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AGI member John Grenham is speaking at RootsTech in Salt Lake City on Thursday, February 4th next. John will be in Salt Lake from Wednesday to Sunday as a VIP guest of FamilySearch.

Members of AGI will present five lunchtime lectures during Adult Learners’ Week 2016 at the National Library of Ireland.  The lectures will introduce genealogical sources that might be used to document ancestors who were alive in 1916 or who were active during the Rising. While the sources will be discussed in the context of the Rising, they are not all exclusive to that period or specifically for Dublin City. Monday 22nd February Were your Ancestors active in 1916?: Sources in the Irish Military Archives by Nicola Morris MAGI Tuesday 23rd February Reporting on the Rising: Using Irish Newspapers in the … Read More

All in Accredited Genealogists Ireland (AGI) are saddened by the death of Eileen O’Byrne, BA, BL, FAGI, FIGRS. Eileen was one of our founding members and a very unassuming, generous colleague, while being very knowledgeable about all aspects of genealogical sources and research. Eileen qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar before raising her family. In the mid-1960s she began working as a genealogical researcher for the Genealogical Office, Dublin Castle. She was a contributor to IRISH GENEALOGY: A RECORD FINDER (1981), and she edited THE CONVERT ROLLS (1981) for the Irish Manuscript Commission. Three decades ago APGI … Read More

2015 was a busy year for AGI – Accredited Genealogists Ireland (formerly APGI – the Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland), including a change of name. AGI welcomed five new Members in 2015 – Anne Rodda, Joanna Cicely Fennell, Elaine Hannon, Sandra Doble and Beverly Brown. Both Elaine and Sandra graduated to full membership from Affiliate status. AGI also welcomed three new Affiliates – Jane Halloran Ryan, Marie Cahill and Kit Smyrl. Subsequent to a presentation at the last AGM in relation to a proposed change of name for APGI, and after much lively discussion by members on our website, … Read More

Accredited Genealogists Ireland (AGI) is pleased to announce that its very first Emeritus Member is Patricia Moorhead. She is a popular figure in Irish genealogy, known particularly for her witty and entertaining talks. Pat, as she is familiarly known to her friends, has been involved in family history research for over two decades. She was passed by the APGI (now AGI) assessors in 1999 and retained membership until a year ago, when she chose to retire. At AGI’s Annual General Meeting in December 2015 a constitutional amendment was passed, allowing the Council to confer emeritus status on members or associate … Read More