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. However, the first meeting of the year will be livestreamed only. 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.

 

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 or to view the digital recording that will be posted on this page. All Irish SIG meetings begin at 1:00 p.m. (Central)

Next Irish SIG Meeting

 

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Irish Superstitions and Curses

Superstitions and curses commonly used in Ireland are believed to protect and extend life. They certainly add color and excitement. However, for those on the receiving end of a malicious curse, the consequences often go beyond the grave and beyond current time.  Come hear some lively tales of Ireland!

Featured Speaker: Gabrielle Ni Mheachair Woeltje

 

Registration for this meeting will open in mid-March. Please check back then.

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Remaining Meetings for 2025

 

 

Saturday, 26 July 2025

Using Irish Naming Convention to Discover the Family of Thomas Delaney in Mid-19th Century Ireland

Irish naming convention can be used as a powerful tool to analyze and predict family names and aid in the search for family units in Irish records in the mid-to-late 1800s. Our speaker will use a case study from her family to illustrate how this can be done.

Featured Speaker: Susan McKee

 

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Medieval Irish Genealogical Sources:
Bridging the Gap to the Modern Genealogist

The medieval era (The Middle Ages or Dark Ages) began around 476 CE and spanned nearly 1,000 years. We will explore how the medieval Irish established and documented the ancestry and heraldry we pursue today. Many source records remain accessible, including textual documents, maps, and landscape information.

Featured Speaker: Thomas J. Finan, Ph.D., professor of medieval history and archaeology at St. Louis University

 

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Recorded SIG Meetings Available Online

 

Saturday, 18 January 2025

Mapping Ireland’s Records

John Grenham’s talk explored ways in which visualizing the locations of households of particular surnames in Catholic records, valuations, census records and records of births, marriages and deaths can help with genealogy and local history, providing vivid examples of just how local some names are and how impossibly widespread others can be. All the records covered are free online and form part of the basis of almost all nineteenth-century Irish research. In addition, some of the focus was on maps of the geographic areas used to collect the records. This talk gave some of the technical background involved in creating the maps, but it mostly focused on their use and on how they shed light on surnames and families.

Featuring John Grenham

The handout for this meeting is here.

The recorded meeting portion of the webinar can be viewed  here.

The recorded presentation portion of the webinar can be viewed here.

Password for the recording is T$B53Mvx

 

Saturday, 26 October 2024

The National Archives of England and Ireland

There are three major national archives with materials relevant to family history and genealogical research in Ireland: the National Archives in London, the National Archives of Ireland in Dublin, and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast. Understanding their records, content, coverage, and catalogues will be the focus of this presentation.

Featured Speaker: David Rencher, AG, CG, FUGA, FIGRS, FNGS

The handout for this meeting is here.

The recorded webinar can be viewed here.

Password for the recording is b!5=g4uk

 

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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