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North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
National Archive launches search for Irish people who are 100 years or over to tell their stories: irishstar.com/news/ireland-n…
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
It’s #MapMonday
Today’s map is titled “The Province of Vlster”, created by Dutch cartographer Jan Janssonius (c.1620). Both English and Latin are used, with drawings of mountains and ships. As this map is a black-and-white copy, it adds a spooky effect! 👻🖤
PRONI Ref - T594/1
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Ancestry has uploaded 306,000 personnel records from Ireland's railway companies (1870-1940). First time indexed! First time online! Find out more:
irishgenealogynews.com/2024/…
#IrishGenealogy #IrishFamilyHistory #IrishAncestors
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Donegal County Archives is seeking a qualified archivist for short term project over summer 2024 listing a landed estate collection. Please see donegalcoco.ie/culture/archi…
closing date for applications is 26th June.
@Donegalcomuseum
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
The dramatic loss of centuries of invaluable archive information during the Irish Civil War, and the work to virtually recreate it, will be the focus of a special event taking place in the Guildhall on June 19th at 12pm.
Find out more - tinyurl.com/nfsrh8u8
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Reminder: join us this Wednesday at 7.30pm for "Ancient Irish DNA" a lecture by Prof Dan Bradley of TCD. @visit_armagh @NIFHS @LocalUlster all welcome .
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
#AmeliaEarhart landed near #Derry #OnThisDay 21 May 1932, having taken off from #Newfoundland the day before, making her the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. 🛩️
ALT Amelia Earhart landing near Derry
ALT Amelia Earhart landing near Derry
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
As much as I am an advocate of all things digital, sometimes there is nothing like a wall of wonder of original records you can use for your #familyhistory - thanks @NIFHS
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Looking forward to this @IrelandMapped @NIFHS event on Monday. There's a wealth of information in the OS archive that's useful to those researching family history and place studies! Great to see one of our latest visualisations being used in promotional materials too 👇
2024 marks 200 years of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland.
On Monday @CatSPorter will talk about the #OS200 project which is digitally gathering historic maps & texts into a free online resource. Something to look forward to!
Book here: forms.gle/PjGZFaG2UFUGzHpm8
#Genealogy #History
ALT Navy background with family history meeting information in white text. Picture on the right was created by Dr Catherine Porter and shows an Ordnance Survey team overlooking Red Bay, County Antrim, with the landscape made of old maps.
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Celebrate Heritage Week in your local library with events and exhibitions in local libraries - Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/LNIHerWk24
ALT Graphic advertising Heritage Week with two black and white photographs and the words 'Heritage Week' and '11-15 March 2024' included.
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
#OnThisDay 100 years ago, PRONI opened its doors to the public for the first time!
Thank you to everyone who joined us in our PRONI 100 birthday celebrations over the past year! 🎉✨🎉
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
I learnt at RootsTech that GEDmatch now have over two million people in their database. They have also just launched the ability to import a GEDCOM from the FamilySearch Family Tree. #GeneticGenealogy
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
1924 people in distress in West #Donegal due to potato crop and fishing industry failure in newly created Irish Free State. Save the Children (Saor an Leanabh) asked govt rep. how it could help women & children. especially in the islands, #Toraigh & #Arranmore
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
RootsIreland is offering a discount of 25% on 12-month subscriptions to its fabulous database of multi-denominational church records, census & civil records, headstone inscriptions & census substitutes:
irishgenealogynews.com/2024/…
#IrishGenealogy #IrishFamilyHistory #IrishAncestors
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Book on the Great Famine in Donegal to be launched this Saturday - donegaldaily.com/2024/03/04/…
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Delighted to receive a copy from @CecileArchives of @dfarchives of the new book 'A Very Hard Struggle' - Lives in the Military Service Pensions Collection. Thanks Anne Dolan & Catriona Crowe! Pen at the ready to make notes! Looking forward to reading it! 287 pages! #WorldBookDay
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
Any ancestral connections to Irish railway employees? irishgenealogynews.com/2024/…
#IrishGenealogy #IrishAncestors
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
PRONI and @theRCN are launching a Biographical Dictionary of Nurses from Ireland during the WW2.👩⚕️
This launch is accompanied by the opening of an exhibition at PRONI by @byjillphillips during the first week of March. ✨
bit.ly/3USo62G
#escapades #laserengravedpaper
ALT Black and white image of nurse in their work uniform.
North of Ireland Family History Society retweeted
****Temporary changes to PRONI service****
Due to construction work being carried out in PRONI there will be no access to our Reading Room from 4th March for 6 weeks.
During this closure, original documents will be able to be viewed in our Search Room from 1pm on 4th March.
