INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGY FESTIVAL 2004
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    Day 1 - Thursday 30th September 2004
    Day 2 - Friday 1st October 2004
    Day 3 - Saturday 2nd October 2004
    Day 4 - Sunday 3rd October 2004
 
               
Table of Events  
Date Time Venue Lecture Speaker
Thursday
30th Sept
11 AM Room 1 Griffiths' Primary Valuation of Ireland - What it can tell me? George B. Handran
11 AM Room 2 Death and Burial Customs in Rural 19th Century Ireland Sean S. O’Duill
12 NOON Room 1 Sources at the National Archives Gregory O’Connor
12 NOON Room 2 Church of Ireland Records at the Representative Church Body Library Susan Hood
2 PM Room 1 The Irish Genealogical Project – The story so far Eamon Rossi
2 PM Room 2 Lesser known sources of Irish Genealogy Jack Johnson
3 PM Room 1 Putting your Irish Genealogy Research in Perspective Tony McCarthy
Friday
1st Oct
10 AM Room 1 Emigration Through the Port of Sligo in the 19th Century John C. McTernan
11 AM Room 1 DNA and the origin and history of Irish surnames Patrick Guinness
11 AM Room 2 Irish Passenger Lists Brian Mitchell
12 NOON Room 1 Irish heraldry and ancestry Susan Hood
12 NOON Room 2 Dublin, 30 June 1922: Did Everything Blow Up? Eileen M. O’Duill
2 PM Room 1 Irish Records in the National Archives in Kew, London Audrey Collins
2 PM Room 2 Matchmaking and Marriage Customs in 19th Century Ireland Sean S. O’Duill
3 PM Room 1 Sources at the National Library Colette O’Flaherty
Saturday
2nd Oct
10 AM Room 1 Civil Registration and Census Returns Eileen M. O’Duill
11 AM Room 1 The Yeats Brothers and Sligo Jack Flynn
11 AM Room 2 Three Dublin Merchants :What happened to them after the Act of Union? Patricia Moorehead
12 NOON Room 1 Gravestones Inscriptions in Genealogy Research Willie O’Kane
12 NOON Room 2 The O'Rourkes of Russia and Poland:From Wild Geese to the
present day
Sean O’Suilleabhain
2 PM Room 1 Establishing Family Links through DNA testing - A Users view Michael McTiernan
3 PM Room 1 Digitisation of Irish Records – The current state of play Brian Donovan
3 PM Room 2 Ireland: Island Customs and Folklore Joe McGowan
Sunday
3rd Oct
11 AM Room 1 The Wealth of the Irish Poor Law, It's Origins, It's Records and It's Riches George B. Handran
12 NOON Room 1 Genealogical Research in Ireland in 2004 Panel Discussion
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