The 'Clans and Surnames of Ireland Genealogy Programme is scheduled for May 15 - 19, 2017 in Nenagh, Tipperary. Our programme includes expert genealogy workshops, seminars, lecturers, fieldtrips and valuable research advice for Irish family researchers.
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Fieldtrips will be offered in County Clare, Limerick and Galway to facilitate a range of difference requirements. We are delighted 'Walking Tours', Graveyard tours and Landscape character assessment fieldwork and also to arrange a suitable package for a companion should you wish to travel with same. Conservation, preservation & collections care workshops are also scheduled.
Speakers include Kenneth Nicholls, Dr Paul MacCotter, Patrick Guinness, Sean J. Murphy, Fiona Fitzsimons, Dr Joe Mannion, David Ryan, Regina Sexton, Lorna Moloney, Dr Michael C. Keane,Dr Ursula Callaghan, Rosaleen Underwood, Brian Donovan, John Tierney, Aiden Feerick, John Nangle, Patrick Gleeson Jane Halloran-Ryan, Jennifer Wood and Tony Harpur. Our speaker profiles will be completed shortly and available and available at www.clansandsurnames.com/speakers
For further details and group bookings
please telephone: Lorna Moloney at 353-85-8721184
Email: admin@clansandsurnames.com
CLANS AND SURNAMES FAMILY HISTORY - NENAGH, CO. TIPPERARY MAY 15 - 19, 2017
May 15
Arrival at Nenagh, Abbeycourt Hotel. Welcome and Introductions
1.30 Registration
2.00 - 5.00 Genealogy Assessment and research needs workshops
Exploration of your personal research requirements. One to one guidance sessions and research planning for your Irish family research.
Exhibition Launch: The Casey Corner 'From Ireland to America - Genealogical Legacies from the Irish Diaspora - Casey Connections' The exhibition explores the Irish roots of James E. Casey founder of UPS
This exhibition examines the Genealogical wonders of O'Kief Coshe Mange collated and collected by Albert Eugene Casey and explores its family history legacies.
7.30 Dr Joe Mannion - Clans and Surnames of Ireland Opening lecture
May 16
9.00 - 10.00 - Introduction to Irish genealogy research
10.00 - 11.00 - Understanding Irish land records & Irish placenames
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.30 Latest Irish research sources for family history research
12.30 - 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 - 3.00 How to create your family tree using computer software
3.00 - 4.00 The Dos and Don't for Family trees -
4.00 - 5.00 Roundtable discussion and one to one guidance and support sessions
May 17
9.00 -11.00 Irish Surnames Research workshop - sources and strategies
11.00 - 11.30 BREAK
11.30 - 1.00 Spaces and Places, Townlands, Tithes and Taxes -Strategies sourcing your Irish ancestry
1.00 - 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 -5.00 Afternoon field trip to Portumna Workhouse for lectures, learning and online sources and fieldtrip led by Dr Paul MacCotter followed by a workshop-
May 18
9.00 - 11.00 Overcoming brick walls in Irish family research
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.30 How to write up your family history, methods and strategies
12.30 -1.00 Roundtable discussion
1.00 -2.00 LUNCH
2.00 - 3.30 Conservation & Collection care of your valuable family heirloom and documents - Jennifer Wood & Lorna Moloney
3.30 - 4.00 Break
4,00 - 5.00 DNA - Patrick Guinness.
7.00 Evening Plenary Lecture with Kenneth Nicholls 'Old Laws and Obsolete legal terms: some Guidance for the perplexed researcher', followed by Evening Dinner.
May 19
Conference seminars - Clans and Surnames.
Featured Papers
Michael J. Keane - From Laois to Kerry - Transplantation of the 7 Septs in 1607
Lorna Moloney: The Casey Corner - James E. Casey Origins -'Best Service and Lowest Rates' UPS - A long long way from Tipperary' & Albert E. Casey, & The Legacies of O'Kief Coshe Mange
David Ryan - Exploring your Tipperary Roots
Jennifer Wood - The Quest to find Prendergast Ancestors in Ireland'
Jane Halloran-Ryan - Tyredagh Clunes- what we can learn from one family's journey from County Clare to Connecticut
Tony Harpur - The Glory of the O'Deas
Patrick Gleeson - Gleeson legacies
Conference papers .
Clans and Surnames of Ireland Programme
Great National Abbeycourt Hotel, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite you to submit an abstract for consideration for our Clans and Surnames of Ireland Event for the 19 May, 2016. The Event will take place in Nenagh at the Great National Abbeycourt Hotel, Co. Tipperary. We are also interested in local surname studies and will host a table for same.
The themes of Clans and Surnames will based on Irish family history research.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Names, places and spaces
- Irish townlands
- Irish genealogy research
- Irish Surnames
- Gaelic Clans
- Irish family research
- Surname publications
- Online family history
Guide for authors- 200 word abstract emailed to Lorna Moloney at admin@clansandsurnames.com
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