Your home may provide clues to family history
EXPERT genealogist Fiona Fitzsimons will host a talk on Zoom titled ‘Evidence in your Home.’
The talk will look at how family memorabilia can provide vital clues to our family past and help us tell our family’s story.
Our homes accumulate a vast archive of family memorabilia over the years. Most of us have boxes or drawers of old photos, letters, postcards and family papers gathering dust around our homes. Love letters sent between great-grandparents, original birth certificates, old photographs and postcards provide vital clues to our family past are invaluable in helping us tell our family’s story.
The talk takes place on Thursday, January 21, at 7.30 p.m. and was arranged by Wicklow County Library Service.
Fiona Fitzsimons is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, a historical expert and entrepreneur. Since 1996 she’s developed the historical research department in Trinity called the Irish Family History Centre, setting high standards for all research work.
From 2005 to the present, Fiona and her team have provided research and historical consultancy for television and film production, including WDYTYA, Faces of America, Finding our Roots, Ancestors in the Famine, etc.
From 2010 Fiona has carved out a role as a writer and educator in Irish Public History. She has taught at the Innovation Academy, Trinity
College Dublin; Ancestral Connections Summer School in N.U.I. Cork (2013, 2014, 2015, forthcoming 2016); the British Institute, SLC (2015).
Since 2012 Fiona hosts the popular Summer Talks series in the National Library of Ireland. In 2014 she established the monthly Expert Workshop @NLIreland series.
The talk will be delivered online via Zoom. It will consist of a 45 minute workshop followed by a 45 minute Q & A clinic where Fiona will answer questions from participants that have been submitted through the chat function on Zoom.
Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment. See wicklowlibraries.eventbrite. ie for booking services.