Members of Accredited Genealogists Ireland will be participating in an online Genealogy Q&A event in collaboration with Dublin City Council (DCC) Culture Club and the National Archives of Ireland on Thursday 29 April 2021 at 11.00am. The event, titled ‘Ask the Genealogist’, will be given by Paul Gorry, Nicola Morris and Steven Smyrl and is similar to the one held in October last year which was very successful. Click Culture Club for more.
AGI to deliver second Diploma in Family History course
A second Diploma in Family History course at City Colleges will commence on 29 April. As with the first course, which ran from January to April, it will be delivered by Accredited Genealogists Ireland. It runs for 10 weeks, online. Enrollment is open now. Click here for more information.
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SIR ARTHUR VICARS ULSTER KING-OF-ARMS EXECUTED 100 YEARS AGO Tony Hennessy MAGI Sir Arthur Vicars was born in Leamington Spa , Warwickshire, England on 27 July 1862. Following his formal education, he moved to Ireland where he remained for the rest of his life. Arthur became an expert in the associated fields of genealogy and heraldry and on 2 Feb. 1893, following the recent death of his predecessor Sir Bernard Burke, he was appointed Ulster King-of-Arms, a post first created in 1552, (although a herald of arms for Ireland is first recorded in 1382). In this position Vicars was responsible … Read More