Belfast
When
Belfast Branch monthly talks are usually held on the fourth Tuesday of each month via Zoom. Belfast Branch members will receive the link by email in advance of each meeting – anyone else interested in attending a talk can request the link from the Branch Secretary.
Monthly talks will be recorded and made available for a limited time for Belfast Branch Members in different time zones to watch at a more convenient time.
Other Physical meetings will be arranged throughout the year to allow Branch members to meet, interact and socialise together. These will consist of Workshops, Visits and Projects etc.
For further information about any of the items on this page, please contact the Branch Secretary via the Society Contact Page.
Here to Help
Branch volunteers have offered to provide help for Belfast Branch Members by:
- Mentoring beginners
- Looking up documents in PRONI or GRONI
- Photographing a building, grave or place
Belfast City Cemetery DNA Project
Many people in Belfast came from elsewhere in the mid 1800s to find work and it is often difficult to identify where they were originally from.
This Project aims to bring together DNA testers with ancestors in Belfast and build the family trees of those testers on Wikitree in order to make the connections that may help to unlock their origins.
Those buried in the Cemetery are being recorded on Wikitree for everyone to see. Click here to find out more.
Members of the Belfast Branch have been asked to join the Project and this invitation will be extended to others as we proceed with research and recording.
Where
Belfast Branch monthly talks are usually held on the fourth Tuesday of each month via Zoom.
Events Programme
Belfast City Cemetery Open Day
Sunday, 15 September 2024
10.30am - 3.00pm
"From Peel to the PSNI" The History of Policing in Ireland - Roy Black
- Tuesday, 24 September 2024
- 7.30pm
Research Centre Open Day
- Saturday, 5 October 2024
- 10.30am - 2.30pm
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors in County Donegal - Una Matthewson
- Tuesday, 22 October 2024
- 7.30pm
Research Workshop
- Tuesday, 19 November 2024
- 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Mother and Baby Institutions - Prof Sean O'Connell (Queen's University Belfast)
- Tuesday, 26 November 2024
- 7.30pm
Christmas Party and Entertainment
- Tuesday, 17 December 2024
- 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Belfast City Cemetery - Tom Hartley
- Tuesday, 28 January 2025
- 7.30pm
Research Centre Open Day
- Thursday, 6 February 2025
- 10.30am - 2.30pm
OS200: Digitally remapping Ireland's Ordnance Survey Heritage - Prof. Keith Lilley
- Tuesday, 25 February 2025
- 7.30pm
Unlocking Legal Histories: Exploring Crown and Peace, Land Records, and Civil Court Archives – Graham Jackson, PRONI
- Tuesday, 25 March 2025
- 7.30pm
NIFHS DNA Projects - Anne Johnston
- Tuesday, 29 April 2025
- 7.30pm
Research Centre Open Day
- Saturday, 3 May 2025
- 10.30am - 2.30pm
Branch AGM followed by Bad Bridget: "Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women” Prof E Farrell (UoU) & Prof L McCormick (QUB)
- Tuesday, 27 May 2025
- 7.30pm