22 Tuesday Mar 2016
Posted in Uncategorized
The Annual Conference of the Catholic Family History society will be held on the 1st October 2016 at the Priory Meeting Rooms & Conference Centre, Birmingham, B4 6AF.
Speakers
Maggie Loughran – Professional genealogy speaker and writer, who will speak on wills before 1858.
Dr Nick Baker – Archivist at Princethorpe College, who will speak on locating the archives of religious orders.
Further information will follow.
04 Friday Mar 2016
Posted in Archives, Church Records, Family History, Ireland
From the 1st March 2016, all surviving Irish Catholic parish registers will be online, and fully indexed. The project has been a collaborative effort between Ancestry, and the National Library of Ireland.
More than 10 million register entries have been digitised. They will be free to access during the month of March, after which people will have to subscribe to Ancestry.
More information available from the Irish Times
