Cara, I've had no training in teaching about Ireland, but I have worked at a genealogy library since 1978, though have only been a substitute in recent years since my cancer. However, I have been researching my family in Ireland for years and have purchased many books on Irish research I plan to review for my talk. The genealogy conference was decided upon as a project for Make a Difference Day when various groups in America do community service. I'm assuming that mostly beginners will come to the class or people who have not had success in Irish research and are looking for ideas. The class is at an LDS church which is located about a half hour drive from my home. They have a Family History Library there. I've put many of their Irish films on permanent loan so others can use them so they know of my interest in Irish research. The class will run about 45 minutes with about 30 minutes of information on available resources and 15 minutes for questions. I have no idea how many people will sign up for the class or their ages. Actually...I have been out of town baby-sitting my grand daughter all of Aug. and when I got home they asked me to teach the class because I've done so much Irish research. When I asked this group for ideas for the internet I thought I'd just give out a sheet [if the people attending my Irish class wanted it] listing sites on the internet to do research in Ireland. The conference will be advertised in the paper etc. and all are invited at no charge for the seminar which will have many other classes during the day such as searching the census, military records, using the internet, writing your family's history, beginning genealogy research, etc, etc. In 30 minutes you can see it will just be a general overview of Irish research. The people who attend will receive a free booklet with an outline of research for each class taught. As I mentioned, my sheet on the internet will only be handed out to the people who attend my class. I will not be putting it in the class outlines handed out to everyone. I do not mind you asking, Cara. I probably should have explained a little more about it, but as I say, they just asked me to do the class and I just received an email explaining it will be about 45 minutes...etc. The conference is being done as a service to the communities in the area to interest people in genealogy. I'm sure there will be many other projects around the various towns in my area on Make a Difference Day. I remember last year someone painted and cleaned the gardens around the local history museum in my town and another year one group painted the library. Lots of groups do various projects on that day. Well...must run. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you, Cara, with any suggestions you have for good sites on the internet. I've found a few myself, but thought there might be some that I don't know about. I've found some by faithfully reading the rootsweb emails I get from this group. I can hardly wait for the 1901 and 1911 census records to be on line. I've read many of them, but still can't find a few people I need. I'm very stuck on my great grandfather. Can't find his marriage or death or cemetery records, though the rest of the family is buried at St. George's, Dublin, and Mt. Jerome. Take care, Flo

Hi Flo & Bill This is one of my favourites. http://www.archercousins.com/emerald_isle.htm Also there is a wealth of wonderful information on rootsweb. I would also recommend the Jean McCarthy site for Belfast area and Ros Davies for county Down. Lots of wonderful stuff can be found by just doing google searches. Al Valentine Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Flo" <[email protected]> To: "Cara_Links" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN-CITY] Help need on internet sites > Cara, I've had no training in teaching about Ireland, but I have worked at a > genealogy library since 1978, though have only been a substitute in recent > years since my cancer. However, I have been researching my family in > Ireland for years and have purchased many books on Irish research I plan to > review for my talk. The genealogy conference was decided upon as a project > for Make a Difference Day when various groups in America do community > service. I'm assuming that mostly beginners will come to the class or > people who have not had success in Irish research and are looking for ideas. > The class is at an LDS church which is located about a half hour drive from > my home. They have a Family History Library there. I've put many of their > Irish films on permanent loan so others can use them so they know of my > interest in Irish research. The class will run about 45 minutes with about > 30 minutes of information on available resources and 15 minutes for > questions. I have no idea how many people will sign up for the class or > their ages. Actually...I have been out of town baby-sitting my grand > daughter all of Aug. and when I got home they asked me to teach the class > because I've done so much Irish research. When I asked this group for ideas > for the internet I thought I'd just give out a sheet [if the people > attending my Irish class wanted it] listing sites on the internet to do > research in Ireland. The conference will be advertised in the paper etc. > and all are invited at no charge for the seminar which will have many other > classes during the day such as searching the census, military records, using > the internet, writing your family's history, beginning genealogy research, > etc, etc. In 30 minutes you can see it will just be a general overview of > Irish research. The people who attend will receive a free booklet with an > outline of research for each class taught. As I mentioned, my sheet on the > internet will only be handed out to the people who attend my class. I will > not be putting it in the class outlines handed out to everyone. > > I do not mind you asking, Cara. I probably should have explained a little > more about it, but as I say, they just asked me to do the class and I just > received an email explaining it will be about 45 minutes...etc. The > conference is being done as a service to the communities in the area to > interest people in genealogy. I'm sure there will be many other projects > around the various towns in my area on Make a Difference Day. I remember > last year someone painted and cleaned the gardens around the local history > museum in my town and another year one group painted the library. Lots of > groups do various projects on that day. > > Well...must run. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you, Cara, with > any suggestions you have for good sites on the internet. I've found a few > myself, but thought there might be some that I don't know about. I've found > some by faithfully reading the rootsweb emails I get from this group. I can > hardly wait for the 1901 and 1911 census records to be on line. I've read > many of them, but still can't find a few people I need. I'm very stuck on > my great grandfather. Can't find his marriage or death or cemetery records, > though the rest of the family is buried at St. George's, Dublin, and Mt. > Jerome. > > Take care, Flo > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >