“The Irish are Coming!” is the call you hear these days from Carla Maitland, Public Relations Director and newly elected 2014 Vice President of the Tennessee Genealogical Society. The Ulster Historical Foundation is a ”non-profit organization founded in 1956 to promote interest in Irish genealogy and history, with particular reference to the historical nine county province of Ulster. The Foundation is one of the leading genealogical research agencies in Ireland and a major publisher of historical, educational and genealogical source books. It has also devised a series of ground breaking online historical and genealogical resources, which have helped to transform the availability of Irish records for family historians at home and abroad.”

The Tennessee Genealogical Society is excited to have the Ulster Historical Foundation come to do an all day Seminar featuring Fintan Mullan, Executive Director and Gillian Hunt, Genealogist, that will be FREE. More information on this seminar as well as a downloadable registration form can be found at www.tngs.org. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis, so reserve your seat soon!

As I was reviewing their website, http://www.ancestryireland.com, I was impressed with the databases they feature. Some of their records are “pay per view” and some are free; a majority of the databases are for members only of the Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild. Some titles of the “pay per view” and the free databases are:

Pay-Per-View

• Irish Birth/Baptism Records – Co. Antrim & Co. Down
• Irish Marriage Records – Co. Antrim & Co. Down
• Irish Death/Burial Records – Co. Antrim & Co. Down
• Northern Irish Gravestone Inscriptions
• Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800

Free

• Graveyards in Ulster
• Members’ Research Interests
• Distribution of Surnames in Ireland, 1890 (Matheson’s Special Report)
• Parliament Election Results 1692–1802
• Statutes passed by the Irish Parliament 1692-1800

They also have a section of PDF eBooks both for sell and free. Their free eBooks are:

• Exploring the DNA of Irish and Scottish surnames and possible ties to Niall and the Uí Néill kindred
• My Roots: Tracing your Belfast Ancestors
• The 6th Connaught Rangers: Belfast Nationalists and the Great War
• In search of Sperrins Ancestors
• Belfast & Nashville

If you are lucky enough to be in the Germantown, Tennessee area on March 15, 2014, we invite you to the Tennessee Genealogical Society’s Seminar. But, if distance keeps you away, take advantage of their educational and informative website. You are also invited to visit these Facebook pages:

Ulster Historical Foundation’s Facebook Page

Tennessee Genealogical Society’s Facebook page