Sharing your tree on MyHeritage
I’ve posted a new video on my YouTube channel explaining how to add and remove site members to your MyHeritage tree.
Author: Claire
Genealogical Mysteries
I often review serious history and genealogy books on my blog but this is a little bit different. Did you know there’s a whole fiction genre that involves genealogy? This post features 3 different writers & I’ve read most of their books. The pattern with most of these books is a two-stranded narrative. One part…
Addressing Mental Health in Family History
It’s Mental Health Awareness week in Ireland. Prompted by my recent review of a book about Grangegorman Mental Hospital, I’ve been re-reading my great-grandmother’s medical file. Mary Bradley, née Lawless, spent the last 10 years of her life at the hospital following suicidal thoughts. She had been widowed young in her 50s with 4 children.…
Inside Grangegorman
Inside Grangegorman is a history of Grangegorman Mental Hospital in Dublin, which was also known as the Richmond Lunatic Asylum and St Brendan’s over the time it existed. It’s written by a mental health care professional, Professor Brendan Kelly. While telling the history of the institution, he weaves through case studies of patients, anonymising their…
May talks
This month I’m giving a number of talks both in-person and online. This is on top of my regular teaching commitments for the International Institute of Genealogical Studies and Malahide Community School! If your organisation is interested in booking me for a lecture, I have some space in the second half of this year. Please…
Autumn Adult Education
It might be still Spring, but Malahide Community School’s Autumn Adult Ed program is already out. I’ll be running my popular Irish Genealogy course in person for 10 weeks starting 16th Sept. This is the thirteenth year of running the class in my alma mater. It’s always good fun and I’m always refining the topics…
Netflix documentaries for the genetic genie enthusiast
If you’d like to consume your hobby in a new format, have you considered documentaries? I’ve got two to recommend. First up, Found is a feature-length documentary about three Chinese-American adoptees (Sadie, Chloe & Lily) who discover they are related to each other through 23andMe DNA tests and then, supported by their families, decide to…
Visiting the FamilySearch Library
This is my final blog post following my trip to Rootstech 2024 which was held in Salt Lake City in Utah. If you’re not aware, then this building is the something akin to Mecca for genealogists. The LDS Church considers genealogy a part of their religion and so they collect and make available records for…
Guinness is Good for You
For St. Patrick’s Day 2024, I’m taking a look at a new collection on Ancestry of Guinness records. Guinness, in case you didn’t know, is one of Ireland’s most famous exports. The Guinness Store House is a top tourist attraction in Dublin. I actually don’t much like the black stuff, but I do recognise the…
25 years of Genetic Genealogy
The second part of my report from Rootstech 2024 highlights an interesting panel session, which you can watch online, featuring some of the movers and shakers of the genetic genealogy world. They discussed the origins of the field and how it has progressed in the first quarter century. It’s a lovely summary of “so far”.…