Tuesday 15 May 2018

Irish lectures at QFHS Roots 2018 conference, Montreal

There are three Irish themed lectures taking place in Montreal this weekend as part of the Quebec Family History Society's Roots 2018 conference.

Two of the lectures will be presented by Tom Quinlan, Keeper, National Archives of Ireland (NAI): What's new at the NAI? (Saturday 19 May) and Researching convict ancestors at the NAI (Sunday 20 May). The third is with historian Steven L Cameron: Pre-Famine Irish in rural Quebec (Saturday 19 May).

Roots 2018 will be held at McGill University in Montreal and you need to register. You can find the full lecture programme plus details of Ancestry Friday, the Gala Dinner, costs and accommodation from that link, or download the brochure here.