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The Irish Special Interest Group (I-SIG) meets four times a year, in-person at the StLGS office in Maplewood and also livestreamed via Zoom. See below for specific instructions and directions to the library. |
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Click here for more information on Irish in St. Louis.
The city of St. Louis also provides some interesting information about Irish immigration to St. Louis. Click here to link to that page.
For details or questions about StLGS Irish-SIG, contact Kathy Franke, I-SIG leader, at
SIG Meetings
Irish SIG meetings are both via Zoom and hybrid. In-person meetings are held at the St. Louis Genealogical Society office (4 Sunnen Drive, Suite 140, St. Louis, MO 63143), or you can attend remotely via Zoom.
For a printable version of this year’s Irish SIG meetings, click here.
All Irish SIG meetings are free and open to the public; however it is necessary to register, if you want to join the Zoom webinar. You do NOT need to register for an in-person meeting at our office or to view the digital recording that will be posted on this page.
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Irish SIG Meetings for 2026
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Remaining Meeting for 2026
Saturday, 24 October 2026
1:00 p.m. (Central)
Using DNA for Your Irish Family History
Many Americans have Irish ancestry and are keen to know more about their Irish forebears. However, a stumbling block to researching those ancestors is not knowing where in Ireland they came from, as most often all we see on documents for place of origin is “Ireland.” However, the advent of DNA testing may be just the thing to help you overcome this obstacle.
Featured Speaker: Claire Bradley, Director of Irish Studies, International Institute of Genealogical Studies
This meeting will be hybrid. You do not need to register to attend in person, but you will need to register to attend virtually.
To register for the Zoom meeting, click on the Registration Button below and follow the simple instructions that appear on your screen. Once you have filled in the registration form, an invitation with a link to attend the meeting will be sent to the email you provided.
If there is a handout for this meeting, it will be here.
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Recorded SIG Meetings Available Online
Saturday, 25 July 2026
Understanding Land Ownership in Ireland from 1600–1900
The Irish Catholic farmer, for the most part, had no rights to land ownership from the mid-1600s to the early twentieth century. How was this possible and how did it come about? Our speaker will explain how the Anglo-Irish landowners acquired Irish property, and how the lifestyle of those landowners impacted the predominantly Irish Catholic tenant population.
Featured Speaker: Gabrielle Woeltje, Irish genealogist
The recording of this meeting is here.
Saturday, 25 April 2026
Census Returns in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland—Recovering Ireland’s Lost Census Records
A disastrous fire in 1922 at the beginning of the Irish Civil War destroyed much of the archive of the Public Record Office in Dublin. The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) is an all-island and international research partnership working to reconstruct these records.
Featured Speaker: Dr. Brian Gurrin, research fellow and census specialist for The Virtual Record Treasury
The recording for this meeting has expired; however, there were three handouts for this meeting still available:
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Placing an Irish Ancestor into StLGS’s First Families
Bernard/Barney/Brian King was an Irish immigrant who came to Missouri as a child with his parents during the infamous potato famine. Careful research led to placing him in St. Louis before the Civil War and recognizing him in the First Families program. You can honor your early ancestors by enrolling them in a lineage society with knowledge of the process.
Featured Speakers : Viki Fagyal and Kay Weber
The link to the First Families page is here.
The recorded webinar can be viewed here.
Password for the recording is dD0=^+mR
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