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Contents.

Free recordings:

Lesser know sources for Irish family history

Leading the Way: Michael Leader's Transcripts of Church of Ireland Parish Registers in Co. Cork

Virtual Treasury 101: Records, Resources and Research

The Great Famine eviction database

Member only recordings.

Focusing on the Migrants: How Genealogy has Transformed our Understanding of the Irish in Canada

Using the Irish Naming Tradition to build your Family Tree

The National Famine Way

Imirce: The Kirby A. Miller Collection

A Conversation with Megan Smolenyak

Researching the Irish diaspora in South Africa

Irish in the polar regions

Tracing your Irish Police Ancestor

Historic Buildings and Those who Built them: Building Conservation and the work of SPAB Ireland

Anyone for Tennis: Early Lawn Tennis in the Dublin 6 area

DNA helps break down an Irish brick wall

Brownes, Blakes and DNA

Collusion and Discovery in 18th century Co. Kildare

Kate Molony and the Ladies Land League

Tackling Sequential Brick Walls with DNA

Ireland Genealogy Projects: an underused online resource

Hey Presto: my grandfather was a magician

You can make ropes to hang: a 19th century Dublin family

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