GSI Online Resources - Access to the Monthly Lectures (Presentation No. 1. 2021)

GSI Online Resources Access to the Society’s Monthly Lectures Presentation No. 1 (2021) www.familyhistory.ie

The Society’s Open Meetings 1991-2020 (The normal meetings were suspended in March 2020 due Covid-19)

Foundation of the Society

Evening Meetings on 2nd Tuesday 9 Apr. 1991

25 Oct. 1990

28 Oct. 1992 – 26 Feb. 2020

9 Apr. 1991 – 10 Mar. 2020

First Open Meeting held in the Victor Hotel

Morning Meetings on 4th Wednesday

First Annual General Meeting October 1991 O Conor Don, First President of the Society & Frieda Carroll, FGSI First Cathaoirleach

General Themes or Subjects Genealogy, DNA & Resources

• Research Tutorials • Record Keeping Methodologies • Introduction to Repositories • Introduction to Resources • Case Studies • Projects (Irish DNA Atlas etc) • Publishing Your Family History

Linked Disciplines & Resources

• Local History • Military History • Irish Police History • Social History • Maps & Land Use Surveys • State & Commercial Records • Inter-disciplinary Studies • Heraldry / Vexillology

So what’s available via the GSI Website?

From Dec. 2016 on the GSI YouTube Channel - 40 videos • Genetic Genealogy – 8 videos • Local History – 4 videos • Military & Police History – 5 videos

From Sept. 2020 – ‘Hall’s Index’ is now fully searchable!

• Reports on the Monthly Lectures are published in ‘Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette’.

• Web Resources – 8 videos

• Precis of each monthly lecture, many with web references included, from 2006 to the present.

• Church Records – 3 videos

• Fully searchable index 2006 – to date

• Heraldry / Vexillology – 4 videos

• Also, Society Newsletters 1996-2005

• Misc. / Specific Collections – 5 videos

• Direct access to the all of the original publications – Free!

• Biographical – 3 videos

GSI YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGqe3_Od9gfksqocu3YuywQ/videos

Irish DNA Atlas Project & Genetic Genealogy • Eight YouTube Videos (one duplicate) • Nearly 30,000+ visits to these videos • Including circa 17,000 to the first video on the Irish DNA Atlas Project featuring Dr. Edmund Gilbert of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

• Other videos featuring Dr. Maurice Gleeson, Dr. Paddy Waldron, Gerard Corcoran and Mike Mulligan – all experts in the ever-expanding field of Genetic Genealogy.

• Special thanks to Séamus O’Reilly, FGSI & his Irish DNA Atlas team.

‘Hall’s Index’ to ‘Ireland’s Genealogical Gazette’ 2006 – to date https://familyhistory.ie/newtheme/gazsrch.php Fourth President of the Society, Stuart Rosenblatt, PC, FGSI, delivering a lecture on his ‘magnum opus’ – researching the ‘Irish-Jewish Archival Heritage’.

Soon to comprise twenty-one large volumes..

See: Presentation No. 3 – ‘The Archival History of the Irish Jewish Community’ on www.facebook.com/familyhistory.ie

Go Raibh Maith Agaibh

Thank You

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