Genealogy Workshops and Presentations

CIMPN Irish Research Workshops

Beginner Series

  • Getting Started with Irish Genealogy
  • Understanding Quebec Parish Records
  • Reading Catholic Parish Registers
  • Irish Naming Patterns

Immigration Series

  • Passenger Lists and Ship Records
  • Grosse Île Research
  • Tracing Families Back to Ireland
  • Why Quebec? Chain Migration
  • The Irish Famine Migration

Military Series

• Why Did My Irish Ancestor Serve in the British Military?
• British Army Records
• Royal Navy Records
• Fenian Raids and Canadian Militia
• Pension and Medal Records

Cemetery and Mapping Series

• Reading Historic Gravestones
• Missing Monuments
• Mapping Forgotten Cemeteries
• Burial Registers
• Cemetery Symbolism

DNA Series

• Using DNA in Genealogy
• Y-DNA, mtDNA and Autosomal DNA
• Irish DNA Atlas
• Case Studies

Canadian Research Series
with a primary focus on Quebec

• Library and Archives Canada
• Canadian Census and Immigration Records
• Provincial and Local Archives

Quebec Research Series

• BAnQ – Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
• Drouin Collection
• PRDH – Programme de recherche en démographie historique
• Notarial Records
• Land Records
• Census Records
• Historic Newspapers

Irish Records Series

• Civil Registration
• Griffith’s Valuation
• Tithe Applotment Books
• Estate Papers
• Workhouse Records

Case Study Series

• Finding Missing Families
• Reconstructing Lost Cemeteries
• Tracing Famine Orphans
• Following an Ancestor from Ireland to Canada
• Mapping Family History

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