irish Ancestors (Belfast, 2005). He has also worked with the BBC on radio and television programmes relating to local and family history and has participated in numerous historical a nd genealogical conferences. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a Member of Council of both the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland and the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society.
Dr. Brian Trainor retired as Research Director of the Ulster Historical Foundation in September 2006. He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, and from there went for a time to the Institute of Historical Research in London. He returned to Belfast where he lectured for several years at Queen's before becoming in 1956 an archivist in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. He was Director of the Public Record Office from 1970 to 1987 when he became Director and then Research Director of the Ulster Historical Foundation. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the National University of Ireland. He has been on over thirty lecture tours to America and has spoken on Irish history and genealogy in over forty states.
Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase useful genealogical publications.
Free admission, Reservations required. Call 203-622-7948, Mr. Carl White, Local History Librarian. Those who already have some information on their Irish or Scot-Irish ancestors should indicate the County, parish, and/or townland of interest when making the reservation.
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Our genealogy group is designed to give members who are interested in family history, opportunities to exchange ideas, learn from experts in the field and to make field trips. We sponsor family history workshops focusing on such topics as using census records, vital statistics, church records, military records, research both here and in Ireland, computer programs and Internet information.
We maintain archival collections and a library of books about Irish history, culture and genealogy at the Ethnic Heritage Center at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT. The library contains many aids for historical and genealogical research, such as a set of old New Haven city directories, New Haven school records, personal interest collections and family histories that have been donated to us by Irish people throughout Connecticut.
The CTIAHS (Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society) has established a link with the Irish Ancestry Group in the Genealogical Society of Victoria, Australia. The Irish Ancestry Group has access to many Australian genealogy resources and will help any of our members who are looking for information about relatives in the "Land Down Under". We will do the same for them. We are also collecting information from our members who have relatives, distant or immediate, in Australia. In the coming months, we will establish a special collection of Australian connections at our library in New Haven. Any Connecticut Irish who have Australian relatives and wish to get involved in this project should contact us.
We have also begun a program to microfilm the records of some of Connecticut's earliest Irish Catholic parishes.
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