Ulster Historical Foundation

“Things Money CAN Buy” – Charity Auction
With the long month of January finally behind us, why not treat yourself and bid on one of the number of great prizes and experiences in our “Things Money CAN Buy” charity auction.
Launching on 07 February 2020 at 5pm the Foundation’s “Things Money CAN Buy” auction includes a number of exclusive, exciting, and entertaining ‘lots’ to suit all interests as well as all size of bids.
... All of these auction ‘lots’ have either been generously gifted by other parties for the purpose of this auction or will be fulfilled by the Foundation itself. All proceeds from this auction will go towards supporting the work of Ulster Historical Foundation and some 'lots' will have a set reserve (the value of which depends on the item).
Visit our auction here: https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/ulsterhistori calfoundationchari…
Ulster Historical Foundation is a registered not-for-profit charity (NIC100280) and does not receive any funding. The ability to deliver our range of services and engage with like-minded family historians across the globe depends on your support and the support of other passionate genealogists.
We hope that our “Things Money CAN Buy” auction offers an exciting way for you to support us in 2020.
Any contribution, large or small, really does make a difference and your support of this auction is appreciated greatly.
We are sure there is something in our auction for everyone, but why not see for yourself?
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EARLY BIRD OFFER ENDING SOON! Our June 2020 Family History Conference's early bird offer ends Wednesday 12th February - after a long January why not take advantage of this special deal. You only have to pay the deposit of £350 before 12 February to avail of this offer. For more information and to book, visit: https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-hi story-conference/…/

Our latest publication 'Calming Conflict: Northern Ireland, Metaphor, and Migration' by Brian Lambkin is now available. You can hear more about the book in Brian's interview on NVTV here: http://www.nvtv.co.uk/…/novel-ideas-cal ming-conflict-brian…/.
The book can be purchased through our bookshop https://www.booksireland.org.uk/…/all-d epa…/calming-conflict

Registration & booking details are now available for all our USA events! Please note that some are already filling up so please visit www.ancestryireland.com/usa-lecture-tour- 2020/ for more information on how to register.
Friday, 6 March 2020 - Chicago IL (9:00am–5:00pm) Host: The Irish American Heritage Center
... Saturday, 7 March 2020 - Madison WI (9:00am–5:00pm) Host: The Wisconsin Historical Society
Sunday, 8 March 2020 - York PA (1:00pm–5:00pm) Hosts: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society & York County History Center
Monday, 9 March 2020 - Staunton, VA (9:00am to 5:00pm) Host: Staunton Public Library
Wednesday, 11 March 2020 - Bloomington, IN (12 noon–7:00pm) Host: Ulster Historical Foundation
Friday, 13 March 2020 - Richmond, VA (9:30am - 12:30pm) Host: Library of Virginia
Saturday, 14 March 2020 - Frankfort, KY (full day event) Host: Kentucky Genealogical Society
Sunday, 15 March 2020 - Philadelphia, PA (full day event) Host: The Genealogical Society Of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, 17 March 2020 - Pittsburgh, PA (9:00am–4:30pm) Hosts: Heinz History Center and the Westmoreland County Historical Society
Wednesday, 18 March 2020 - Charleston, SC (full day event) Hosts: Old St Andrew’s Parish Church, SC
Thursday, 19 March 2020 - Chicago, IL (10:00am-4:00pm) Host: The Newberry Library
Friday, 20 March 2020 - St Charles, MO (8:45am–1:00pm) Host: St. Charles County Historical Society
Saturday 21 March 2020 - Little Rock, AR (9:00am–3:00pm) Host: Arkansas Genealogical Society
Sunday, 22 March 2020 - Coeur d'Alene, ID (11:00am-6:00pm) Hosts: Jan Clizer - Painting Scotland & Jessica McKenzie
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Don't miss our Research Officer Gillian Hunt speaking on 'Using Irish landed estate records to find eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ancestors' at the Back To Our Past Show in Belfast on Friday 14 February 2020 - this is a free event, register at https://backtoourpast.ie

NEW FREE RECORDS AVAILABLE ON PRONI’S WEBSITE
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has recently added a number of free resources to its website. These are tithe applotment books, 1823–37; school grant-aid application forms, 1832–89; Hansard Official Reports of the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1998–2016 and photographs by A.R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation, 1912–15. Due to the lack of nineteenth century census returns in Ireland, land and valuation records have be...
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Announcing the winner of our 2019 Golden Ticket. Our Golden Ticket offered the chance for one lucky winner to win a place on one of our 2020 Research Programmes by paying nothing more than their deposit.
Congratulations H. Shimek!
Thank you to all who entered our Golden Ticket Draw.
... We look forward to seeing you all very soon.
For anyone who missed this offer but might be interested in travelling to the home of your ancestors, we have a number of programmes and events in 2020 that might be of intrerest.
Irish Genealogy Essentials, Feb. 2020 - https://www.ancestryireland.com/irish-gen ealogy-essentials/
Tracing your Irish Ancestors, June 2020 - https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-hi story-conference/…/
Irish Family History Experience, Sept. 2020 - https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-hi story-conference/…/
Researching your Irish Ancestors, Oct. 2020 - https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-hi story-conference/…/
Irish Genealogy Essentials, Nov. 2020 - https://www.ancestryireland.com/irish-gen ealogy-essentials/
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We are thrilled to announce the dates & locations of our March 2020 USA Lecture Tour!
Booking details & more information available here: www.ancestryireland.com/usa-lecture-tour- 2020/
Friday, 6 March 2020 - Chicago IL (9:00am–5:00pm)... Host: The Irish American Heritage Center
Saturday, 7 March 2020 - Madison WI (9:00am–5:00pm) Host: The Wisconsin Historical Society
Sunday, 8 March 2020 - York PA (1:00pm–5:00pm) Hosts: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society & York County History Center
Monday, 9 March 2020 - Staunton, VA (9:00am to 5:00pm) Host: Staunton Public Library
Wednesday, 11 March 2020 - Bloomington, IN (12 noon–7:00pm) Host: Ulster Historical Foundation
Friday, 13 March 2020 - Richmond, VA (9:30am - 12:30pm) Host: Library of Virginia
Saturday, 14 March 2020 - Frankfort, KY (full day event) Host: Kentucky Genealogical Society
Sunday, 15 March 2020 - Philadelphia, PA (full day event) Host: The Genealogical Society Of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, 17 March 2020 - Pittsburgh, PA (9:00am–4:30pm) Hosts: Heinz History Center and the Westmoreland County Historical Society
Wednesday, 18 March 2020 - Charleston, SC (full day event) Hosts: Old St Andrew’s Parish Church, SC
Thursday, 19 March 2020 - Chicago, IL (10:00am-4:00pm) Host: The Newberry Library
Friday, 20 March 2020 - St Charles, MO (8:45am–1:00pm) Host: St. Charles County Historical Society
Saturday 21 March 2020 - Little Rock, AR (9:00am–3:00pm) Host: Arkansas Genealogical Society
Sunday, 22 March 2020 - Coeur d'Alene, ID (11:00am-6:00pm) Hosts: Jan Clizer - Painting Scotland & Jessica McKenzie
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Today we celebrated Heather's 30 year anniversary with the Ulster Historical Foundation! She is the second of our small team to reach 30 years with us as our accounts manager Kathryn marked this anniversary last January! Heather is our Research Secretary and co-ordinates all our client-based research services. Congratulations Heather on this remarkable achievement and thank you for all you do for the Foundation.

New publication! CALMING CONFLICT: NORTHERN IRELAND, METAPHOR, AND MIGRATION
Here’s the problem. Twenty-one years on from the international treaty made in 1998 between the British and Irish governments, the ‘problem’ it was meant to settle is still highly conflicted (not calm). We’re not even agreed on whether we call it the Belfast Agreement or the Good Friday Agreement, or both! As this book goes to press in 2020, Northern Ireland (or is it the North of Ireland) is still ‘e...merging’ from thirty years of violence known commonly as the ‘Troubles’ but its peace process is ‘stuck’, at an ‘impasse’.
The powersharing Executive and Assembly, which collapsed in January 2017, is still suspended. Promised measures for dealing with the legacy of the conflict have not been implemented. We have seen come and go the proposals of Eames-Bradley (2007–09), Haas-O’Sullivan (2013), the Stormont House Agreement (2014), and the Fresh Start Agreement (2015). Now we have the results of a public consultation by the British government on ‘Addressing the Legacy of Northern Ireland’s Past’ (2018).
Are we ‘dealing with’ the past, or just ‘addressing’ it?
Here's part of the solution …
PRE-LAUNCH OFFER: pre-order your copy for only £19.99 plus P&P (RRP: £24.99): Click here to pre-order: https://bit.ly/35xJAop
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Our Christmas sale of books and online records ends TODAY! All our birth, marriage and death records are currently half-price. The full list of our books in the sale is available here: http://www.booksireland.org.uk/store/boxi ng-day-2019…

USING AMERICAN RECORDS TO TEAR DOWN IRISH BRICKWALLS
PRONI and the Ulster Historical Foundation would like to invite you to this joint event. Kevin Cassidy will talk about using American records to uncover Irish ancestors at PRONI on 10 January 2020 at 1pm.
Siblings or cousins that emigrated to the United States may have created a fuller set of records to examine than one’s direct ancestor. Unanswered Irish research problems might be solved in the vast collection of collatera...l records found across the Atlantic. Kevin Cassidy has 25 years of experience researching American records from the near complete 19th-century census records, to newspaper obituaries to homestead applications. This is a ‘must’ for those researching ancestors who have left Ireland for the United States.
FREE event - to register, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-amer ican-records-to-te…
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Please note that our offices are now closed for the Christmas period until Monday 6th January - we look forward to helping you find your ancestors in 2020!

On 27 November 2019 the Ulster Historical Foundation held a fundraising event in Belfast. The event invited reputable historians to speak on the age of Enlightenment and explore Belfast’s connection to the wider world during the ‘Age of Reason’.
These lectures were recorded and are now being made available to the public. We hope our friends and followers overseas who were unable to attend but who were interested in the topics might like to take advantage of the lectures bein...g available.
As this event was a fundraiser every purchase will go towards supporting the work of Ulster Historical Foundation. If you feel like you would like to contribute more than what is asked, this would be greatly appreciated.
For more information visit:
https://ancestryireland.bandcamp.com/rele ases
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Register for one of our family history research programmes or conferences between 05 December and 16 December and be automatically included in a prize draw for the chance to win the Christmas “Golden Ticket”.
The “Golden Ticket” will offer one lucky winner the chance to participate in one of the Foundation’s 2020 family history research programmes for just the price of their deposit.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: Family History Conference, 10-17 June - https://www.ancestryire...land.com/family -history-conference/…/
Irish Family History Experience: Introduction to Irish Genealogy, 07-12 September - https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-hi story-conference/…/
Researching your Irish Ancestors: Assisted Research Programme, 05-09 October - https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-hi story-conference/…/
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