The Ireland Branch of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) will be holding its annual Genealogy Open Day this Saturday, 20 May, in the Conference Room of Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
The event is free to attend and everyone – IGRS members and non-members – is welcome. There's a great line-up, with three lectures and three short talks (the latter aimed mainly at beginners), as you'll see from the programme below: 
10:00am    Registration
10:20am    Welcome
10:30am    Tracing Ancestors in the Irish Police, with Jim Herlihy
11:20am    Finding the Irish in Scotland, with Ruth Mathewson
12:00pm    Lunch at own expense
13:45pm    How German immigrants brought savoury delight to Dublin, with Karl-Heinz Wuestner
14:45pm    Three short talks: 
                Demonstration of new features on the IGRS website, with Claire Bradley      
                DNA testing, with Aileen Wynne
                Church records, with Rosaleen Underwood
16:00pm    Close
No booking is necessary.
