Newfoundland Research Tour--St. John's, Newfoundland

July 12, 2009 - July 19, 2009

Discover your Atlantic Canada family history with NEHGS in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Join expert genealogists at St. John’s premier facilities, including the Provincial Archives – “The Rooms,” the Maritime History Archive at Memorial University, and the Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. Together these repositories hold vital records, church records, all census records, voter lists, probate, and land grants, the Keith Matthews collection (list of all people who worked in fishery from 16th century to 1850), ship lists, crew lists, logbooks, Irish and English parish records and original newspapers of Newfoundland.  

PROGRAM SCHEDULE  

Sunday, July 12
After 3pm Check-in at Sheraton Hotel (formerly the Fairmont Hotel) 
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar Reception, Sheraton Hotel (formerly the Fairmont Hotel)
7:00-9:30pm Welcome Dinner, Sheraton Hotel (formerly the Fairmont Hotel)

Monday, July 13
9:45am  Bus Departure
10am-11am Orientation, FHSNL
11:30a-12:30p Orientation, MHA
1pm-2pm Lunch
2pm-3pm Orientation, The Rooms
4pm-5pm Lecture: “Finding Your Newfoundland Ancestors.”

Tuesday, July 14
8:30am-9:30am Lecture
9:45am  Bus Departure
10am-5pm Personal Research & Consultations

Wednesday, July 15
8:30am-9:30am Lecture
9:45am  Bus Departure
10am-9pm Personal Research & Consultations

Thursday, July 16
9:45am  Bus Departure
10am-5pm Personal Research & Consultations

Friday, July 17
9:45am  Bus Departure
10am-5pm Personal Research & Consultations
6pm-9pm Reception & Dinner, Sheraton Hotel (formerly the Fairmont Hotel)

Saturday, July 18
10am-12pm St. John’s City Tour
2pm-4pm Whale Watch and Puffin Island Tour

Sunday, July 19
Before 12pm Check-out of Sheraton Hotel (formerly the Fairmont Hotel)

GENEALOGISTS

MARIE DALY is director of the library at NEHGS. Her research expertise includes Irish immigration to Newfoundland and emigration to Prince Edward Island. She had extensively researched the Darcy (later Dorsey) and Ryan families, from which she descends, and has published a Dorsey genealogy. Marie is past president and cofounder of The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) and has researched, lectured, and published in the field of Irish genealogy for more than thirty years. 

DAVID ALLEN LAMBERT is the Online Genealogist at NEHGS.  More than half of David’s ancestry hails from Atlantic Canada.  He has led the research tours from NEHGS to New Brunswick, and to Nova Scotia.  His paternal great grandmother was born at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland in 1858, being descended from an English family who settled in Newfoundland in the mid-18th century.  The last of his family actually left Newfoundland in 1911.  David has over 25 years experience researching the records of Atlantic Canadians, and first hand experience working in the archives in St. Johns.  

JUDY LUCEY is assistant archivist at NEHGS. Judy's Newfoundland research interests include Irish migration and settlement patterns, the early history and settlement of Newfoundland (ca. 1610-1836), the communities of the eastern Placentia Bay district and the family surnames of Foley, Walsh, O'Keefe, O'Brien, Murphy, Greene, and Tobin.